Series
Thomas Cale
Paul Hoffman · 4 novels · 2010–2021
Paul Hoffman's Thomas Cale series opens with The Left Hand of God, following a boy raised by a brutal religious military order who escapes into a wider world he's been kept ignorant of. The subsequent books, The Last Four Things, The Beating of His Wings, and The White Devil, follow Cale as the skills that order trained into him make him useful, and dangerous, to larger powers. It's a bleak, war-driven coming-of-age arc rather than a conventional chosen-one fantasy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Left Hand of Goddarkest
- The Last Four Thingsbrightest · calmest
- The White Devilmost intense