The Left Hand Of God

As I don't want my blog to be that empty....

Currently I am reading "The Left Hand Of God" by Paul Hoffman. So far (page 270 of 500 (Penguin Books Paperback)) it is a real great fantasy book.

Thomas Cale a teenage acolyte of the Redeemers learns how to fight and how to survive on a meal called dead mans feet while being in their sanctum. As the sanctuary is not the most pleasant place to be he and 2 of his friends decide to flee from that place of gruelty, but only as something very disturbing happens within the walls. A girl, Riba, is saved by the 3 boys and the 4 of them manage to get away from the Redeemers and to escape into the next city - Memphis.
Here Cale falls into love, saves lives and learns how to eat real food. He and his friends become bodyguards of Arbelle Swan-Neck, a bewitching beauty, after saving her life. Arbelle, being afraid of Cale in the beginning, and therefore being rather unfriendly and cool, starts thinking differently about him after seeing his body, well trained but full of scars.

Review:
All in all I think, "the left hand of god" is an "ok" phantasy-book. For me, the battlescenes are a little to short, you can hardly follow what's happening. The lovestory comes to an abrupt end, seems like the author did not know what to make of the couple. Frankly, the whole ending is a drop of bitterness in an otherwise real good book.
I found some spelling and kommamistakes which make it sometimes a little difficult to read (some sentences I needed to read several times until I got the meaning) at least for me (not being a native speaker).

All things considered I give "the left hand of god" a 6 (out of 10).

Getting started

Thinking for years and years if I should create a blog I finally made a decision.

My blog will be mostly about the books I read, I will try to give a short description as well as a short review of the book.