The Girl Of Hrusch Avenue (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Brian McClellan’s debut novel, Promise of Blood, shows epic promise. One of the most well targeted complaints against it, however, is that the female characters are poorly drawn and tangential to the main story. This includes Vlora, who exists in Promise of Blood primarily to set up Taniel’s story and create conflict between him and his father, Tamas.The Girl of Hrusch Avenue is a short story set in the same world and featuring the same characters as Promise of Blood. We learn about Vlora, seeing her as an orphan child: who she is, some of why she is that way, and how she came to meet Taniel and Tamas. There was so much conflict among the three in Promise of Blood. Here we see why they initially took to each other.It’s the sort of thing a fan of Promise of Blood will love, a weak salve for the ache for The Crimson Campaign, book 2 in the Powder Mage trilogy. But it’s very limited as a short story in and of itself, neither a Thinker nor a Twister in my own taxonomy, just supplemental to the larger story. It was a good short story, but I wish it offered a little more to the backstory. It gave me good glimpses of the past and the meeting of Vlora and Taniel, but I was simply left wanting more.I would love it if there were a series of the short stories showing the development of Vlora, Tamas, and Bo (and Tamas), leading up to the new book. I think it would just add that much more depth to the story. I love seeing the history of characters in these types of short stories. However, I would still like more to the story itself.
What do You think about The Girl Of Hrusch Avenue (2000)?
Solid introduction to some characters as they are young.
—Cami89Iarina
