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Summary: No surprises here
Review: These book was great from the beginning. DEFINITELY did not want to put the book down! It was a fabulous piece - Susan Isaacs at her best! A must read!
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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: These book was great from the beginning. DEFINITELY did not want to put the book down! It was a fabulous piece - Susan Isaacs at her best! A must read!
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Summary: Isaacs at Her Contemporary Best
Review: This book is fabulous.I don't agree with or endorse everything in it, but I have to confess, this is a great, great book to read. First, it's funny. The funniness is the most significant part of it. How many stories about estranged dead husbands are funny, especially when the ex wife wishes he were neither dead nor estranged? But Rosie, the heroine, is irrepressible... and that has nothing to do with the fact that we're both English teachers. She is, in her own words, postmenopausal, and she's Jewish, while I'm neither. But we both do have dark hair. Anyway, Rosie's husband is dead, and the next best thing about the book is that he was murdered. He was stabbed in the chest with a knife, and everyone thinks that Rosie did it, though all she wanted at that moment was a hot dog. As the book evolves oh-so-deliciously, we learn that someone familiar to the deceased did in fact do it, but who? The well paced and clever plot unfolds without wasting time nor skimping on details, and despite the fact that I'm a savvy voracious reader, the murderer was a total surprise to me. Total. Talk about a totally logical though well-concealed perp! Isaacs liberal sensibilities are poured all over this tale, which do in fact conflict with my own perspectives, but I find it relatively easy to overlook the ideological differences I have with this book to savor its finer qualities. The only other problem I have with it deals with Rosie's knight in shining armor... Isaacs never does spell out why he didn't ask her to the prom in high school. Read it! You'll love it.
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Summary: Isaacs at Her Contemporary Best
Review: This book is fabulous. I don't agree with or endorse everything in it, but I have to confess, this is a great, great book to read. First, it's funny. The funniness is the most significant part of it. How many stories about estranged dead husbands are funny, especially when the ex wife wishes he were neither dead nor estranged? But Rosie, the heroine, is irrepressible... and that has nothing to do with the fact that we're both English teachers. She is, in her own words, postmenopausal, and she's Jewish, while I'm neither. But we both do have dark hair. Anyway, Rosie's husband is dead, and the next best thing about the book is that he was murdered. He was stabbed in the chest with a knife, and everyone thinks that Rosie did it, though all she wanted at that moment was a hot dog. As the book evolves oh-so-deliciously, we learn that someone familiar to the deceased did in fact do it, but who? The well paced and clever plot unfolds without wasting time nor skimping on details, and despite the fact that I'm a savvy voracious reader, the murderer was a total surprise to me. Total. Talk about a totally logical though well-concealed perp! Isaacs liberal sensibilities are poured all over this tale, which do in fact conflict with my own perspectives, but I find it relatively easy to overlook the ideological differences I have with this book to savor its finer qualities. The only other problem I have with it deals with Rosie's knight in shining armor... Isaacs never does spell out why he didn't ask her to the prom in high school. Read it! You'll love it.
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Summary: See Isaacs heroine get even with a cheating husband big time
Review: This is a great, light murder with a pretty predictable plot, but with just enough twists and turns that all 40 somethings will enjoy. The main character, Rosie, seems just like a normal woman with a real sleazebag for a husband. After I read this novel, I proceeded to read all of Isaacs novels, and this is the best. One problem -- all her heroines are unrealistic in two ways (1)they may be middle aged, but they are beautiful and thin and have either great careers or lots of money or both and (2) these women may get dumped in a big way, but by the end of the novel, they have a great man in their life. Still worth reading. It will make you laugh.
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Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: This is a hilarious book. I have read several of Ms. Isaac's novels and found this to be my favorite. If you have a chance, listen to it on tape, Christine Baransky (spelling?) is hilarious. The plot is strong and very well developed and you never have to ask 'where did that come from?' Read it.
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Summary: Loved it and quickly went out to buy more of her books.
Review: This is a novel that would appeal to women who love murder mysteries. While it keeps you wondering "who dunnit" it interjects sarcastic humor while delving into the feelings and friendships of women.
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Summary: i loved this book!!
Review: This is one of the best books that I have read all year. Rose is hilarous, the way that she goes on the lam and hunts down witnesses that will exonerate her. (I especially liked the scene with Carter Tillotson in his car). And you are kept guessing til the end about whodunit. I recommend this book heartily.
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Summary: A Good Story with Bits of Humor
Review: This was a good book. I didn't expect to read the greatest book I'd ever read; what I'd expected was a story gripping enough to make me turn away from the computer and just want to read. That's what I got out of "After All These Years," which I think to be a terrible title for what is, really, quite a fun read.
"After All These Years" is based around solving the crime that middle-aged English teacher (but extremely wealthy by marriage) Rosie Meyers stands accused. I love a good murder mystery, and this one held my interest, despite the fact that stories surrounded by disgusting amounts of wealth ordinarily make me cringe. However, Rosie was a down-to-earth yet fallible woman, who mostly held true to the character Ms. Isaacs had created for her (a small flaw being that Rosie was a little too sexually promiscuous to me, considering how she acted in all other situations).
I figured out who had done it about three-quarters of the way through the story...and I'm not the world's best sleuth. So mystery fans may be disappointed by the easy answer. However, there were lots of twists and turns in this story that kept me turning pages right up until the end.
In comparing "After All These Years" to the other Susan Isaacs story I have read -- "Lily White" -- I liked "After All These Years" better. "Lily White" was an intriguing book, but based less on mystery and more a character study. Also, "Lily White" danced between first- and third-person narratives, which became confusing at most and took a lot of my concentration to follow at least. "After All These Years," on the other hand, was told completely from Rosie's point-of-view and in chronological order.
Plus...who wouldn't want to be in (or out) of Rosie's shoes as she, a middle-aged English teacher, scampers about New York on the run from the law, evading the cops and manipulating the enemy into handing over information. She'll clear her own name and lament over her jerk of an ex-husband, then play footsies with men half her age, all in the same day. For me, this was quite an escape into a world I am not (or hope not to be) a part.
And once in a while, Rosie will make you smile, if she doesn't make you laugh out loud. Recommended "beach" reading.
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Summary: Hilarious, laugh till you cry funny
Review: This was the first Susan Isaacs book I read. It was so funny that I rushed out to buy others - which unfortunately were not quite as good. This one, however, is just great, I laughed so hard I was crying!
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