I however can be seduced by aesthetics, style, and rollicking good yarn-ness, and people to fall in love with, even if they have no wings. Or psychic powers. although that would probably make them better.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time got past my fairly stringent filters on non-supernatural fiction. As did Kavalier and Clay, though I found myself exhausted by the end of it and had that lit fic taste in my mouth. ;) Both stories about very self-conscious storytellers (that is, conscious of the fact they are telling a story.) What a coincidence.