The Dead Queen's Club by Hannah Capin

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I picked this one up off of the "NEW" display shelf in the Teen department at work. I am a sucker for anything Tudor related, and this did NOT disappoint. It is essentially a retelling of Henry VII and his six wives, but they're all in high school, and they're girlfriends, not wives. It's also set in modern times. It was interesting to see the way the characters were set up and to recognize some of the historical places in today's world. For example, they live in the town of Lancaster. Henry is the Prom King, and his girlfriends are all his "queens", and Anna (Anne Boelyn) dies from blowing up the Tower (instead of being beheaded after being imprisoned in the tower). I enjoyed that the story was told from Anne of Cleves' point of view, because she is one of the lesser known wives (at least to me). It took me a lot longer to finish this book than it should have, not because it wasn't interesting but because I don't have the time to sit down with a print format of a book anymore and read it. Had this been in ebook form, it would have been a day's read tops. All in all it was a cute story and I would read more of Capin's work. 

4/5 Stars