#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have prologues in any of your writing? How do you feel about them?

In my recent WIP I have a short prologue from a third-person omniscient POV. It introduces the location and a death, which is the catalyst that brings the reader to meet the MC in chapter one from her first-person POV.

Prologues are hit and miss. Succinct ones which nicely fit the main story work for me. I don’t like ones used as irrelevant info dumps or make me invest in a irrelevant character POV. 

 #WritersCoffeeClub Do you have prologues in any of your writing? How do you feel about them? (Cont..)

One poor example I read is where a prologue was in the first-person POV of a character. As a reader, I want to get invested with the first person I meet in the story. I want to sympathise and understand their motives. In chapter one, I discover the prologue character is actually the main villain. I felt cheated and struggled to get behind the book’s hero after that.