I love a book with good characters and a plot that hooks me. I like the characters to seem human and grow as the story goes on. A couple weeks ago I found a fantastic fanfiction and I absolutely loved it because the characters in it weren't flat, boring 2-dimensional people. The writer portrayed them so realisticaly and the story focused on the characters.

I'm more of a character oriented person than plot, but I like the books I read to have an interesting plot. Apologies to any Twilight fans out there, but the story has decent or good characters, but absolutely no plot. That's a turn off for me.

This is really good thread, I'm surprised I didn't find it earlier