R E V I E W | Journey of a Falcon by Mia Kun

Journey of a Falcon is the second installment of the Thornfield series, a YA centered around ballet.

This time round we have a new main protagonist, Alex.

Quick catch up

If you didn't read book one, Journey of a Butterfly, and you definitely should, I'll just quickly catch you up on events previously.

Kat and Alex are bff's and long time dance partner's, losing a bet Kat finds herself dragged reluctantly to boarding school by Alex, who's desperate to find out what life's like when your not living your life dancing 24/7. Luckily Thornfield Academy has a really good ballet program taught by none other than Nikolaev Dimidov who turns out to be Alex's dad. 

Kat's time at Thornfield is blighted by a girl called Belinda who's a total bitch, but everything works out in the end. Kat ends up with a hunk of a boyfriend, Will and lands a place in the Royal Ballet's performance of Alice in Wonderland, so Kat's leaving Thornfield to follow her dreams and Alex, who is battling with his love for dance, loyalty to Kat and desperation for a normal life decided to quit dance and just stay and study at Thornfield.

At the end of the book, after Kat is back in London, Alex see's an incrementing text pop up on Will's phone suggesting that he cheated on Kat on New Year's Eve. 

So now you pretty much caught up here's what I thought of Journey of a Falcon.

My thoughts

Like in Journey of a Butterfly the writing still needs a little bit of work, however this doesn't affect Kun's ability to tell a good story. I was already so invested in the story before I started this and really looking forward to seeing what happened next.

With Journey of a Falcon our POV changes and the story is now told from Alex's point of view, who during JOAB we don't get a real feel for other than the fact that he's bit of a player, a dance prodigy but doesn't really want to pursue it anymore.

We now get to see what a complex character he is. Alex has basically a split personality. His "I'm an arrogant arse, think I'm the best total player" side that he shows the world and his "devoted, caring, all round nice guy" persona that he reserves for Kat, which is the real him.

His relationship with his friends, his girlfriend Ava and his estrangedstranged father are all tested through this book, and his so caught up in trying to do the right thing by Kat that ultimately he ends up doing all the wrong things. We discover that although he may not wish to dance professionally, his love for dance runs deep and he is actually a talented choreographer.

I found myself really missing Kat in this book, much like Alex, who seems to be rather disjointed and broken with out her. There were many times I found myself getting annoyed with Alex simply because his mind was all over the place, but I think this is actually the idea. Alex just doesn't really know who he is without dance and without Kat, and he does go on quite the journey in this book.

I was so thrilled with the ending and on a whole I really did enjoy this book and I'm so excited to see what the author has to offer in the future.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves YA ballet. 

Mia Kun very kindly sent me an ARC copy in return for an honest review.