What are yours Best have thing(s) that you, as a reader, want in a book?
Being it fantasy or sci-fi ones.
Is it world building, level of details of characters/things/places, the story itself, how you can relate to a (main) character, other?!
And if possible, why?
For me it tends to be the story itself, of course I can relate to a character, or to the incredible details of a place somewhere. But generally speaking, i’m more intrigued to know the context and the plots of the story the author wanted to give me.
Tension and intimacy between characters.
I love the push and pull of characters with tension, how intellectual it can be, or how it can be a multi layered manifestation of their interior world and exterior pressures in ways they don’t even understand.
Conversely, when all that is stripped away and characters have unpretentious, open, vulnerable moments with one another- these moments that happen so rarely in real life and are often peak experiences.
And if there’s a juxtaposition between the two, and the plot is a metaphor for what’s going on on a human level? That’s me done.