Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about The Girl with Borrowed Wings, which was a particularly difficult read for me:

That said, I can’t say that my reading experience was particularly pleasurable. At one point, I stomped into the kitchen, shook the book at my husband, and said, “If this doesn’t end well, we’re going out for ice cream!” Despite Frenenquer’s hints to the contrary, I kept flipping to the front cover, rereading Nancy Werlin’s blurb—which labels The Girl with Borrowed Wings as “absolutely delicious”—and trying to convince myself that it wouldn’t end badly.