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The Last Pendragon (The Last Pendragon Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Sarah Woodbury (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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He is a king, a warrior, the last hope of his people–and the chosen one of the sidhe …

Rhiann knows demons walk the night. She has been taught to fear them. But from the moment Cade is dragged before her father’s throne, beaten and having lost all of his men to her father’s treachery, he stirs something inside her that she has never felt before.

When Cade is revealed to be not only Arthur’s heir but touched by the sidhe, Rhiann must choose between the life she left behind and the one before her—and how much she is willing to risk to follow her heart.

The Last Pendragon is the first book in The Last Pendragon Saga.

Complete series reading order: The Last Pendragon, The Pendragon's Blade, Song of the Pendragon, The Pendragon's Quest, The Pendragon's Champions, Rise of the Pendragon, The Pendragon's Challenge, Legend of the Pendragon.
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    February 14, 2016
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From Darkiss Reads (darkissreads.com):

Sarah Woodbury weaves a tale of Myth and Magic in The Last Pendragon ... I could not put this book down and read every chance I had, even losing sleep to finish the story.

I felt my love for the Arthurian era come alive again. This book is worthy of 4.5 Stars!

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Thank you for reading my books! For the complete listings of all my books and series, please see my web page: sarahwoodbury.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BS64CJY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group (February 14, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3582 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 164 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1530055393
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings

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Welcome to my Amazon Author page! I’m Sarah Woodbury and if you were looking for more of my books, you’ve come to the right place! It is so great to see you here.

On this page you'll find links to my novels, available in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook. The first book in two of my series is FREE in ebook. They’re great places to start if you haven’t read my books before or our looking to branch out from a favorite series:

Daughter of Time (the prequel to the After Cilmeri series)

The Good Knight (the first Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery)

The Last Pendragon (The first book in the Last Pendragon Saga)

Cold my Heart (The first of the Lion of Wales series)

Or, if you would like all those books in one free bundle, you can start with Guardians of Medieval Wales.

If you click on the FOLLOW button, Amazon will let you know whenever I have a new release in any of the series. You can get in touch with me on my website, on Facebook, or via my YouTube channel where I talk about all things medieval!

More than anything, I'm so happy you've found my books. Happy reading!

With over two million books sold to date, Sarah Woodbury is the author of more than forty novels, all set in medieval Wales. Although an anthropologist by training, and then a full-time homeschooling mom for twenty years, she began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded that she let them out. While her ancestry is Welsh, she only visited Wales for the first time at university. She has been in love with the country, language, and people ever since. She even convinced her husband to give all four of their children Welsh names.

Sarah is a member of the Historical Fiction Author Cooperative (HFAC), the Historical Novel Society (HNS), and Novelists, Inc. (NINC).

She makes her home in Oregon.

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Catherine Mackay
5.0 out of 5 stars History and Welsh myth combine to create an exciting and adventurous story
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016
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Having just finished The Last Pendragon, I am once again lost in the world of the Wales of yester-year as envisioned by Sarah Woodbury. From the first page I was drawn into the story of Cade and Rhiannon and felt deeply sympathetic of their individual stories. Cade is a decendent of King Arthur and has been long foretold as the one who will unite Wales against the Saxon invaders. Rhiannon is the bastard daughter of the self-styled King and usurper Cadfael and is bent on turning away any suiters that come her way - her father is none to thrilled at her recalcitrance and seeks to marry her off to a Saxon Lord. In true Sarah Woodbury fashion, the two meet and find themselves in the thick of adventure, budding friendships and the promise of an impossible romance. The Last Pendragon combines the historical with figures from Welsh myth to present a story that grabs the reader from the get go - it was unput-downable.
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Tyler R. Tichelaar
4.0 out of 5 stars King Arthur's Heir is a Sidhe
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2011
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The title of Sarah Woodbury's The Last Pendragon intrigued me because of my long interest in King Arthur's descendants, although the title character is actually Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon, the last of the Welsh kings, as mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain. Cadwaladr is not actually a descendant of King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Woodbury does not make him such in her novel, although he is continually referred to as Arthur's heir and compared to Arthur in greatness.

I assumed Woodbury would not make Cadwaladr Arthur's direct descendant, but I was still interested in the novel because few authors have tried to treat the Welsh version of Arthurian times, save for people like Nikolai Tolstoy in The Coming of the King. Woodbury does not try to recreate the Welsh world to the extreme level of authenticity Tolstoy attempted, but she introduces the Welsh gods who rarely make it into Arthurian legends. As she notes in her afterword, the conflict between pagans and Christians was more commonly a medieval issue, and I found her Welsh world and their gods a refreshing change in Arthurian fiction.

The gods play a major role in this novel. Cadwaladr, more commonly called Cade in the novel, is the son of the late king Cadwallon, who was killed by his enemy Cadfael, who then married Cadwaladr's mother. Taliesin, the bard, took Cadwaladr to safety as a child, but now Cadwaladr is grown; he has just done battle with his men against Cadfael and lost. He is imprisoned at Cadfael's court but is rescued by Cadfael's bastard daughter Rhiann, and together they escape the castle.

Following the escape, the gods enter the picture. Cade was chosen by Arianrhod, the goddess of time and fate, to be her champion so she has given Cade the power of the sidhe, the godlike beings, sometimes fairy folk, of the Celtic world. The power makes Cade stronger and gives him special powers, although he is the opposite of a solar god, being stronger at night and weaker during the day.

Meanwhile, darker problems are afoot. Teragad, another Welsh leader, has obtained Arianrhod's cauldron and used it to unleash the gods into the mortal world. A great war ensues in which Arawn, Lord of the Underworld, and his son, Mabon, enter the fight. Humans go to battle against demons and only Cade seems able to save the day, but to do so, he must reveal his sidhe power and that the price for that power has been the loss of his immortal soul. Rhiann finds herself attracted to Cade, but once she learns the truth about his powers, will she be able to love him?

I loved the concept of this book--a historical novel about a minor character in the Arthurian world who is rarely given attention to. The introduction of Welsh gods and magic into the story makes it more fantasy than historical reality, but it also offers a sort of magical realism for how the Welsh people might have viewed their world. I was not as fond of the actual writing itself, although Woodbury is a competent writer and at times entertaining, but I found the book less than gripping at times and sometimes skimmed over the descriptions. That said, the book stirred my interest in Cadwaladr and made me want to learn more about the Welsh world that preserved the Arthurian tales.

I had some small qualms with the printed book itself. I ordered a paper copy from Amazon with no knowledge that the book was part of a series. I only discovered that at the end of the book in the historical note where Woodbury referred to The Last Pendragon Trilogy. There had to have been printing or layout problems. My copy says below the title "A Tale of Dark Age Wales" but the cover image on Amazon now says "The Last Pendragon Saga: Book One" so the error must have been corrected recently. I also found the book layout a tad subpar with the left margin unjustified, some extra pages or pages where text was a line or two shorter on certain pages, and a few more typos than normal in a book, although not as bad as many a self-published book I've seen.

Overall, The Last Pendragon is a refreshing twist on the Arthurian canon without being focused primarily on King Arthur. Readers who enjoy a blending of fantasy and historical fiction should enjoy the book, although it weighs more on fantasy since so little is known of the historical Cadwaladr.

- Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and author of "King Arthur's Children"
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Steven Drennon
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Another Arthur Retelling
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2011
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Being a long time fan of everything related to the King Arthur legend, I was anxious to read this story, which promised to be about the "heir to the throne of Arthur". I was very pleased to see that this was more than just a retelling of the old King Arthur stories and instead featured a whole new set of characters. The two primary characters are Cade, the grandson of the legendary Arthur, and Rhiann, a woman who would love him, even if the fates would not allow it.

One of the most interesting aspects of this book for me was the way the author alternated each chapter from the perspectives of these two star-crossed lovers. It was something completely different to be allowed to get so deep into the thoughts of the two main characters, even as they related to one another. The author did an excellent job of giving each of them their own, unique voice and made it easy for the reader to relate to the different emotions that each experienced.

Of course, there were a number of other characters in this story as well, and the author did a great job of weaving them into the story along with Cade and Rhiann. There were different chapters where each of these two primary characters interacted with the same supporting players at different times, and it helped to give this reader a more well-rounded view of the supporting characters, certainly more so than usual in most books.

Naturally, this tale would not be complete without a sizeable portion of magic, demons, and swordplay. "The Last Pendragon" delivered nicely on all counts. I would have liked to have seen perhaps a little more magic from the wizard, but the little he did was instrumental to the story. I thought his character overall could have used a little more development, but the rest were very well done.

Perhaps the biggest drawback of the book was the difficulty in pronouncing some of the names and locations. While the book does contain a guide, I'm not certain that most readers would bother with it. By the time I got to the third or fourth chapter, I quite trying to figure out the proper pronunciation and just satisfied myself with acknowledging who or what the author was speaking about, and from then on I never gave it a second thought.

I would give this book 4.5 stars out of 5, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is fond of historical fiction or fantasy novels.
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BarbarinaS
3.0 out of 5 stars I am not normally a fan of the short book ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017
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I am not normally a fan of the short book series but was drawn to this anyway. It proved to be very enjoyable with an interesting story line and an equally interesting cast of characters. I would have rated higher but it was too short and it was too obvious there was more to come. The plot is still unraveling.
Cade is very appealing and very human and his relationships are quite fascinating. For a hero he is almost hesitant and with a lot of heart that has us wanting to know more. I have already downloaded Book 2.
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Salena
5.0 out of 5 stars The history is amazing
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2019
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You can tell in her writing that the history of her stories are very important. I love that about them. Then she adds the story plots and romance around it. So wonderful. I do have a hard time with the names, but I eventually get used to it. Doesn't take away from the story at all.
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Kate Wick
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2017
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Will have to see how this series pans out?
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Ian Titler
5.0 out of 5 stars a budding relationship with the daughter of a bad enemy, mixed in with legends and magic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2017
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Any version of Arthurian legend and I'm up for it. This was an interesting beginning of a troubled hero, a budding relationship with the daughter of a bad enemy, mixed in with legends and magic, otherworldy creatures, and the ongoing threat from the Saxons. I liked it
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Deb BONANNO
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Reviewed in Australia on January 23, 2021
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Great series !
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Miles Taylor-Charlemagne
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Historical Adventure and Atmosphere!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2023
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I know the legend of Arthur Pendragon through it's many different versions of media, like Merlin for example! Interesting new story in the historical world of the Pendragons and I loved how the story captures the reader's feelings for that time, alongside focusing on the female roles and how the role of a heroine was the main focus and how connected she is to the Pendragon family which was really interesting to read about. Short but a very good story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2017
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Great book
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