Download Takes One To Know One Authored By Susan Isaacs Audio Books

was excited by the premise of Susan Isaacs Takes One To Know One and Id really been looking forward to it reaching the top of my pile.


“Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI, But at thirtyfive, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood, Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his lovelyyearold daughter, Between cooking meals and playing chauffeur, Corie scouts Arabic fiction for a few literary agencies and, on Wednesdays, has lunch with her fellow Shorehaven freelancers at a soso French restaurant.
Life is, as they say, fine,
But at her weekly lunches, Corie senses that something's off, Pete Delaney, a milquetoast package designer, always shows up early, sits in the same spot often with a different phone in hand, and keeps one eye on the Jeep he parks in the lot across the street.
Corie intuitively feels that Pete is hiding somethingand as someone who is accustomed to keeping her FBI past from her new neighbors, she should know, But does Pete really have a shady alternate life, or is Corie just imagining things, desperate to add some spark to her humdrum suburban existence She decides that the only way to find out is to dust off her FBI toolkit and take a deep dive into Pete Delaney's affairs.
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So when I was considering giving up on it, just a little more than a quarter of the way through, I opted instead to put it aside for twenty four hours, and then try again.
Honestly I picked it back up reluctantly and I have to admit the next quarter or so was still a slog, then at about the halfway point, the pace picked up and I suddenly couldnt put it down.


Im not exactly sure why I found the first half of Takes One To Know One so laborious, Told through Corie Gellers first person perspective, the narrative felt, at times, closer to a stream of consciousness, bogged down in the details of Cories life.
To be fair I think the poor formatting of the earc may have contributed to that impression, as there is no spacing between paragraphs, or even chapters, resulting in an uncomfortable runon effect.
That I didnt really warm to Cories angst regarding the changes her marriage had wrought, probably didnt help either,

For me the story finally got interesting when Corie began seriously investigating Pete Delaney and the narrative became more interactive if that makes sense.
As Corie considers and discards potential criminal scenarios that Pete Delaney could be involved in, she calls on ex colleagues for information, uses her best friend, Wynne, as a sounding board, and involves her dad, a retired police detective, in her investigation.
It all eventually leads to a tense confrontation that I found unexpectedly thrilling,

Im not sure that I can say the last half of the book was enough to redeem Takes One To Know One for me, but its entirely possible that you may not find the first half as problematic as I did, it may be worth a try if the premise appeals.

The narrator was the best part of this audiobook, The fact that she didn't begin alternating paragraphs with a deep sigh and the words, "Are you fucking kidding me" speaks volumes as to her capability as an actress.


Corie is way too scatterbrained and neurotic to be believable as a former FBI agent, No way did she pass the requisite psych tests, Your protagonist has to be believable, and she wasn't, Neither was the antagonist, for that matter, Or the plot. Or the fact that I spenthours,minutes, andseconds of my life listening to this mess,

out ofstars, and a new author to avoid at all costs, Isaacs does what she does best, using humor to sharpen dialog and create a mystery that keeps you reading, Corie Geller is ex FBI, now married to Josh, a widower and Dad to Eliza, Corie is unsure whether her suspicion about a man in her networking group is due to her honed instincts, or a feeling of boredom in her new, more staid life.
I enjoyed the book, and recommend as a good summer read, It Takes One to Know One by Susan Isaacs is a story about Corie Geller, married to a judge, happy adoptive mother to hisyearold girl.
She used to work in the FBI catching terrorists so she has a suspicious mind, She goes to weekly luncheons and is suspicious about a fellow person at these luncheons, Pete Delaney, She finds that some things he does are most peculiar, like sitting in a particular chair in the restaurant, facing the window so he can look at his car.
She feels that he is hiding something and sets about investigating him, eventually getting her father to assist her,
What follows is a humorous but dangerous attempt by Corie to really find out who and what Pete is up to, I loved the style of writing, the characters are believable,
I have always loved Susan Isaacs writing ever since I read Compromising Positions way back when, . This is definitely a book worth reading! This book was just okay for me, It didn't make me feel anything for the characters, It's no page turner and it didn't really hold me to it, Corie is a former FBI agent who is bored with her life and thinks something is up with her neighbor, Unfortunately, I got extremely bored with Corie and her life, too, Her air of superiority was grating, So was Susan Isaacs calvacade of brand names and upscale signifiers, I found myself actively rooting against Corie, and motored through this so I could read something more interesting, such as the latest flyer from the supermarket, with a clear conscience.


Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to read an ARC for a fair and honest review, I know this may be a bit more “honesty” than was intended! I really wanted to like this book, I've been a Susan Isaacs fan for years some of her books are among my favorites ever, And I've missed her lately she doesn't come out with new stuff as often as she used to, it seems, So I REALLY wanted to like this book,

I didn't.

It was a real slog to even finish it, Normally I wouldn't have life is too short to read bad books, But I'd received a free advance copy from the publisher, and I didn't feel I could fairly review a book I hadn't finished, So I kept at it, It took me ten days to finish this book, TEN DAYS. I usually polish off a novel this size indays, max,

If you're familiar with Susan Isaacs, you know that the heroines of her murder mysteries tend to be Long Island housewives who find themselves in the middle of a mess, usually the result of coincidence, circumstance, and the heroine's nosy/plucky tendencies.
These women tend to be witty, selfdeprecating and smart, and I have loved so many of them, Corie Geller was not one of those heroines,

Corie is a former FBI agent married to a widowed judge and new mom to his teenage daughter, But she's bored. Life as a Long Island wife is not what she was expecting, and she really doesn't seem to like her husband all that much, She seems to like being a mom, although it's hard to know that for sure we don't get to know her daughter well at all, I didn't feel that I got to know Corie, either even at the end, I had no sense of what motivated her, or why she was allowing herself to be stuck in this life she clearly didn't like.


In any case, Corie meets a perfectly ordinary guy in her Wednesday networking group, and finds something "off" about him, Next thing we know, Corie and her former NYPD dad are investigating this poor schmuck who hasn't done anything wrong except be weird, It just didn't work. It made Corie look nuts why invest all this time and effort, and drag your poor elderly dad into it as well If I had been her dad, I would have told her to get herself a life.
The way the story is told, there's just absolutely no reason for her to go off the deep end about this guy, Come on, Susan help a girl out and offer a little more motivation for all this suspicion,

Of course, Corie's instincts turn out to be correct, and suddenly we've gone from a fairly silly story about a fairly silly woman to a story about life and death.
Things get pretty grim, actually, which doesn't fit with the rest of the book at all, And worst of all, you have to slog your way throughpercent of the book to get to the part where anything actually HAPPENS,

I missed Isaacs' trademark humor, There's a funny line here and there, but generally Corie takes herself way too seriously very unlike a Susan Isaacs protagonist, Corie has very little personality, her parents are annoying caricatures, and her husband is dull as dishwater, There just wasn't anyone in the entire book for me to care about,

I wish I had enjoyed this book, I'm grateful to the publisher and to Netgalley for the opportunity to read one of my favorite authors, but I just can't recommend this one, Originally posted on my book blog, sitelinkTheBibliophage, com.

Back in the day, Susan Isaacs was an autobuy author for me, But that was literally decades ago, When I happened to read an excerpt of herbook, Takes One to Know One, I thought it was time to give her writing another try.
And this was an enjoyable, if not completely gripping, read, Or actually, a listen, since I found the audiobook on Scribd,

Corie Geller is a suburban housewife with a checkered past, Not that kind of checkeredshes a former FBI agent, And some days she regrets trading in her badge for a generally quiet life on Long Island, Her husband Josh is a Federal judge, who delights in intellectual dinner discussions, Their daughter is a tween with requisite attitude, And Cories work life is pretty staid overall,

As a freelancer for both publishers and the FBI, Corie works at home, She also belongs to a group of fellow entrepreneurs that meets for lunch every Wednesday, Networking becomes a game of intrigue when Corie starts to question the alltoofamiliar behavior of one of her fellow entrepreneurs, Pete Delaney,

My conclusions
Birds of a feather are more suspicious of each other, And Corie is certainly an inquisitive soul, She starts to dig into Petes background and just wont let go, I can appreciate this aspect of her personality! Plus, if she behaved any other way, Isaacs wouldnt have a story to tell,

I would have been happier with a little less marital angst, The cognitive dissonance of presenting Corie as a whipsmart former agent while she also anguishes about her move to

marriage and suburbia rankled for me, While, some conflicting feelings are probably logical, I think Cories mental review of the situation captured too many pages,

Isaacs writing is crisp and wellhoned, She knows when to dive into a descriptive passage, and when actionpacked plot progression is the best choice, Now I recall why I liked her all those years ago,
If youre looking for an escapist mystery thats not gruesome but not a cozy, this is a solid pick,

sitelinkPair with a series like sitelinkMaisie Dobbs from Jacqueline Winspear or a memoir of reallife FBI experience like Andrew McCabesbook, sitelinkThe Threat.


Acknowledgements
Many thanks to NetGalley, Grove Atlantic / Atlantic Monthly Press, and the author for an advanced readers copy of the book, in exchange for this honest review.
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