A review by conprimo
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman

4.0

This book was very good in that I found it easy to pick up. I read two chapters in the first sitting, on my lunchbreak. They weren't short chapters which I suppose shows how easy it was to fall into this world. At that point I thought I was going to give this book 5 stars, however there were a couple of things about it that stopped that.

Firstly there's the random throwing in of made up words which don't actually seem to make sense.

Secondly there's Idriss Pukke who I couldn't understand the point of.

Spoiler

Finally there was the ending. I was so disappointed with the ending, although it was always built up to go the way it did the battle was not won by the army I was rooting for. I was hoping that the Materazzi would win and Cale would have redeemed himself for the good of everyone, I suppose that sets the second book up in a less satisfying way.

Despite the factors of this book which I wasn't so keen onI would definitely recommend picking it up. I've certainly picked up the second book in the trilogy and am really looking forward to seeing where it leads.