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What elements are, in your opinion, necessary to make a good book? (literature.cafe)
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Is it interesting characters? Or believable motivations? Maybe writing style? Is the world building?

And how likely are you to enjoy a book that doesn’t fit your own criteria?

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[–] Aika@literature.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

Characters that are written consistently, so that if they do something that is 'out there' later down in the story, the writing would have shown before hand how they got to that place.