I found this book enjoyable, but I think I was expecting more from it. It was written well and the story flowed. Will be waiting for the next one.

A very enjoyable novel, unusual and entertaining but with a darkness underlying the humour. I kept getting Nan and Ana confused, and maybe this was the intention, though ultimately they revealed distinct characteristics. There are many well-drawn characters despite a somewhat cartoonish background. The only part I was not enthralled by was the ending. I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't that. Nevertheless, a great read and one I recommend.

First time reading this author. I did enjoy this book even though it was set in a fantasy world, which is not my usual read.
The characters were brilliant and enjoyed reading how all their lives fit together. Lots of detail was given too.
The story unfolds at a slow pace with twists to keep you reading, some predictable. It was easy to visualise what was happening as you read along.
Overall it was a good story. I loved the title and the book cover design. I would recommend this book and keep my eye out for more from this author.
Thanks to #NetGallery #HodderAndStoughton for an arc of #TheLibrarySuicides in exchange for an honest review

I wondered and looked forward to reading and giving an honest review of this book, but it wasn’t quite what I had expected. Yes it is set in a library where they are trying to do away with hard copies of books and only keep those they feel should be kept as digital copies only. The twins set out to avenge their mother’s suicide as they felt Eben was responsible for driving her to do it. Sorry, but I found it slow and repetitive in places, although I could picture the story as it unfolded. I couldn’t wait for it to be finished, hoping for a better ending.

I really like the concept. I kind of liked the plan. Not as much just how long it took to unwrap it..
Overall it was a good story. I was getting confused with the twins at times. It felt that some details should've been left out. But in the meantime I felt that certain events and decisions could do with a bit more detail.
The ending was perfect. I really didn't want this kind of ending, but it's the only logical way to end things.
You get a weird feeling of satisfaction while feeling incredibly unsatisfied as you finish that last page and put the book down. But the aftertaste stays with you for a while.

Thank you NetGalley for opportunity to read this book.

The Library Suicides is a book of family - in particular, siblings mourning the loss of their mother.

It is however, much more than that it's about anger, revenge, and holding to hostage the patrons of a national library.

Whilst I enjoyed this book there was something that stopped me loving it (but I can't say what).

I'd definitely recommend this book and will be keeping my eyes open for more of Fflur's writing.

Not really my thing, fantasy. I did not connect to the characters and found the book heavy going. Different to what I had expected from the information
Thanks to Net Galley for the ARc, unfortunately this one was not for me

A writer Elena Oodig commits suicide and a critic Eben is held indirectly responsible. Elena’s strange twin daughters Ana and Nan want revenge. A quirky tale with very dark humour from the first page that takes place in the near future in a library. The events take place over one day with each chapter describing their perspectives. There is a back story of life after the Great Sickness where paper is no longer used for fear of germs and books are consigned to e versions. The characters are well written, especially hapless Dan the security guard. Entertaining and intriguing in equal measure.

I really struggled with this story. I didn't take to any of the characters and the whole story seemed very wierd. I wondered if it was me or the story but I felt very uncomfortable.

Thanks to NetGalley and Hodder & Staughton for ARC.
Thanks also to Flour Dafydd for writing this haunting, complex, sometimes baffling novel that meditates on family, sex, loss, love and what happens to memory and truth when our history is digitised and sanitised. What should be kept? Who decides? In those decisions, what else is lost?

The plot centres on twins, Ana and Nan, offspring of a famous author in a small country overshadowed by its larger neighbour. The twins work in the highly secure national library, where their job is to secure and protect the written heritage of the nation, including their mother's legacy.
A critic of their mother's work has long craved access to the famous writer's archive, and when his request is finally granted, his excitement leads him to forget to question 'why'? and 'why now?'. The series of events that unfold over the course of a day in the library shows secrets unfurling, plans unravelling, relationships collapsing and catastrophes snowballing.
This is witty, often wryly funny, with very dark, serious themes underlying it. I thought about it for quite some time afterward.

This is the story of Ana and Nan who are twins living in a dystopian world who want to get their revenge on a reviewer who they blame for their novelist Mothers death. Although this book is very well written I found it quite hard to keep my interest. It was certainly different though and it did have a couple of twists. I think that this just wasn't my kind of book but I think there are many others that would love this genre.

Amongst the present slew of new novels written during lockdown periods, The Library Murders has to be one of the cleverest.
The location for this novel is never revealed in the story, although residents of a certain principality are going to have no trouble identifying it, and it’s not explicit but the ‘great sickness’ is surely an alternative name for the Covid-19 pandemic. It really is a clever satire, taking in the timid, some say over-the-top, lockdown restrictions placed by the regional government of this country, used in the story to effect all sorts of further restrictions and curtailments of enjoyment of the characters’ normal lives.
Constantly comparing their lives with the freedoms enjoyed in the ‘next-door country’, the characters are accepting the complete loss of physical books (banned because they’re unhygienic), the men are putting up with a revaluation of their very meaning (compulsory sperm donation for every man with no spouse).
At the centre of the literary life of this nation is the National Library – a hub of forward-thinking, technologically-driven authoritarianism. The protagonists – the orphaned twins of a highly successful author – are struggling to make sense of their life without their single parent, and their focus on their jobs at the National Library begin to take a sinister turn when they determine to take revenge on their mother’s greatest critic.
The story takes place almost entirely within the library and, big building though it is, it feels quite claustrophobic, adding tension to the situation and compounding the despair of the library staff and users when they find themselves in the middle of a desperate situation.
The plot contains plenty of twists, and from midway I really had no idea where it was going. Some readers may find the ending ultimately unsatisfying, but it seems fitting for this dystopian world where the skewed views of politicians and a few academics go unchallenged by the frightened population and ‘normal’ free-thinking folk.

I managed to read this book although I quickly realised it wasn’t a style I would normally read.
It’s set in a fantasy world where printed books are now banned as paper is a precious commodity. Famous writer Elena commits suicide after a bad review of her books and her twin daughters, Ana and Nan, who work in the national library, find a way to seek revenge on the critic they think is responsible for their mother’s death.
It all goes horribly wrong and there are several twists in the story along the way.

Nan and Ana have a plan. Unfortunately it doesn't quite go as they imagined but that makes for a better story.
The twins are trying to avenge their mothers death. She was an author, there's a literary critic and a library so quite a bookish setting. Other than that the setting is odd, it's a little dystopia, perhaps an alternative present or the near future.
I wanted to keep reading to find out what happened but it didn't entirely grip me.

Thank you to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for a copy of this book.

Identical twins Nan and Ana are left reeling after their mother, Elena's suicide. They want revenge on the literary critic, Eben who they deem responsible due to his constant criticism of her work.

Eben requests access to Elena's diaries in the National Library, when Nan and Ana work, in attempt to clear his name. With Eben in the library Nan and Ana start their carefully planned revenge plot; the plan, however, quickly unravels.

This is a thriller with a dystopian setting; while I enjoyed the thriller aspect, with all it's twists and turns, I found the world building lacking.

This book is utterly breathtaking. Set in a world so different to our own, and yet so heartbreakingly similar, it sinks its claws into you and refuses to let go. A unique, imaginative and wonderfully pacy thriller.

The premise of this book sounded good on paper, however this was not the case for me. Twins, Ana and Nan blame a critic, Eban for their mothers suicide and they plan their revenge. Set in a dystopian future in a library after many pandemics they set their plan in motion.
Slow moving and over long at times I found that I skipped a lot. to get to the end.
Thank you to NetGalley and Hodder and Stoughton for the advance copy of this book.

Twins Ana and Nan had a plan. After the loss of their mother, someone had to pay and today was the day.

Eben had finally been granted permission to read the author Elena Oodig’s personal diaries that had been stored in the national library to keep them safe. He plans to write her biography and find out information to clear his name.

Ben has enjoyed getting to know the woman at his job in the national library. He’s done things in preparation for them finally spending time together including setting up the security system so it won’t know he’s busy with her.

Follow the four people as revenge is attempted and secrets are unearthered.

It was quite a different book that took me a while to get in to. I didn’t really find the characters to be very likeable but I’m pretty sure that is specifically how they were written. It was interesting to read about a time after a great sickness that sounded very reminiscent of our own covid pandemic although thankfully we haven’t gone to the extremes they have in the book and still have the use of books and paper. A good read with an interesting twist.

A hard book for me to review because although I loved the idea of the book I found it a difficult book to lose myself in. A dystopian novel set mainly in a library, where there are no longer books as the Government have decided digital is best. Following their mother's suicide, identical twins, Nan and Ana decide to take revenge on the critic they feel caused their mother to kill herself.
The writing style flows but sadly the book wasn't for me

I found the storyline, about twins Ana and Nan who both work in a library, quite slow and turned out for a difficult read.