The Left Hand of God by Paul HoffmanMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This is a tricky one. It started out really dark and violent and intriguing. Almost like a more intense, contemporary dystopian remake of a Dickens novel Oliver Twist, maybe, or Nicholas Nickelby. It had the right idea of cruelly mistreated boys finding another path to a happier life. And the character, Cale, never lost his intrigue for me. But I felt like the story and the whole plot sort of just...died. It began with an air of mystery and thrill, and a cat-and-mouse chase, and then devolved into your typical kingdom-encompassing dystopian war against the self-righteous oppressors. It stopped being an interesting inner battle of Cale trying to figure out who he would be as a free man. And the story never addressed the original mystery of what Cale saw in his captivity that triggered him to finally make his escape. Hoffman sort of wrote the story like that incident didn't matter anymore. But it should have. So it all left me just sort of dissatisfied with what could have been a really cool story.
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