The Book Censor's Library started out as a poignant commentary on censorship, but faltered at the ending. Overall, I do recommend it. The literary references were quite enjoyable and the writing was so captivating. I enjoyed most of the characters and loved that the protagonist fell into the unlikely/unwilling hero type. It does have intriguing commentary on the state of the world and censorship, about how we need to experience imagination in order to be human. My fiancee kept calling this "The Giver, but with imagination instead of color" and I don't think she's wrong. 

My biggest issue with this and why it's not 5 stars is

The meta-ness of having the writer write his story that was the book we as the audience are currently reading did not work and felt like a gimmick. I was also so disappointed that the daughter died, especially because she was killed off in such an asinine way with so little focus on it. It started out so strong then took a nosedive. I also thought that the way the author described the bookseller was so
woman written by man" and I was shocked to find out this was written by a woman. Maybe she meant it to be commentary on sexism and to make the book censor more flawed, but it just felt weird and out of place to me.