It's time for the Book Blog Hop! Here's the official description:
The first iteration of the Book Blogger Hop, which was started in March 2010 by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books, ended on December 31, 2012. On February 15, 2013, Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer reintroduced the hop with Jennifer's approval. The hop will begin on a Friday of each week and end on a Thursday of the following week. Every week, there will be a prompt with a book-related query. The aim of the blog hop is to provide bloggers with an opportunity to follow other blogs, discover new books, make friends with other bloggers, and gain new followers for their own sites.
This week's question is:
🐇 "Are you more of a plot-driven reader or a character-driven reader? " 🐇
Now this is a tough question...I'm gonna have to go with plot-driven and here's why: if the plot is amazing, but the main character is not fleshed out enough, I won't mind that much because I'll still be at the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next.
On the other hand, if the character is amazing and we're in their head, listening to their innermost thoughts...but nothing happens? It'll probably end up a 3-star read for me BECAUSE I NEED THE PLOT. I need drama, plot twists and something, anything happening.
That's why, most of the time, if the plot is slow-paced, I won't like it. Coming of age stories are also not my favorite genre. What can I say? I live for the adrenaline 😂😂 It's the same when it comes to movies and TV shows - of course I want a layered character, but I need something going on as well.
If I pick up a book and most of the text on the page is inner monologue...yeah, I'm not gonna enjoy it that much 😂 Of course, that doesn't have to always happen. From time to time, I'll pick up a "slower," more character-driven book on purpose, as a palatte cleanser or because I suddenly developed an urge to read something like that. Doesn't happen often, but still.
In the end, both are equally important and the best books for me have been ones where these two things were almost equally present. You have some crazy plot lines, but a lot of the book is also reserved for the character's thinking and development.
Which one do you prefer?
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