Monday Memes

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Today's question:
Do you prefer character-driven stories, or plot-driven stories?

My Answer:
I would say both, however, the characters have to be life like and believable first and foremost no matter what the plot is.  Especially if it is a story line of relationship dynamics.  But then if a book does have the elements of characters that one can relate to, but the plot  goes nowhere, what good are these life like characters.  I have read a couple of these books recently and even though I understood what the author was trying to convey with their characters, the books' plot was flat and I struggled through them.  So I think they have to be of equal proportion. 

What about you?  What do you think?  Characters or plots?

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