The first chapter is your opportunity to hook the reader, put them into that writing trance, and make them forget they have other things to do. It is key to how the rest of your book will be received so, to do all your hard work justice, it needs to truly showcase the rest of the book.

I will examine your first chapter through a series of different lenses, and compile a report covering all the elements specific to a first chapter—as well as things like dialogue, narrative language, scene-setting, and forward momentum.