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Get them hooked with a few of your best chapters, like Fishing and the chapters around Alina's duel and Katerin's promotion..

One more thought.  I'm not very far into Randall Krzak's Bedlam but I'm left wondering how much the characters of the first chapter will figure in subsequent chapters.  If the answer is 'not much' or 'not much, except for one of them' I would suggest calling the chapter a prologue, simply because the different characters make it a different-but-connected story.

Another oddity: when I enter an in-line comment on an italicized word, the comment shows up italicized.  I suspect that you want the comment in the same base font and style as the main text body, but it would be nice to use the base style info from the paragraph as a whole, or from the work as a whole.

Fine-tuning, I know.

More practical, sometimes.

If you have to ask, you know that someone will give an answer you don't want.

Prologue as flashback is a contradiction in terms.  You haven't yet established a present, so you can't flash back from the established present.  A prologue used that way is history, a part of the story occuring some time before the rest.

Also the scene with Frank and Voldemort opening, I think, GoF.  When you protagonist is not in the scene, he can't be your PoV character.  Look at the very first scene of the very first book.

I think that the key is that the prologue has to be story, enaging story, rather than just an info dump.  It can be the part of the story that sets up for the action, so long as the reader can feel strong potential in the setup.  But if it's a story in and of itself, so much the better.  I'm thinking now of Ellery Queen's The Finishing Stroke, which may have been meant to close the series.

Compare that with the J.J.McHugh intros in the early Queens, especially The Chinese Orange Mystery.

Sol, I have a belated auto-renumbering problem.  I didn't catch it earlier, and I can't fix it myself now.

The Sorcerers Progress: Children and Beasts has two Chapter 21's.  The second, Lunch at Logchem's, should be number 27.  While it might be possible to fiddle with other numbers to make this one accessible, I'm afraid of making things worse.  Can you set it right?

This is a writer's site.  I was offering a helpful edit.

There can be interactions between the way the message is framed for transfer over the network and the network itself.  A  network that transmits one site without difficulty can gag on another site, a site which runs fine on most networks.

Networks are immensely complicated. For self-flagelatory fun and edification you can look up the RFC's (protocol design documents) on the site of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), assuming that the FCC and the UN have not forcibly wrested technical control away from the engineers who make it all work.

Postscript: Just for giggles, here's the index page.  Thirty seconds of eye-glazing reading of titles is probably enough for any sane sophant.

Postpostscript: Here's one for those who are into (mental) pain.

Sol, here's an example of how the highlight-capture problem works:

I tried to capture everything from "In this city" to and through "price of his bones."  The capture was extended to the beginning of the paragraph, and to the space after 'bone.'.  Whether the problem lies in Windows, IE, or your web page, it prevents me from writing the comment I want on the text to which the comment appertains.

Maybe the surest solution would be to allow comments to overlap.  That would complicate both the capture and selection mechanism, but (especially with X-line format) I can see solutions.

This is a regular source of frustration to me as a reviewer.  Nor can it help the writer reviewed that I have to explain in the comment that the comment applies to text other than than highlighted.

Postscript:  The problem occurs even if I only extend the capture to the end of the paragraph.  I have to stop it after the penultimate word, whereup on the capture is extended to the last word--but not to the period ending the sentence.

This is a recurring pain in tender places.