What elements are, in your opinion, necessary to make a good book?
What elements are, in your opinion, necessary to make a good book?
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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The narrative has to make sense within the bounds of the books established rules. Partly why time travel fucks shit up so much.
In theory, there are ways to make time travel work, but it’s hard to make it interesting. I don’t think I’ve read any time travel book other than Well’s.
What book did you particularly enjoy because of its following of its own rules? And the opposite: a book that doesn’t hold up to this standard?
Have you read Outlander? I think she does time travel well and it's interesting, at least if you're interested in that kind of historical fiction.
I’ll check it out, thanks!