I'm writing a book and I need to know what you look for most in a good book.?

Question

Before I ask for your favorite books, yes, I have read the Twilight series, so if you give that answer can you tell me what you like so much about them?

Okay, so I'm starting the book off in an animal conservation site in South Africa. The girl is the narrator and the Guy is an artist.

What do you think would make it a really good story?

Thanks!! I appreciate all of your opinions.

Answer 1

I've always found pacing to be very important in a story. A story can't be all action, but at the same time you don't want it to devolve into two hundred pages of rambling between the beginning and climax that put the reader to sleep either.

It's also important to make sure your work flows coherently between ideas since the more choppy a work is the more difficult it is to read.

Any subject will do. Books have been written about the mundane as well as the miraculous. Just give it your own voice, your own passion, and make the reader as interested in your subject as you are.

Answer 2

Something that will keep you on the edge of your seat with action, but the things they experience must show how they grow as a person.

Answer 3

Make it unusual. I want to read something that keeps me thinking about it for days after I've finished it. For example, in "Clone" by Malcom Rose, the protagonists dealt with the repercussions of cloning on society, and I wondered what really would happen if we cloned humans.

I also like realistic characters. Give them human traits, e.g. nail biting, saying "like", etc. Rowling shows characters like this.

Happy scribbles, and remember me when you've sold your first million copies!