Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
First Impression: At first glance, sounds like an awesome prologue, manages to tick pretty much all the boxes that you expect from one of these as far as I can see and its a really cool premise too.
Anyway let's get right to it,
I think the last thing any of us expected was that she would take power after the death of the king.
She was a kind woman, a strong woman. She was a woman who could possess any man, drive him to madness. She was the kind of woman who could lead an army, feed a starving child, and take a lover to her bed, all in the same moment, it seemed.
Okay, well that certainly sounds like a pretty interesting woman, hopefully that is going to be the main character, cause it looks like a pretty cool monarch there...at any rate, that's a pretty neat pitch for that character here to start this prologue off.
But she was a woman nonetheless, and a woman had never sat on the throne of Alrina. The men growled and grumbled, the women stared in awe as she passed, because she was so different. So beautiful, so kind and so wise, easily filling in after the King’s tragic death, which robbed the people of both a leader and friend. The Queen commanded the council, the laws, the army, and in the end, the kingdom itself, with no glance towards the possible lineages of the king. Her grace and beauty knew no bounds. She was clever as an old Jamed priest, and cunning as the landlord of an inconspicuous inn. She seemed to understand the pain of the people, to relate to their hardships. In a time of famine, war, and children missing from the streets, and the darkness which ensared the land, she appeared a ray of light strong enough to break the cursed fog of misfortune that hung low over the land. And so, in a way, her entrance was hated and loved in equal parts.
Okay...a lovely start there, I do see how this sort of transition appears to be unheard of in that country with no woman having ever sat on the throne but this description of how she manages to do a wonderful job with people if not outright loving it, accepting it as a majority and not creating any sort of unusual chaos with the fact that she's a woman is a wonderful touch that already makes me like the world that this story is set in. And it certainly sounds like a character like that would make for an awesome ruler.
To some, she was a goddess.
To some, a villain.
To some, she was the spark to restart the fires of the gods.
To some, she was the end of the world.
OKay, well that is a lot of version of the same person, but I do love how diverse that makes the people of the world be, it certainly gives everything in the story a bit more depth to see there are multiple opinions about this ruler here, and certainly adds to making everything seem a bit more realistic in that sense.
How was it that I, only I, would be able to see her for what she truly was? How was it that I was to become close enough to touch, and yet, so far from all that seemed important? How was it that everything I held dear would be called into questions of love, loyalty, betrayal, and deception? One thing was ultimately clear to me. The Queen meant more to me than anyone in the world. More than any man, more than any food or money or clothing. More than life. She was my hero.
A wise man once said, the higher you are, the farther you have to fall.
Okay...soo I suppose this is being told from the point of view of someone who holds the queen in very high regard, although I can't really seem to find any clues as to what the exact relationship between the two of them might be here...at any rate, this is pretty intriguing cause it looks like this is someone who would be a bit biased. And that last line, if that doesn't smell ominous...
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
Overall: Overall, a pretty solid prologue, I really do love the character of the queen here and this point of view we're getting seems pretty interesting. I'd definitely have continued reading after seeing this as the prologue.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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