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Don't know where, but I'd heard that a novel can have one basic issue that requires the reader to suspend disbelief:
...the anal-retentive CEO and the ex-hippy free spirit can fall in love and complete each other (rather than pick each other to pieces)
...humanity will be able to find a propulsion system that allows them to travel the distant reaches of the galaxy (rather than the ship arriving generations after it left)
...good always triumphs over evil (rather than the tyrant getting to keep all the money, women, and power)
But if you try to pile on one improbable thing after another, sooner or later the reader's going to throw the book against the wall with a heart-felt, "Oh, come on!"
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