Taliesin, Pendragon Cycle Series #1

It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloddy war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. TALIESIN is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an imcomparble love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin..and Arthur the king.

It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.

Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.

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Reviewed by Natasha (Harrisburg), May 30, 2009

I loved this book! Lawhead is a very detailed and expressive writer and he uses precise words to convey his exact meaning. The story is also captivating as well as a page turner and i would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Tolkien, Lewis, Bryan Davis and other writers of adventure! You won't be disapointed.

Reviewed by The Masked Reviewer (Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany), February 23, 2002

A very good book from a very good writer. However, I would advise anyone who plans to read this series to first read Lawhead's "The Song of Albion." This is kind of like "Introductory Celtic" and unless you already know all about Celtic customs, language, etc, the reading of Taliesin and the rest of the series may go smoother if you read Albion first. Taliesin is a little slow, but such is the way of an epic. Once you get past the first couple of chapters, you will be drawn in to another place, another time long ago. A time of signs, and wonders, of Atlantis now lost forever. A time of druids and evil power. And a time of the Great Light, the Eternal God. Like my soliloquy, the book takes quite a while to get to the Christian part. If someone was reading this who didn't know Stephen Lawhead, and didn't get it from CBD or a Christian Bookstore, it'd take him a long time to realize it's even a Christian book. Still, though, it is a Christian book, and a very good one. I recommend it to all fans of fantasy, medieval, Celtic, Stephen Lawhead, and Arthurian legend. And if you aren't a fan of any of those things, I recommend you read it anyway. You just might become a fan!

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