Lots of action and a heavy dose of fun, it is hard to put down The Blood Guard once you start reading it. The first book in the Blood Guard series, the story centers on 13-year old Ronan Truelove who might be doing average academically but his after-school activities—gymnastics, judo, survival training make him ahead of his class in physical activities.
But one day, his dad was kidnapped; his mother had to act as a decoy to lure the kidnappers away from him. Ronan ended up with two most unlikely companions, his classmate Greta and Jack who speaks with a strange British accent.
With bad guys after them in every turn, they have to rely on their wits to outsmart them. There is one huge problem though. The bad guys seem to have some kind of magic while Ronan, Greta and Jack are mere humans. Now, how can they outrun them when their pursuers are always one step ahead of them.
An entertaining read, it is easy to see “The Blood Guard ” becoming a series in Nickleodeon or Disney Channel. Ronan, Greta and Jack meshed tightly as a team. There is also enough mystery to keep the adults interested.
The Blood Guard (The Blood Guard Series) is Rated PG 13 due to sci-fi violence. It is classified under Children’s Fiction and Sci-Fi & Fantasy.
When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove’s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too?
His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact, she’s a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure—thirty-six noble souls whose safety is crucial if the world as we know it is to survive.
Now all those after-school activities—gymnastics, judo, survival training—she made him take, make sense. For suddenly Ronan is swept up in a sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always thrilling adventure—dashing from one danger to the next, using his wits to escape the Bend Sinister, a posse of evil doers with strange powers. Falling in with two unlikely companions, Greta, a scrappy, strong-willed girl he’s never much liked and Jack, a devil-may-care teenage pickpocket, Ronan is left with only his wits and his mom’s last words of advice: Trust no one.
That’s a lot for an ordinary kid to deal with. But then again, maybe Ronan’s not ordinary at all.