Greetings!

Down below will be prompts for your Devil's Advocate Session. Please comment inline on any suggestion of mine you would like to dive deeper into, and I will reply as soon as possible. You are not forced to take any of these suggestions. I only wrote what I thought was necessary. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Grammar/Spelling--Spelling and grammar are both immaculate. I truly enjoy reading long, fluid sentences accompanied by shorter ones to highlight both the tone and mood of any given scene. Satisfactory.

Word Choice/Description--Lovely word choice and description; however, in the future, I would be careful about where exactly you place those descriptive paragraphs. Especially in the first few chapters, too much description may distract your readers and make the book seem a bit scattered and 'all over the place', which we both know it is not. After Chapters 1 & 2, this issue clears up immensely, so you may wish to peruse through the introductory chapters again and fix some things.

Characters--ROLO. I LOVE ROLO. JUST BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO BE FANCY AND PROFESSIONAL AS A REVIEWER DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T GET TO OBSESS ABOUT ADORABLE DOGGOS.

All jokes aside, I really love how you really fleshed out Avery as a character from the very first sentences. She is realistic, poised, and quite relatable. 

I also loved the Avery-Reed interactions from the very start, and on the surface, they seem very different, but their similarities soon become very apparent. 

Introduction--

I see what you mean about the first two chapters being a bit of a prelude for the plot. I have been mulling this over, and have come up with two solutions. Feel free to use one, use both, or completely ignore this if both do not suit your interests.

Solution #1 (Major) : Completely move the timeline forward. By this, I mean to start the book the second that gunshot fires in the third chapter. Starting a book with an action scene is very attractive, as the reader feels a compulsive urge to see what happens next. Hit them hard and leave no time to react. And then slowly introduce the true extent of the situation through Avery's thoughts, like, what about Kennedy? or something of the like.

Solution #2 (Minor): Maybe you could rearrange the first two chapters, and the way dialogue is present there. By this I mean the starting line. At first, I was completely thrown off, and then I realized that the phone conversation was very minor. Starting lines are important, and whatever information you throw at the reader in the very first line will stick with them for the entirety of the book.

And that's about it! Discuss any, all, or none of these comments with me on the chains I post on each paragraph! Good luck!