Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
Anyway let's get right to it,
The Mysterious Girl
Here I am, alone again I've lost my wife, my children, but I have a question. Why and how? WHy must I be blammed for this insident I did not do. How did it happen? But this wasn't the first time I was alone I was alone oen more time, It was my childhood. The memories came back to my mind, memories, not good memories. I grew up on a farm in England somewhere, with my family. I had a mother, father, one sister, and two brothers. I did have two sister but one disappeared, lost, never found still to present day. I woke up oen mornign the caps were there at my family's little farm. My oldest brother Brian who was fourteen at the time had told me those cops were dangerous. They carried guns around just to shoot people for no reason, they could whip them out and shoot you prefectly between the eyes before you could blink. Then my mother and father came in and told the family (Brian, Myself, Moose, and Tilly) about Leanna's so called death. The cops found a body in our neightbor's field, the Leavegoods. They hated us children except Brian he was a smoother, cutting his body into everybody's mind and heart. I knew she would never go into the Leavegood's yard, she was my best friend, a sister. My parents believe the brothes should be closers than a brother and a sister, so we played along. We sent hate back and forth to each other to have approval of our parents. Still have an approval doesn't mean having a loving approval. They hated me, their favorite was Brain, the first, the smartest, the handsomest son. Anyway, my sister knew about the leavegoods they wished revenge on us, I have not idea why but they did they hated us just like my parents. After Leanna's disappearance Tilly the youngest, only seven, became a dull, blue, depressed child. They thought it woudl help if they moved, so we moved to Arkansas. Still she was down, nothign to do to help, a helpless little child.
Hmm, this kind of comes off as a bit of a large info dump here in this first chapter. This is probably the first time I'm recommending this, but I think this story could do with a prologue. The scene you describe here seems like a powerful scene that really needs to be shown being played out rather than just be described by a character this way. If you flesh this out into an actual scene and capture the emotions and feelings of the day here, this could make for a much powerful message here. As it at the moment, we found ourselves with a giant first paragraph that's a bit tough to read and it also gets a bit boring to follow when you're simply repeating events as if the news is being read rather than this being something impactful that genuinely affected everyone involved in many ways. I'm not saying this is totally devoid of emotion, its there, its just not really strong enough.
Today I have no connection with my family I lost connection with them a long time ago it would be nice to meet them again. I don't even know if my mother or father is still alive. If Tilly is still living the way she did she would have comitted sucide(?) by now. It would be nice to meet them again without my parent's judgement. My Wife is died, my children were taken by services, I live in a big empty mansion of sadness.
Hmm, see this one seems more fitting to be the first paragraph of a first chapter, although on its own it wouldn't be enough for a chapter. It still does manage to be pretty good at getting a reader's attention thought and injects enough backstory there to make for an interesting opening without going towards a boring. Soo...yeah, I'd say you've got the makings of something quite good here, but this current form of the first chapter doesn't really quite work out, it needs a little bit more fleshing out and also a bit of rearranging for things to work out fully here.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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