Given that the book first and foremost has to be well-written, I love the unexpected in a book. If there's a plot twist or a character does something "out of character", I thoroughly enjoy that. There's nothing worse than a predictable read.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Musing Mondays
Given that the book first and foremost has to be well-written, I love the unexpected in a book. If there's a plot twist or a character does something "out of character", I thoroughly enjoy that. There's nothing worse than a predictable read.
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I totally agree with you; a different-from-the-usual plot is exactly what makes me love a book enough to recommend it!
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you don't think that predictable can sometimes be comforting? i will have to muse on that... ;-)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely agree about a plot twist, there's got to be some conflict and something unpredictable about the plot, but I would want the characters to be a little predictable - as Caite says, it's comforting and so often an author has a character do something crazy just to be a bit interesting and actually it's incongruous with the character, no?
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