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Jordan (Pendragon Legacy)

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Vivianne Blackstone brought herself up from having nothing to becoming the CEO and owner of a billion dollar business, Vesta Corporation. Vesta Corporation is now in the public eye while it builds the spaceship Draco, which is the one hope Earth has against being conquered by the terrifying Tribes. Jordan McArthur, who had fought against the Tribes the first time they tried to conquer Earth, has secured a position as one of the lead engineers building Draco. Information has come to Vivianne's attention that puts suspicion on Jordan as a possible member of the Tribe.

Jordan has to find an ancient artifact, the only thing capable of saving the galaxies from the Tribes. To do this Jordan launches the Draco prematurely with Vivianne and a handful of engineers on board, to search for the artifact. In prematurely launching the Draco Jordan has only heightened Vivianne's suspicions of him plus Jordan's secretive nature doesn't help Vivianne's opinion of him either.

I know just enough about the tale of King Arthur and the knights of the round table, that Kearney's intergalactic twist on the this old legend was a very entertaining and fast read. Jordan had just the right combination of adventure, mystery and romance. The romance between Jordan and Vivianne was absolutely believable; Vivianne doubted and believed in Jordan at the same places I did as I read. Jordan was steadfast, brave and loyal; all qualities that I admired in hero. And the passion between these two was red hot from the get go.

I especially enjoyed the secondary characters of engineers; they were just geeky enough that the geek girl in me got a real kick out of several scenes in the book with these inexperienced space travelers.

One thing that really caught my attentions were the quotes at the beginning of each chapter from various book characters plus a few outside ones. These quotes were hints to the oncoming chapter. Here are two non-spoiler quotes that resonant with life in general:

"If you love someone, you'd give up everything for them. But if they love you, they won't ask you to." - Lady Guinevere

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away." - George Carlin

Jordan was an exciting and satisfying conclusion to the Pendragon Legacy trilogy. For me all ends were tied and I was very satisfied with the ending. While each book in this trilogy can be read as a stand alone, I think to get the full enjoyment out this trilogy you should try giving all the books a go.

When reading the third book in a series, what do readers expect? A continuance of a previous story line, but with different characters and a new and exciting twist? That's exactly what you get with this book. You get two more wonderful characters continuing the course of stopping the Tribes from taking over Earth, and even more fantastic support characters. Jordan's character is full of surprises. Fans of the tales of Camelot, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, will find Jordan and this adventure absolutely fascinating. Even if you are not a fan of King Arthur and his knights, Jordan and Viviannes' characters are flawless. This story is one adventure you won't want to miss. Fast-paced and action-packed, the reader is not given a moment to slow down and breath. Add to that some very explosive love scenes and there is not a dull moment to be found. The sex scenes are scorching hot and sure to raise the reader's temperature. Be sure to have a nice cool drink ready when reading this book. Jordan is one amazing book that has it all. If you enjoy books filled with phenomenal characters, enough action to keep you on your toes and sizzling hot sex scenes, this is one book you won't want to miss. - Jacquelyn R. Ward

Vivianne Blackstone is captain of a space craft. Jordan is part of the crew. Their mission is to save the planet, Earth. While that is their mission, the crew wasn't totally prepared to deal with the enemy. This will be the battle to end all battles.

Jordan is the last book in the Pendragon Legacy trilogy. I have enjoyed this trilogy. The way that Susan Kearney connected the men to King Arthur was interesting. These books can be read as stand alone novels. The story line for this book was good. It was the chemistry that I would somewhat lacking between Vivianne and Jordan. When they would get together it was rushed. I was bummed that this book ended on a low note. At this is book tied up the trilogy. I still do enjoy Susan Kearney books and will read more books by her again.

The Tribes destroy any planet in the galaxy who defies their edicts. Their current plan is to devastate the earth for rebelling as no one defies the Tribes.

Vesta Corporation CEO Vivianne Blackstone works on a spaceship to protect earth from the venomous Tribes. When she realizes her chief engineer, Jordan McArthur, submitted a phony résumé, she confronts him with the evidence. Instead of denying what she shows him, Jordan sends the spaceship Draco into space with him, Vivianne, some workers and a dog on board. Jordan has a vendetta that goes back centuries when Trendonis of the Tribes destroyed his world. Once known as Merlin, he uses his Staff as the fuel source to propel the Draco, but he and his crew must obtain the three Keys of Space, Wind, and Soil to power up his Staff in order to link it with the Holy Grail or watch earth face annihilation. He is falling in love with Vivianne, but Jordan conceals his feelings because if he succeeds in saving the earth and beyond by destroying the Tribe, he dies too.

The third Pendragon Legacy (see Lucan and Rion) is an excellent finish to a strong romantic science fiction trilogy with a terrific Arthurian magical link. The lead couple is a wonderful pairing of two strong personalities who are in conflict as she wants to save her planet while he wants to save a universe. Fans will enjoy this exciting thriller in which the courageous heroes know that if they succeed in defeating the Tribe, he expects to die but harder on his soul, he fears she will too; a risk she willingly takes.

Harriet Klausner

The final installment in The Pendragon series finds an unlikely candidate trying to save the Earth by finding King Arthur's Holy Grail. Jordan McArthur has lived so many lives and taken so many forms, including an owl, since his Camelot days but all of it has lead him to this time and place where the fate of the earth lies literally in the hands he has wrapped around The Ancient Staff. Jordan served as Merlin to King Arthur and finding the Holy Grail is the key to turning back the Tribes that want to annihilate the plant Earth. Jordan knows the risk he is taking and the cost will be his life but nothing can stop him from destroying the Tribes but maybe his boss and co-owner of the spaceship Draco, Vivianne Blackstone. Getting her on board with his farfetched search and rescue plan and letting her know the whole truth about him and the magic surrounding the spaceship seems the only way. He will tell her the truth and see even after learning he is a shape shifting dragon if trust is in the equation. However, Vi questions his allegiance to the project, to Earth and most importantly his loyalty to her once their mere attraction turns into a passion so intense neither can control nor contain it. Their lust and need for each other is burning hotter than the engines of the spaceship.

Before Jordan has a complete understanding of how the ancient staff works or an ability to control the pulses of energy and invisible bursts of power it has to be harnessed into use by the spaceship and put to full utilization as a power source. He finds without it he is unable to keep the spaceship working to guide him to fulfill his destiny of destroying his enemy and keeping Earth safe. Along the way he and Vivianne explore planets, have a close encounter with Arthur, and go deep inside a cave looking for mystical keys. But their searching helps them find the pieces needed to conquer the evil doers as well as cause them to stumble upon the most dangerous human discovery - love. They try to stop it, fight against it with everything they have but in the end the one common denominator they both share besides memories is love for each other that no artificial source of power can produce. Jordan wants to give his life for Vi but is he willing to give his love as well because they are now one in the same option.

It is never a good idea to fall in love with one book over another in a series because it seems unfair to the others and the reader would not be at book three had they not loved the first two. But Jordan's story in this series is a mold breaker because he is more than dashing good looks or the last man able to fight for earth's salvation he is a selfless man who will risk everything including his life to help others. He seeks to do the right thing and believes that his existence is secondary only to the salvation of others especially Vivianne and while he wants to spend his life with her he realizes that one person can change the outcome for everyone and he is willing to risk his life and love for that cause. There are so many great men but a stand up guy is hard to find. Jordan and Vivianne are such a strong couple but stand alone just as well which makes them both amazing characters.

Mary Gramlich ("The Reading Reviewer") [...]

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Jordan is the third book of the Pendragon Legacy, following on from Lucan and Rion. It works well as a standalone novel, except for some rather strange concepts that were probably introduced more convincingly earlier (two-hearted dragon-shapers in particular). The story combines Arthurian legend with sci-fi, sending hyper-intelligent businesswoman Vivianne Blackstone out into space on a prototype spaceship with the mysterious, alluring, and not entirely truthful engineer Jordan McArthur at the helm, plus some scientists and stowaways.

The space-farers find themselves on a quest to find and unite certain missing artifacts. Rather jarringly, one artifacts in particular induces intense lust between the main protagonists, plus a touch of shared memories. The characters' backstories are intriguingly drawn through the remembered scenes. But the plot becomes somewhat tortuous to a reader unfamiliar with "The Tribes" of earlier books.

Tension grows as the Tribes attack earth and the search becomes a race against time. Chaos, rather like that once cause by reading "War of the Worlds" on US radio, devours Jordan's homeland, and the protagonists wonder if there'll be anything left to save by the end of the tale.

The final scene is a delightful twist on space opera and good fun to read. I enjoyed the tale enough that, having found a stray copy of Rion at the bottom of a bookshelf, I shall probably read more. But this probably isn't a series for readers too attached to solid historical or scientific interpretations of mythology.

USA Today best-selling author Susan Kearney is a native of New Jersey, writes full time and has sold books to the industries' top publishing houses. As an award-winning author, Kearney earned a Business Degree from the University of Michigan. Her knowledge and experience spans throughout the romance genre, and her fifty plus books include contemporary, romantic suspense, historical, futuristic, science fiction and paranormal novels-- with Lucan and Rion as part of this series. She resides in Tampa, Florida with her husband and children.

After the death of her parents when she was just a child, Vivianne Blackstone focused on surviving and eventually became CEO of the Vesta Corporation. She's put her love life on hold, and her latest project is a spaceship designed to protect Earth from the deadly Tribes. But its engineer, Jordan McArthur, not only threatens her job, but her heart too. Jordan's past is tied to King Arthur, and he's on a mission of his own. He needs to find an ancient artifact in order to save the galaxy. Vivianne's ship is the only way to do that. When the ship is launched with a small, unsuspecting crew, Vivianne and Jordan are on a quest across the stars to the very end in order save all they hold dear. As the past and future collide, the passion between them is knocking down their defenses, and may just be the key to saving the world.

This is book three in the Pendragon Legacy series, the final installment, with Lucan and Rion coming before it. These books stand alone, with it not being necessary to have read the other books, but I would recommend it, as you'll get more out of the experience if you do.

If you've read the other books in this series, you won't be let down by this conclusion. It tied the other books together, continued the mission to save the galaxy, and was just as hot as the first two. Though I enjoyed the others, each book built in intensity, making this one pop. In this genre, an author really has to make the reader believe the plot is possible. Susan not only does that, she makes you wonder `what if'. The secondary characters added nicely to the plot, the setting was laid out in great detail, and the main characters were relatable. Here is an author who knows her conflict too, making this very hard to put down.

If futuristic romance is the future of romance, I'm on board...especially if Susan Kearney is writing them!

Vivianne is a self-made woman. Having lost her parents at a young age and being left to fend for herself, she's dedicated her life to being independent and running her own successful business. Her latest project, Draco, is a highly sophisticated spaceship that she intends to use to help save Earth from being taken over by the evil Tribes.

Jordan has lived for a very long time and most of that time was spent searching for the ancient staff that was taken away from him over 1,000 years ago. Using Rion & Marisa's help [in book # 2:], he was finally able to recover it and is finally ready to put the Tribes to rest by uniting the Staff with the Holy Grail. The hard part will be finding the Holy Grail.

Jordan then falsified a resume to get hired by Vesta Corp so that he can work on the Draco and use it to search for the Holy Grail. As you can imagine, Vivianne was none-too-pleased when she realized that Jordan's resume was a fake and even more irate when he used the staff to power the ship and launched them into space with only an amateur crew on board.

Their search for the Holy Grail takes them on a fantastic journey through space and several visits to foreign planets. Meanwhile, they're learning to cope with being stuck in space with no notion of where they are or where to go, an insatiable lust that seems to grip them an the most inopportune times and an amateur crew that's not prepared for any sort of danger.

I'm going to be perfectly honest and say that I had a little bit of trouble digesting these books only for the sci-fi aspect of it. However, if I can read about hottie vamps, yummy weres and tortured demons - then there's no reason I can't read about sexy aliens! Vivianne was my kind of gal. She was smart, sassy and feisty. Jordan was sarcastic, focused and ooh la la, sexy. Together, they were intense...and creative!

Susan Kearney does a great job of making this futuristic romance fun to read. She gives you a thorough plot and sees it through to the end. The storyline is as believable as a good author can make it - it does make you wonder though if someday space travel will be so feasible. I enjoyed these books more than I initially expected and will say that Jordan concluded the story nicely

The third in Susan Kearney's Pendragon series, Jordan is my favorite so far. The story centers on the mystery of Jordan and his relationship to the Holy Grail and the Staff and how these unique items can help save Earth from the Tribes. It helps to have read the earlier books in the series, because they help explain the world that Jordan and Vivianne live in and what they're fighting.

There is plenty of action as Jordan and Vivianne travel through space and explore strange planets to find the clues and artifacts that they need to create a weapon strong enough to fight the invading Tribes. But there is an equal part of romance and rather explicit love scenes as well. Overall, Jordan is a fun escape.

ISBN-10: 0446543330 - Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Forever; 1 edition (March 1, 2010), 416 pages.
Review copy provided by the publisher.