Enjoyed the transposed world

Wasn't sure at first but found myself enjoying the alternative world with both familiar and different timeliness and events. TC remains an excellent character.

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Dark dark cosmic accident

Great book if you don’t mind and anti hero or except reality delivered in fiction.. an intelligent alternate past or future who knows..
enter into it with no expectations if you listened to the previous books don’t like to put words into an authors thoughts but I would hate to be stuck in his head

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Enjoyable

Different from previous entries in the series, but if you're a fan it's perfectly enjoyable.

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Excellent in every way

The original trilogy were among the first audio books I listened to, having now been through 100’s, I revisited the series at the start of the year to see if they still ranked among my favourites with so many more to compare them to. After completing them, finding that I still love the writing and the narration and rank the series as highly as anything I have read or heard, I was amazed to find that a new book had been made and continued the story of Thomas Cale.

Initially I wasn’t sure if I liked the change of pace and setting but as the characters grew on me, and the anticipation of the big secret reveal started to build I found I enjoyed this as much as the rest of the tales of Cale. Paul Hoffman is such a great writer, I would read anything he produces in the future. The way the style of his writing changes so much for this book, but I find it equally enjoyable as his original three books is almost unique to me. The only authors I have enjoyed so much, that are capable of changing their literary style in this way are Joe Abercrombie and Stephen King. I can’t this recommend audiobook enough.

Sean Barrett is simply my favourite audiobook narrator.

Stop reading these reviews, if you have not already listened to or read the Left Hand of God Trilogy, do so now. If, you enjoyed those, this is just as great and fresh as they were at the time of release. Don’t start with the “White Devil”, you will be lost and if you haven’t read the original books for sometime I would revisit them before starting this or some of the context that makes this book so great will be missed, if your memory is as crappy as mine.

Either way please purchase so Paul will continue to write and I can continue to enjoy his work.

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My favourite out of the Four!

I have listened to all of Paul Hoffman’s books and this one is so worth the wait!! Thoroughly entertaining it is so full with rich characters that if you’re not used to audio books you would need to listen to it a couple of times. As the characters have been so well developed in the 20year span between the 3rd book and the 4th. With old stories twisting in between the new ones a whole new universe is born! Truly brilliant! Sean’s accents are excellent as well delivering the story just right. Definitely a work of fictional art - excellent gift especially for the macabre ones!!

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Excellent in all respects

Having read all the past entries in this series I was looking forward to this immensely. I cannot help but wish that Cale would get it together a little more, as the villainy of the first books was always the most fun, never the less this is a exceptionally well written book. If you like the first law books, this series will scratch your itch

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very different from the previous books

this book was very different from the previous 3 books in the series although I am not sure if that's only because I listened to this one on audible. there are certainly words used that made me uncomfortable to listen to on the cars audio system when driving anywhere there was a crowd. that being said it was still a really good alternative history, a twisting of events which actually happened to fit a fantasy story

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A truly fantastic follow up to the Left Hand of God trilogy

If you really liked The Left Hand of God, and maybe wondered what happened to him, you’ll stand a very good chance of absolutely loving this! IMHO even funnier, sadder and more thought-provoking than the originals.

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More to come?

Being enthralled by the first 3 books it is no surprise that any additional tales are greatly welcome. it could have been poorly written and conceived, however, it was neither. The story poses many questions of behaviourism, bobo dolls and the like, but, this aside, it was that most surprising of things, a rattling good story that left me wondering where it will lead next. A warning though, the story very nearly had the trappings of wokeism, a poison so powerful it would kill my future purchases, yet it diverted itself away from this most fatal of traps.

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I loved the original trilogy

I loved the original Left hand of God trilogy,
I've read it 3 or 4 times.
So when I saw a new book was out that followed on from the trilogy (I kept checking for years to see if Paul Hoffman would release a new book) I was really excited to read this.
Even though I thought a new book to be unnecessary I was still very excited. but what a massive let down, just a totally dreadful book. Very unsatisfying story, awfully written & a book I could have done without waisting my time on. 1 out of 10. but Great narrator.

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