The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here!
Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.
The Question of the week is: Which plot twist is your favorite?
Essentially, the answer boils down to ‘the one I didn’t see coming’. It gets very boring when you’re like 10 minutes into a movie, or a couple of chapters into the book and you’ve worked it out already. That takes all the fun out of the storytelling.
Unless of course, the whole point is that the viewer knows and is watching the characters figure it out – but that’s a whole different thing, a completely different story.
There are, of course, a couple of caveats – I love the ones where you didn’t see it coming, but once it’s been revealed, you realise the foreshadowing was there all along, like in The Sixth Sense. When you rewatch it, it’s SO obvious and you wonder how you missed it the first time. THAT I love.
But what I do not like is when it feels like a plot twist has been thrown in for the sake of it. It comes out of nowhere, it makes no sense and it feels a little bit blah.
UNLESS it is so utterly fucking batshit that it becomes completely wonderful.