a book by an author who uses a pseudonym (2017 Challenge)

[Christina]

a book by an author who uses a pseudonym

[Christina]

I'm moving this here from it's previous "story within a story listing":
I think I am going to put by V.E. Schwab by V.E. Schwab under this one. She writes as V.E. Schwab when the books are for adults and Victoria Schwab when the books are for YA.

The story starts in the present in a graveyard. We are listening in on a conversation between Victor and Sydney and, to fill us in on what led to the current events, we then flashback ten years to when Victor was attending Lockland University. The story continues to flip back and forth until the night after and then we switch over to Eli's perspective for a while.

This isn't your typical superhero book- if you've read reviews claiming it was a superhero book- so take that with a grain of salt. It is well-written, has a fantastic array of characters, and it's less "good v. evil' and more 'shades of people,' or 'shades of bad people.' I really liked this one.

[Melissa]

Ah good ol' Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain. This was the second book of his I read this year and The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine was BY FAR my favorite of the two. The story BEHIND the story of The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine is better than A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (in my humble opinion).

According to editor's note, a scholar was researching food-related entries in the Mark Twain Papers archive and unearthed this long-lost fragment, once a bedtime tale for Twain's children, all because of the mention of "oleomargarine" (often shortened to "oleo" or "margarine," depending on the area). As luck would have it, Twain did not have extensive writings about bread spreads, but instead possessed the makings of a grand children's story.

With fairy tale logic and the works of the Steads behind it, this was a fun book to read!