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,
I peered from behind my textbook as Mr. Johnson droned on and on. I looked at the clock repeatedly as the minutes ticked by. Just a few more minutes, I reminded myself, growing impatient.
"Class dismissed!" Mr. Johnson said with a smile as the final bell rang. I grabbed my bag and raced to the door as a mob of teenagers crowded the doorway.
"Katie!" I turned as a small hand grabbed my wrist. "Why are you going that way?" I spun around and saw my best friend Amanda leading me to our "special" exit. I slung my bag across my shoulder and followed.
"So are you excited?" Amanda asked excitedly. She shook with excitement and rounded around the corner and out our door. Our exit was perfect except that it led right into the street. A car siren was signeled and cars flew past us as we stepped onto the road.
"Oh my god!" I screamed as a car smashed into Amanda, it froze. everything froze, except me. And that was when I knew I was something special.
Well this one is...equal part quite intriguing and yet somehow also ever so slightly confusing. Usually a prologue works best when there's a nice bit of a balance between letting the reader know about what's going on and not telling the reader much of anything at all, here I feel like we've delved a little too far into keeping things vague and as a result a few bits of context that were perhaps important are now missing.
Besides this little issue there, the bits that we can decipher from this piece that we got going on do happen to be very intriguing I think. You've done quite a neat job of building up a sense of normalcy somewhat and then shattering it quite prominently and abruptly to hint at whatever mysterious power is there to come here.
Overall, it does seem like a solid premise. All this particular piece really needs is a bit of extra context, especially for the scene this starts off with before we get to the intriguing part just to sort of give this a bit of a scene to work with 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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