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Falcon Quinn survived the first term at the Academy for Monsters along with his monstrous friends Max, Pearl, Mortia, and the rest. He has finally discovered his monster nature and is working hard to embrace it. But what does it mean to be an Angel, exactly? Having wings is great, when Falcon can remember to use them, but with parents who are the leaders of two warring groups--the monsters and the guardians--Falcon still feels torn in half.
When his monster friends begin to doubt his loyalty to the monster world and his only option is flight to Guardian Island, where his mother rules and he is a prince, he'll see the guardians as well as his monster friends in a whole new light. He will also have to decide if Jonny Frankenstein can be trusted and find a way to save his friend Megan from her imprisonment on Guardian Island, not to mention find a way to stop the monsters and guardians from fighting, once and for all.
Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan continues the heroic and often hilarious tale of Falcon Quinn and his band of monster friends in this second installment of the hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-8-Falcon Quinn seems to be torn between two worlds-the monsters and the guardians. Jennifer Finney Boylan's sequel (2011) to Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror (2010, both Katherine Tegen Bks.) picks up after Falcon's first year at the Monster Academy. He's finally getting accustomed to being a monster, but is confused about what it is to be an angel. And having parents from the two warring groups isn't helping matters. His friends don't trust him, and he's wondering where he fits in. The story gets interesting when he flees to Guardian Island where his mother rules and he is the prince. Fred Berman provides an extensive range of different voices with wit and enthusiasm, and he flawlessly delivers the story's many humorous moments. Packed with adventure and humor, middle school listeners will line up for this one.-Tricia Grady, Franklin Community Schools, IN (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Learning he's an angel hasn't made kindhearted Falcon any less of an outsider, whether he's at his father's Academy for Monsters or on his mother's island of monster-slaying Guardians. Can he stop his friends from destroying one another? Monstrous silliness abounds in Boylan's slapdash second Falcon Quinn adventure; the lively (if sprawling) supporting cast of zany characters counterpoint Falcon's existential blues. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Falcon Quinn returns to another exclamation markladen year at a school where nobody understands him, the poor little angelliterally.At the end of his last year at the Monster Academy, Falcon discovered his angelic nature as well as his true parentage: His father is the demonic Academy headmaster Crow; his mother, queen of the monster-killing guardians. None of this knowledge has made him any more popular. The other kids don't trust him anyway, and it doesn't help that he keeps finding himself in ridiculous scrapes. Did Falcon try to kill his friend Pearl, the famous Chupakabra of Peru? Did he stuff Quagmire, the puddle of bubbling glop, in his godzooka during band practice? When Falcon flees from monsters and finds himself among guardians, he discovers those monster-killers resemble his monster friends more closely than either side would like to admit. The silliness is consistently funny but not consistently age-appropriate; a pirate referring to the bottom of the sea as "Peter Tork's locker" is a groaner that will zoom right over the heads of middle-school readers. For the most part, however, egg-laying werechicken boys and Hamlet "as written in the original Frankenstein dialect" will keep giggles coming. The humor provides necessary counterpoint to the trowelled-on nobody-loves-me angst.Goofy, overenthusiastic nonsense with just enough rambling plot to hold it all together. (Fantasy. 9-11)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror (2010), Falcon, an angel, learned that he is the son of a monster and the queen of the monster-hunting Guardians. Deciding to live as neither a Guardian nor a monster, Falcon tries to enjoy a trip to the Monster Island amusement park and then a new year at the Academy of Monsters. However, suspicions swirl about the spring disappearance of two of Falcon's friends, and Falcon vows to find them, solve the mystery of a vapor-emitting amulet, and discover where he belongs. Newcomers may be lost, but series fans will enjoy this installment.--Rutan, Lyn. Copyright 2010 Booklist
