 Hello, I'm here today dressed as a 16-year-old who gets bullied by everyone else in the chess club to tell you guys All about breach of peace which was a new novella just released by fellow booktuber Daniel Green and I think it's pretty good This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long So fun story while I was trying to get a copy of this I Bought it or rather pre-ordered it from Amazon like a month ago And then I saw everyone else was just releasing reviews already So I assumed they got arcs and I was just like, okay, I guess you just sent out a bunch and I wasn't on the list and then I saw that For whatever reason Amazon was telling me that it's gonna take until May to get the physical copy So I was like, oh, okay, let's not do that then I canceled it and I just pre-ordered the Kindle Edition but then Amazon said no no your order is Actually going to be here much sooner than that. We're just saying it's late because reasons And I can't cancel the order. So I guess enjoy the extra royalties Also, I could have gotten an art copy if I had just asked but I didn't know that at the time So here I am anyways breach of peace is a very short Story like like I said, it's a novella and it's actually part of a planned trilogy of novellas which is supposed to lead into a bigger series which Admittedly is a really cool idea. I don't think I've ever seen a series structured that way and It remains to be seen how well it works but I think if nothing else that is a really cool idea and I want to give points for originality and Basically, the storyline here is just that there is this police detective named Clid or Clid I'm actually not sure how to say that who comes in to investigate after an entire noble family is found brutally murdered and their Bodies mutilated and it's pretty clear this was meant to send a message But like who's sending it and why I realized just a little while ago that this kind of feels like the prologue to a story But it's just stretched out to a full novella and that might sound like a criticism, but it's really not I think it's actually a good idea because there's a lot of prologues and stuff like say the first game of thrones book You know we get to the audience gets to see like okay The white walkers are coming then they're not good and there's these guys north of the wall Who are supposed to fight them, but they're not prepared for it and they're not very good at it And we just get introduced to this one character who's there only briefly and then he dies And so we as an audience get into the world a little bit we understand the threat that the characters are gonna face and It's just a good way to get us right into the thick of things and get us interested And this does basically the same thing But we actually get to spend time with the characters as they're investigating and everything so we actually still get a little bit attached to them and so that I would I at least was more interested in the story and after this I'm Way more interested in seeing where it goes than if this whole thing had been condensed into like 12 pages. I'll say right now that this is the best youtuber book I've ever read That's not a high bar to clear But like I said this this one is actually enjoyable like that I do like this one before this the best youtuber book ever read was probably Shadow of the Conqueror if you saw my review of that, you know, I just kind of thought it was okay And honestly my review of it was a little kinder than it probably should have been Because while there is some stuff in there that I really think is really cool There's also stuff in there that is extremely stupid and extremely clumsy and extremely amateurish, so It just kind of evens out whereas breach of peace overall is very solid I think I think the story is structured pretty well like we have this mystery at the beginning We want to know what's going on. I think the characters are all pretty good Like we have Clid clid however you say that her husband some of the other inspectors and stuff and they all have at least a little bit of personality to them and They uh, I don't know exactly how to put this but they're not Exaggerated characters. I think it's the best way I can think to phrase it like in a lot of stories Most of the main characters at least will have one or two very Exaggerated qualities like way beyond what a normal person would be, you know larger than life you could say whereas in this pretty much every character we see is Pretty much a normal person But they still feel like a fully realized individual if that makes sense like they don't have this exaggerated quality of like Oh, I'm so loyal to the state that I will cut off my own fingers and allow them to execute my son or anything like that That that has nothing to do with the book itself. That's just something I came up with off the top of my head But it's nothing like that They all still feel like regular people doing regular things that regular people would do but they're still caught up in these Extraordinary circumstances and so that is still neat to me I don't know how to talk about the setting exactly because we don't get that much info on it It seems kind of like Victorian England almost in a lot of ways plus there is some magic off in the background, but that doesn't play as big a role in this story and There's some hints that the what's going on out there is a lot different than it first appears like there are some hints in like the way their government is structured and The way the world works and just things like that I don't I don't even know how to quite explain it because we don't get that much info on it And it looks really cool, but I just wish we had more there You know like if you're gonna spend three entire novellas just building up to the main story I would say take advantage of the time you're using and like really get us into this world really get us involved with it really let us step in and walk around and Maybe the next two will deal with that I can't say for certain But that is like one thing in here that I would say is a bit disappointing and there's very little else in here that I would call a problem like I was kind of annoyed at how quickly the ending came Like it just kind of felt like oh that's over and I guess I have to wait for The next novella to know what's going on and in fact I'm probably gonna wait until the second and third ones come out and then just read them together So I'm not waiting as long and there's one scene near the end where Basically Cleet is running away from something and she runs into some total strangers who go to a lot more trouble to help her then maybe it just we seemed weird to me that they would go to that much trouble and Also, you could just cut that scene out and it really wouldn't change anything so I'm not sure why it was there and it did bother me a bit and The only other thing that I can really comment on is The writing itself the pros I think is generally pretty good like it's certainly better than Pretty much every other youtuber book I've read like the last one I read was Zenith and that one just felt like bad fanfiction a lot of the time and before that There was Shadow of the Conqueror which while I didn't think it was terrible the writing itself felt like bad fiction almost all of the time like It just was not good. Whereas this is pretty good. Yes Except for a few points where it just feels awkward and maybe could have used another run through like for example There's one part part where they're describing this thing called an anointed and they describe it as quote a demigod created by God Which just that's just a weird awkward way of phrasing it because you're using the same word twice in a sentence and I'm not exactly sure what it means But it's it's just it is not a good way of putting it and there are a few little moments like that throughout the book But overall it is solidly written I didn't really have any issues telling what was going on and Well one really really nitpicky thing is that Cleed's name is weird Not because it's weird on its own like I've read fantasy before you can have weird stuff in there. That's fine But it's weird because her name feels very foreign Whereas everyone else in the story has names like Sam and Chapman which feel they sound English So I'm not sure why her name was different or if there was any purpose to that at all And there was no explanation given really so I Don't know that just bothered me overall though breach of peace pretty solid start by First-time author. I think that especially for a self-published first-time author because the track record for those is just not great But I think Daniel did a pretty good job here. I am looking forward to reading the next couple of novellas Which lead into the main series? It remains to be seen how good the series as a whole is but I think this at least as a prologue is a Really good start and that's about all so Buy my merchandise Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Are you already subscribed consider becoming a channel member? 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