Ranger Nader & the Sunstruck Phantom
By Kam Karem
Hi! Have you ever really loved something? I really love playing soccer. But I don’t love playing soccer as much as Ranger Nader loves spaceships. When he’s accepted to a spaceship school, he has to take on a journey that will change his life forever, with the world’s existence hanging in the balance.
Ranger and his friends have always loved the idea of outer space. However, when he learns that he is something called “sunstruck” which means that he has magnetism power in him, he gets invited to a school for people who are magnetic. This means that they can put up force fields around them and do all sorts of cool things. However, he is very powerful in magnetism. The only person who is that powerful existed a long time ago, and it turns out he is coming to get Ranger! That person is going forward in time, little by little, and taking other people’s magnetism powers to get him there. Ranger must train long and hard, while keeping up with his studies, to make sure that this villain does not destroy the world as he knows it!
I absolutely loved this book! However, I wish at the very beginning that the author had shown us a little bit more how magical the universe actually was. At first, the story is introduced with them hanging out on the beach and someone goes underwater, and you can’t really tell that there’s a magical connection until the end of Chapter 3.
I loved the part where Ranger, his sister, and cousins finally started becoming a crew together. I loved it when they got the Guardian sponsor and when they all came together and elected Ranger to be captain.
This book somewhat reminded me of the Percy Jackson series. This is because Ranger and the villain can both control parts of the weather. The villain can control the sun and Ranger can control storms. So if you’re a fan of Percy Jackson, I think you might like this book.
Will Ranger be able to destroy the villain and save the world? Or will, just as he always has, the villain continue to take out the people of the world until there is nothing left? As I always say, read the book to find out!
A few helpful things I like to say about the books I read:
“Run and Get Mom” (how I describe the scariness factor – zero being not scary at all and five being majorly scary): 3
“Yucky-Lovey Stuff” (how I describe the romance factor – zero having no yucky-lovey parts in it and five having major yucky-lovey parts): 2
I give this book 5 wands.
This was an amazing book! It took me a little while to get into it, but once I did, I just could not put it down. I really recommend that you read this book!
Source: Review Copy
