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The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin
3.0

This is a hard one to rate so I'll sort of meet in the middle with a 3.5/5 stars.

It's sort of like a Moxie meets Henry VIII and his 6 wives. There were things I absolutely love love LOVED about this book:
1. Calling out of sexism
2. Checking men and women for slutshaming
3. Each of the women were well defined and distinctive enough that I didn't mix them up
4. The continuous addition of information causing the split in who Cleveland should believe. This specifically was done so well and gradually from the beginning
5. Cleveland's POV as a whole was consistent and solid.

My big hate? Why is Cleveland still friends with him?! It made no sense! He's a deplorable person even when he's got his "charm" on. This just kept bugging me. Especially when you have friends in both sides of arguments and/or couples breaking up, why are you standing by this guy who jumps from girl to girl? Who you see is ridiculously paranoid about everything? Charm can only do so much. He was just garbage and had absolutely no redeeming qualities to help me understand Cleveland's long-term support of him.

Pacing wise, I found the book fell a little flat somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 mark to the point I did debate DNFing it (especially because I was so frustrated with Cleveland sticking around as Henry's friend) but the last part of the book was actually really interesting and I LOVED all these women coming together to connect dots and support each other.