Booking Through Thursday: Plot or Characters?

A meme from Booking Through Thursday.

Today’s topic is “Which is more important when you read — the actual story or the characters? I’ve read books with great plots, but two-dimensional characters, and I’ve read multi-layered characters stuck in clunky stories, and I’m sure you have, too. So which would you rather focus on, if you couldn’t have both?”

I think… I’m honestly not sure… I think I’m a character person. If I like the character I will read through anything. When I finish a book I am often thinking more about the characters than the plot. However I don’t necessarily think they have to be good characters. I feel like there have been two-dimensional characters I still really liked that I have read not very well written things to find out what happens to them. I also think that if a plot is clunky enough it will stop me even if I like the characters. I have to truly LOVE them to get through a clunky plot. My biggest weakness is probably a likeable character, even a flat one, in a ship I like. Good sexual tension can make me read books that I hate after I read them…