Servant of the Crown by Paul J. Bennett
This is a review of Servant of the Crown by Paul J. Bennett. Published October 20, 2017, Amazon. I started this book because I saw the author’s Tic Tok and was surprised by the sheer number of books he’d written. I'd been trying to write a book and it inspired me. When I found out the first few books were free, I picked them up and gave them a shot. The good: Gerald is an excellent character. He had a traumatic childhood. His parents died, and then his wife and daughter died. He moved on but found himself exiled from the only life he knew because the king was an asshole. In his new position as a gardener on a county estate, he meets the exiled princess. She needed a father and he was looking for a daughter. The story worked well. It was slow but not overly tedious. The POV switched in a few chapters, sometimes in the same scene, between the two main characters, but I didn’t mind. All the writing instructions I've read say this is a major no-no, but if it works, it works. Th