So what do all amazing books have in common? All classic, award winning, time defying books all share one major point together. And that point, unsurprisingly, is that they all play with the heart strings. They make us FEEL and think in ways we've never thought or thought we would ever think. (Heh, that was a fun balanced sentence, wasn't it?)
This is something we, as readers, have to keep in mind. A plot, in a way, sets the hook in the reader. It pulls them in and gets them close, waving them around and getting them ready for capture. However, it's the emotional appeal that puts the sinker in hook, line, and sinker. That's what puts a readers thoughts from, "wow, this book is pretty interesting," to, "this book is seriously amazing."
Emotional appeal is the greatest tool for a writer. It's the bow on the present, the icing on the cake, the cherry on top. And the greatest tools for achieving this emotional connection is through character development and the climax of the plot. The more the readers get attached to the readers, the more effected they are by the climax, in which, more often then not, the main characters face some sort of emotional obstacle in which, by this point of the story, the reader can relate well. The more the readers relate to said character, the more emotional appeal they can have at the climax of the book.
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