A Última Vida de Sir David
#4674.00 adjusted 3.97 for sample size in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 1 book Status Complete 2020 Reading commitment Low Pedro Galvão Last reviewed 2026-09-05
Overview
A Última Vida de Sir David is a standalone Portuguese-language fantasy novel by Pedro Galvão, published in 2020 by the independent Portuguese press Imaginauta. It follows the knight Sir David as he is tasked with educating a young prince and finds himself drawn into Onyria, a world of peril, illusion, and magic, in what he comes to understand is his seventh and final life, with each of his prior lives casting a long shadow over the choices open to him now. Galvão, an academic based at the University of Lisbon alongside his fiction writing, builds the novel around themes of memory, duty, and repeated chances, using the reincarnation frame to let Sir David's accumulated experience, rather than raw strength, drive the story's central conflicts. The novel is part of a small but growing body of original Portuguese-language secondary-world fantasy published through independent presses in the 2010s and 2020s.
Epic fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (1 work) counts toward ranking
A Última Vida de Sir David (2020) core · 4.00 (7 ratings); A standalone Portuguese-language fantasy novel following the knight Sir David and a young prince through a world of magic and illusion; the author's only work of fiction, alongside a career of academic philosophy writing and translation.
Quick answers
- How many books are in A Última Vida de Sir David? A Última Vida de Sir David's Core Canon is 1 book.
- Is A Última Vida de Sir David finished? Complete (2020).
- How much reading does A Última Vida de Sir David take? Low reading commitment (estimated from 1 Core Canon book · ~368 pages).
- How is A Última Vida de Sir David ranked? #467 in this site's official ranking, based on 7 reader ratings across 1 Core Canon book. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #467?
Ranked #467 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 4.00 across 1 core book.
- A smaller readership (7 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- Less than 0.01 behind #466, The Harold Shea Series (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
- A single standalone novel: ranked on that one book alone.
Why explore this universe?
Well rated · 1 book · Complete · 7 ratings · Ranks #467 overall
Good choice if you want a quick, low-commitment epic fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
A single Core Canon work: no sequencing question to resolve.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 4.00 across 7 ratings on 1 Core Canon book. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: A Última Vida de Sir David admitted; single-work Core Canon accepted 2026-09-05
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Imaginauta (publisher product page) Tier 1
- Os Rascunhos (Portuguese book-review blog) Tier 4
- Pedro Galvão's own faculty page (bibliography) Tier 1
Last reviewed: 2026-09-05
Rule: Core Canon is the single novel A Última Vida de Sir David (2020). No sequel or wider series exists.