What Makes A FANTASTIC Book?

HELLO! So, today I thought I’d share what makes a FANTASTIC read in general. Hope you can relate to this post. This is not at all what I expect from every book, obviously, just the things that contribute to a fantastic read! 

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a)FIRSTLY, I think that its really important that the plot is at a good pace. If it’s super fast, no one will know enough details, but if it’s too slow and contains TOO much information/description, it will seem boring and not interest those who prefer a good balance. 

b) This links me to the second part, having a good balance in speech and description to make a good pace throughout the book. This means that the book will be great for people who prefer description, and for those who like speech over description. 

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2) 

Good Character Development! And feeling a CONNECTION to them. 

NO BOOK IS FANTASTIC WTHOUT IT! If the character development is no good, and the characters have no depth, I feel like the book is never finished. at the end of a book, I like to feel as if I know the individual characters exactly, not just a brief over-view of them. I feel that it adds way more to the read, as you are essentially getting way more out of the book itself. 

I love to feel a deep connection to the characters. Honestly, I form connections with characters VERY quickly, and from my “fantastic reads” all these books are filled with characters that I absolutely cherish!

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The description — linking to point 1 — has to be in depth, but not too lengthy. I’m all up for a nice long paragraph, but what I’m talking about here is literally every 3 pages there is at least 2/3 of it being description of one setting. It just makes it boring af. 

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No “Block-speech”

An example:

“How will we get there?”

“The unicorns?”

“But what about Thomas the dog, we can’t leave him being, fvjeahbgl ahjsdvgaehgbkdf sdsgyvfgbf;e;jkgfbiusdgbew/kjgi;iegbekrgpYBeir;gjdbfyebwflbdlgfbreil gbriebgqybreiygbiryebgiyrqbeghbfvbyrbgreghiurefe gfibf yrbfebf ibue4g rygfwk.fbi7f urgfwbefgufbwgfi bjk ubrebguiregjekrbgebguivr.”

“jdbfiewkjdbs vdsjck rqwvuierbg ve;wk vdsuvg rbi rewgfbciwge;jekwb;fui gwef biwyefbe wgfwb ehFG CIW FBIEQ IDC GBFGF EBK DAUS FVBfeh qrgb reqirebvh ddjkzsnfoqrnguferu bghfnv;adbpiygregbieru abfowa”

Good luck understanding who is saying what when that goes on for ages. Is it just me, or when this happens, I have to go back and see who is saying what exactly. I just can’t follow it, especially when it goes on for a while. 

Can I just add: look at my pro conversation up there, maybe I should right a novel, ahaha. pro tip: when stuck for inspo, just talk about unicorns ahaha…

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5) 

No to the:
“…”, he said.

“…”, she said. For literally all of the speech. It just doesn’t make the conversation real. 

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6) 

A ship that doesn’t start with hate, or insta- love is ideal. Personally, I can deal with a bit of dislike, leading to friendship, especially in fantasy and they have to rely on each other, which results in a relationship, but I just prefer when they come together as a couple like people actually do the majority if the time in real life. 

And, I even got a bit of Ryan Gosling in my blog 🙂 

I’m also talking about friendships here too. I absolutely LOVE books that have a great friendship pair/group. It makes the book way funnier, and has an authentic feel to the book. Most books have this amazing quality, but I don’t think that I could rate a book as “fantastic” if it didn’t have good friendships in there too 🙂

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7) 

Emotions!!! This may just be me, but I love it when a book is full of internal emotions and also thought. I love it when a chapter thinks to themselves, showing how they felt about situations, especially if it has just switched to their PoV. I hate not knowing how people are feeling about big events, it makes me speculate wayyyyyy tooooo much! 

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Obviously, I do not expect all of that in one book, that would be ridiculous! These are really just some of the things that I love to have within a book, my favourite qualities or qualities that I don’t like and don’t really occur in books that I class as “Fantastic”. 

I’ve probably missed a load of things, but let me know some of the things that you love within a book, 

GWR X