Greetings from the White Walkers and the "Game of Thrones" ! I'm Tam, and I'm here to provide you some feedback.
First Impressions
This is called a chapter, so I'm not sure if it's the opening to a book, or the continuation of a book, or what. Irregardless, the light-hearted opening of this piece (in spite of the battle around the characters) is mildly disjointing compared to the overall theme. In spite of that, I found the action enjoyable, and in the brief time I knew the characters, interesting.
I have no idea where they are or who they are fighting, but it sounds bad for them.
Best Elements
The latter half. The first half of this story feels surprisingly jovial for the situation, and it's hard to get into that and a mix of battlefield happenings at the same time. But the second half is mostly business, and the tragedy that is war is easier to follow.
Suggestions
I don't know how else to put this, but you need to get more urgency in this piece. The opening starts with some of that, but discards it for favour of comedic relief. That's fine, but it has to have some of that necessary urgency still in it for me to remain invested in the battle.
Even in the end, maybe you should imply something to the main character that would indicate how much pain he must be in. Yeah, I know, shock... but still, it's so vague the way it is. Not even a tingle?
Overall
Not bad as a whole. Once I got past the time-freezing dialogue, the rest of it flowed rather well. I could see some history behind the characters. The dreadful situation they're in. The fact that one of them did not make it, and the other is never going to be the same...
The only thing I don't really know is what (and where) they were fighting.
Keep writing!
~Tam
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