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The Last Paladin #1

The Last Paladin #1

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I was once a mighty Paladin of Darkness, mother of all the Elements. The one and only of my kind.

Some called me the chosen one, a savior destined to rescue the world; others insisted I would be its downfall.

I never got the chance to discover who was right. Society conspired with the traitors to trap me in the deadly Element of Time.

But a year later, I managed to break free... wait, how has it been 700 years?

351 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 27, 2025

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13 reviews
April 15, 2025
I love the story but…

I hate that the MMC is a playboy that sleeps around with women with no consideration for their feelings. I can sense that there may be a harem building within the next books so I will not be continuing the series. It sucks that there’s a great story here but those two things are dealbreakers for me.
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Author 3 books7 followers
April 25, 2025
decent book, KU book 1 bait and switch

Not a terrible book. Fairly shallow. Super abrupt ending… and book 2 is not available on KU… so that kind of ruins it for me.
388 reviews
May 30, 2025
Bait and switch. 😡

It would be really annoying if the first book was good enough that you would care about missing the rest of the series.

Only first book is Kindle Unlimited. Second book is $8.99 which is high end for a digital read license. Sometimes the K.U. release is just delayed. But unlikely to be the case here as the releases exceed common delay times. So you end up having to purchase the first book or end up with an incomplete series in your library. Or wait for a box set discount to read the rest of the series? NO THANK YOU!

One of my least favorite things and puts an author on my "will not read" list. Even if future series are full Kindle Unlimited.
2,537 reviews72 followers
March 20, 2025
This is just a fun ride.

Nothing overly complicated, just a fun jaunt that never stops for very long. A solid read, I look forward to more.
140 reviews
October 24, 2025
I don't even know why I read this. I was looking for something different and I originally liked the main characters story development, but the book didn't produce any substantial plot.
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616 reviews4 followers
December 20, 2025
I thoroughly enjoyed this well written and perfectly paced story.
Loved the humorous and charismatic MC.
I’ll be back for more of this series
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272 reviews84 followers
December 17, 2025
Interesting world building. Premise is that the MC is 700 yrs in his world's future where things don't work like he remembers. Sadly, this reads like a D&D player in God-mode. No real tension, no plot other than kill-kill-kill-eat-sex-kill repeat at nauseum, and with mediocre writing at best. It ends without any resolution of the main action--a teaser for the next book--but not good enough to make me want to read any more by this author.
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123 reviews2 followers
May 6, 2025
Good start to a series

I'm a bit gunshy of kindle unlimited books; too many of them are predictable and need an editor. But this is a good start to a series. It is a 'fish out of water' tale with the protagonist a warrior from 700 years earlier trying to adjust to 'modern' life. He writes action well and has a good sense of dialogue, though he underestimates the amount of change that would happen in 700 years. The language would have changed so much that he wouldn't be understood, and technological changes would make his adjustment far harder. But I like the characters and will gladly suspend disbelief for book 2.
8 reviews
May 29, 2025
I would actually give it 3.5 stars. The story was good, if a but superficial. It clearly was setting things up for the next couple of books. I was very disappointed this was a Kindle bait and switch. Only the first book is available as part of the paid subscription, you have to buy the other books. I hate when they do that. I need to be better about checking that out to begin with.
3 reviews1 follower
April 27, 2025
I hope this isn’t the new Kindle !

The book1 was very good and I looked forward to book 2 only to find out that it wasn’t Kindle Unlimited. Book 2 would cost me $8.00. If I had known this I wouldn’t have read book 1 and looked forward to the series. This is the reason I gave it one star. Bait and switch may be my incentive to move on to another platform. Looks like greed to me !
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721 reviews6 followers
September 8, 2025
Excellent series, Second time reading, bought the rest of the books.

This is an excellent series where I read the book, and then waited until 2 or 3 more accumulated before buying all of them. It's not often I can say there's a character and story that I want to read more than once without going to some of the true classics. Really like this character in the world he built. The main character is the perfect blend of confidence and power without feeling like the story will just become OP.
This is my second reading of book 1 and will be the first reading of books two through three. I hope the quality maintains! This first book I highly recommend it's just enjoyable. Simple fun and enjoyable.
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822 reviews5 followers
July 23, 2025
The Last Paladin #1: An Action & Adventure Progression Fantasy Series

Author: Roman Savarovsky


📚 Plot Summary

Meet Marcus, once a formidable Paladin of Darkness—the sole wielder of the feared eleventh Element. Betrayed by nobles, he was sealed within the Element of Time. According to him, only a year passed. But when he escapes, he discovers 700 years have elapsed, and the world he knew is gone. His order is extinct, familiar faces forgotten, and monsters ravage the land. Alone and displaced, Marcus must rebuild himself, adapt to a changed world, and uncover who orchestrated his downfall. Along the way, he partners with unusual companions—a ravenous cat, a sadistic parrot—and dives into dangerous portal-cleanups, assassination attempts, and political tensions with aristocrats. His journey is equal parts vengeance and survival.



🌟 Detailed Review


World‑Building & Atmosphere

The author crafts a vividly stark universe: elemental portals spill hordes of monsters into human realms, human factions vie for power, and ancient magic still lingers. Marcus’s arrival 700 years late gives the setting a haunted, post-apocalyptic feel—strange yet familiar.

Main Character & Narrative Style

Marcus is unapologetically overpowered—a Paladin of Darkness who knows his worth. He’s confident, charismatic, and ruthless when needed, but also honors a strict moral code. His interactions—from witty banter to seduction and combat—are often dryly humorous. The storytelling alternates between first‑person (Marcus’s perspective) and third‑person scenes for broader world context. Some readers may find this shift jarring.

Pacing & Structure

This book moves swiftly. In about 350 pages, Marcus frees himself, explores the changed world, makes allies and enemies, and even settles into a kind of base of operations. The ending feels more like a pause than a resolution—setting up a larger series arc rather than concluding a full standalone adventure.

Magic & Progression System

Though labeled as progression fantasy, the systems of magic and advancement aren’t deeply codified. Marcus’s power feels innate, refined by experience rather than gained through levels or skill trees. This looser structure allows narrative flexibility but may underwhelm fans of highly defined progression systems.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Pros: Fast-paced action, a charismatic and deadly protagonist, immersive worldbuilding, and sharp humor.

Cons: Predictable tropes (overpowered MC), abrupt ending, some stylistic inconsistency between POVs, and less-defined magic mechanics.


⭐ My Rating: 4.0 out of 5 Stars
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Overall Verdict

If you’re craving a smart‑aleck, ultra‑capable hero caught in a time‑warp mystery, set in a world of elemental turmoil and portal sieges, The Last Paladin #1 delivers. It’s a quick, entertaining read built for fans of progression fantasy and OP characters, though it stops where the real journey begins.



Strong opening. Fast action. But expect more in Book 2.

1,083 reviews10 followers
May 2, 2025
Impressively creative, with superb attention to detail & endless action...

First of all, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the author's limitless imagination, storytelling technique, and fascinating storyline. He's sets our enigmatic, extremely gifted and powerful hero within a world and planet that has progressed and advanced while he was trapped in a portal. For Marcus, he's only lost one year away from everything and everyone he knew as he finally escapes his prison landscape, defying all the stacked odds against him ever finding a way home. He discovers his life, world, everything, as he knew it just a year ago, somehow disappeared, having accelerated, passing through hundreds of years (nearly seven hundred, in fact), so Marcus emerges into a completely unfamiliar, unrecognizable world that is alarmingly different. No one he knew is alive, nobody knows or remembers him. Shades of Rip Van Winkle...times seven.

The author uses a straightforward writing style, narrated mostly by Marcus with a few others popping in to add necessary details at key moments. It's filled? with exciting, fascinating action that features our hero's hugely dominant, take-no-prisoners strategy that more often than not gets boosted by his magic. The plotline veers into astonishingly thrilling, unexpected outcomes that are vastly entertaining as we follow Marcus on his evolutionary, strangely honorable journey and self proclaimed mission to root out truth, seek justice, reestablish order and peace, while finding his own peace and balance, and potential happiness.
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Author 11 books1 follower
April 18, 2025
Not sure what to think about this one. I finished it, which is an accomplishment, given my recent DNFs. The writing is good, the main character is interesting, the action is gripping, and the world is one of the more unique settings I've ever encountered.

I would have liked a more substantial plot than just the main character dealing with repeated assassination attempts for no apparent reason other than petty jealousy. The magic system is inconsistent and never adequately explained. Sort of like the Force in SW, it serves the plot and allows the MC to do whatever he needs to overcome his enemies. The progression aspect focuses more on his social status than his power. He starts penniless with no home or support system and ends the book with wealth and security. The ending is sudden and oddly executed, as if the publisher held a machete, tossed the full manuscript in the air, and sliced a section off, declaring, "We shall end the first book here."

I think I would have preferred a straightforward third-person account rather than shifting between first and third person repeatedly. The third-person sections were necessary to develop the world and other characters, and I would have preferred a neutral narrator to describe the MC's perspective as well.

All said, I will probably read the next book, as it is equally short, and I expect the MC will eventually encounter a situation he cannot easily handle, allowing us to see the magic system pushed to its limits.
105 reviews2 followers
June 27, 2025
I can recommend this first book in the series

I just got done reading The Alchemist by another author named Roman. I was looking for something similar and what I found was another character who built things. Unfortunately that story was unbelievably disappointing. That then brought me to this gentleman's book. Never have I read anything by him. The blurb did interest me and so I gave it a shot since it was available under the Kindle unlimited program. I can see without a doubt that this first book, which admittedly did you take it easy on the first book of a new series, is one in which I would recommend to anybody reading this review. The world as it is revealed to us is invaded by monsters via portals. Not all monsters exit the portals and thus some of humanity go in to fight and seal them. Our main character is the first Paladin of some sort of order. There are aristocrats who conspired against the order,?, but him specifically. Their trap sees him locked away for a year from his point of view and 700 from everybody else's. This story then is him breaking himself free and then adapting to the same yet new world he finds himself in. He is a relic of the past that is unbelievably overpowered. He is still however trying to regain his former strength. In other words this first book seize our main character setting up something of a beachhead from which he can repair what the evil aristocrats have done.
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110 reviews3 followers
November 5, 2025
Decent, but...

The editing is slightly rough, but not too distracting. There are two or three "off camera" sex scenes, nothing too racy.
I love the story, the setup, and the pace of this book. World -building gets a B.
So overall, pretty good! I considered 4 stars briefly, but two related issues stand out: 1) This first book is too short. 2) the other books in the series are about 9 bucks apiece. And a bonus item: 3) not all the books in the series are published yet, even though they all have cover art and release dates! This suggests that they are already written, or at least partially written, but have been held back to be published on a lucrative schedule.
I'd be willing to pay a little bit for each short book, but not that much.
I am annoyed by authors that don't finish the story in one book but just parcel it out at a premium price.
Authors deserve to earn money, but this is blatant fleecing.
87 reviews
October 12, 2025
I found this quite enjoyable. Not perfect by any means, but it's fast-paced, reasonably well-written, and laced with sardonic humor. Good escapist fun. Our hero is a bit of a young male's fantasy: he's all powerful, irresistible to women, able to deal with surprise attacks and other "disappointments" without losing his cool, etc. But it's all PG, there's no sexy details, and we are therefore not distracted from our true purpose of bashing the baddies.

This first book in the series is on KU, but the later ones aren't. That's a tad disappointing, but it's not evil: authors are allowed to sell their books how they want, and don't have to cater to anyone's sense of entitlement. I'm looking forward to the next one.
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1,047 reviews4 followers
October 26, 2025
My reviews are my own. If you liked this book, I’m glad you enjoyed it. If not, I respect your opinion. This is merely my opinion, so let's keep it courteous. My review is honest and voluntary.

The story idea was great, but the MC is a playboy who doesn't respect females, and although I skipped those parts, I feel that the story is going to turn into a harem. All of these books adding "sex/romance" to the story just turn a great story into trash. will not continue the series. Kind of tired of sexist stories. This is supposed to be an adventure, not a Playboy Magazine.

On to my next adventure, Happy Readings!!!
1,926 reviews18 followers
July 26, 2025
I generally find litrpg to be shallow but fun to read. This may not be as deep as Jordan's Wheel of Time series but it is more than the usual pulp fiction. What really makes this is the main character, who appears morally grey but has more light in him than he admits. I snicker as I watch him sabotage his "vacation" from paladin-ship to help here, be nice there, kill slavers there, etc. while working towards unintentionally building his personal community. Let's see how much closer he gets to building an empire in the next book.
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176 reviews6 followers
May 6, 2025
Fun Read

I like the OP MC who gives no craps angle in this book. I appreciate the fact he doesn’t somehow start bleeding from the nose when trying to hold a conversation despite being fearless and unstoppable on the battlefield. That trope in books annoys me and is now present here. Pacing was great and feels like a lot was accomplished in the relatively short length of the book.
274 reviews6 followers
June 11, 2025
Gave the audio version a listen and stopped counting errors by a third of the way through.

Audiobooks by publishers like tantor/recorded books.. well they tend to be better on the editing front than this.

This book was also short and felt like a partial book with how it just ends willy-nilly. So not like a book in a book series but instead like the first part of an arbitrarily chopped up lengthy web-novel/serial.
1 review
September 13, 2025
An interesting read.

It was an interesting read although it was definitely written as a series. Not much seemed to happened plot wise. It’s a typical power fantasy for men. The MC is stronger and smarter than everyone, he’s never surprised, and women just fall into his bed with little more than a one liner. The only struggle that he had was finding something to eat to bridge the gaps between kicking ass and bedding women.
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2,907 reviews49 followers
February 20, 2025
I received a review copy of this book.
Not how I expected the story to start. The main character manages to close a portal he'd been unceremonously dumped into just to get rid of him. Turns out, there's a lot more to it than that, and the rest of the book is him learning what those circumstances are. It's actually a surprisingly good story. Looking forward to more in this series.
585 reviews
March 24, 2025
Nice Start

The MC is overpowered but weakened from his initial ordeal, and needs to rebuild his power. The MC is interesting with his personal honour system, ability to chat up women, but ruthlessly deals with any enemies in his way. I enjoyed the book even if it felt a bit short and stopped in a random feeling spot. I believe book 2 is out so I will go and continue the story.
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1,616 reviews61 followers
May 3, 2025
Eastern European books of this sort have a particular kind of MC. While there is progression as the title suggests, the MC here never struggles to any real extent, and is supremely confident that he is the baddest MF around. Better than a lot of this type of book I've read, but the end of the line for me as the rest of them aren't on KU.
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253 reviews4 followers
June 13, 2025
The Last Paladin (Book 1)

Well, I have to say for my taste this was a very good story! Lots of adventure, dungeon diving, murder, dungeon diving and murder, it did a great job of keeping the reader's attention, and not letting them get bored.

On to book 2!

Thank you to the author for an enjoyable story!!
2 reviews
June 14, 2025
This writer is a low life cheat!

What kind of a person would put the first book of a series on kindle unlimited and than start charging readers for the rest of the series? I will never read another writer s book that has a Russian name! If Amazon kindle has any morals at all they would ban this writer from their system.



258 reviews1 follower
June 29, 2025
Interesting book

Interesting MC, he was trapped and managed to escape, but the world is very different. It's 700 years after he was trapped, and his order is no more. Now he is taking a vacation while he figures things out. Having fun clearing portals with his cat familiar, dodging assassins and meeting interesting people. Definitely recommend.
663 reviews10 followers
August 5, 2025
Surprisingly interesting

The MC was a grandmaster darkness or void mage who was trapped after betrayal for 700 years. Upon returning to a fractured world. He puts a hurtin on botom feeders who would try to rip him off or even sell him into slavery. Not long affer, he sets his sights on those at the top of the food chain. They are not long for this world
9 reviews
September 2, 2025
Pulls you right in

I appreciated the author's ability to create the world without having to get bogged down in explanations of it. Spoiler alert: I enjoyed having the MC come out ahead in almost every encounter! Suggested by Kindle Unlimited, I'm rereading the series and have purchased the books.
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