I was going over what makes my favourite books, well, my favourites, and I've noticed that they tend to establish a social safe group very quickly and that social safe group stays safe. If there's a threat to part of it, then there's usually another group to retreat to.
And I've noticed I tend to put down books where a social group is loose, or there isn't a certain amount of relaxed-ness to it. There's a certain sense the character is going to end up absolutely alone and abandoned because nobody's there through thick and thin.
But obviously there's a market for these stories, since so many of them exist. Most synopses I read have, somewhere along the line, the social group completely thrown apart, betrayal, or a dark reveal.
Do you like these types of stories? Or do you prefer a safe social group that's a constant, and they face the plot together?
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