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Soul Change #3
Second Time Around
"I never got a chance to tell Sam I love him!"
These are young Jennie Carmichael's dying thoughts. A tragic accident is ending her life--and she's never told her boss, private eye Sam Magee, how much she loves him. She was too timied--why would attractive Sam care for his shy, wheelchair-bound assistant? As Jennie's lifelight fades, an incredible sadness fills her.
Then a miracle happens, Jennie awakens to find she has been given a second chance. She's elated--until she discovers she has returned to life in the body of Maxine Lizbon--Sam's detested ex-wife.
As Jennie struggles to adjust to a body that can walk, dance and make love--things she only dreamed of from the confines of her wheelchair--she realizes she is in deadly danger. For Maxine Lizbon was murdered, and now her killer is stalking Jennie. And worse, the man who can help the most--private eye Sam Magee--is the one who least wants to...
These are young Jennie Carmichael's dying thoughts. A tragic accident is ending her life--and she's never told her boss, private eye Sam Magee, how much she loves him. She was too timied--why would attractive Sam care for his shy, wheelchair-bound assistant? As Jennie's lifelight fades, an incredible sadness fills her.
Then a miracle happens, Jennie awakens to find she has been given a second chance. She's elated--until she discovers she has returned to life in the body of Maxine Lizbon--Sam's detested ex-wife.
As Jennie struggles to adjust to a body that can walk, dance and make love--things she only dreamed of from the confines of her wheelchair--she realizes she is in deadly danger. For Maxine Lizbon was murdered, and now her killer is stalking Jennie. And worse, the man who can help the most--private eye Sam Magee--is the one who least wants to...
310 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 15, 1997
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Tina Wainscott
57 books277 followersTina Wainscott is the USA Today bestselling author of over thirty books with romantic thrills and suspenseful chills. A happy ending is a must, but the road to it is full of ravines and shaky bridges.
As Jaime Rush, Tina is the author of the Hidden series, featuring humans with the essence of dragons, angels, and magic, and the award-winning Offspring series, about psychic abilities and government conspiracies. www.jaimerush.com.
As Jaime Rush, Tina is the author of the Hidden series, featuring humans with the essence of dragons, angels, and magic, and the award-winning Offspring series, about psychic abilities and government conspiracies. www.jaimerush.com.
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September 17, 2020
Young Jennie Carmichael was killed in an accident when her wheelchair slipped over the edge of the staircase. Her last regret was never having told her boss, private investigator Sam Magee, that she loved him. But Jennie is given a second chance when she wakes up in the body of Maxine Lizbon, Sam's ex-wife. She is found by Sam, laying in the hallway outside of his office with her head bleeding. It seems Maxine was injured and trying to get to Sam to tell him something when she died. Jennie now has a chance to tell Sam how she feels; and find out who killed Maxine.
This is the third book in Tina Wainscott's Soul Change series. I read the first two books several years ago and just stumbled across this one. I liked the set-up of this story...the heroine gets a second chance in the body of the detested ex-wife. Sam can't believe the changes in Maxine. She is now a nice person...even the dog likes her. There is just something about her that reminds him of Jennie.
The story was okay; but seemed to drag on too long. For some reason, Jennie thought she could not tell Sam what had happened to her, but she had no problem telling her old roommate. The mystery about who killed Maxine was an easy one to figure out. This is a good story, but could have been better. My rating: 3 Stars.
This is the third book in Tina Wainscott's Soul Change series. I read the first two books several years ago and just stumbled across this one. I liked the set-up of this story...the heroine gets a second chance in the body of the detested ex-wife. Sam can't believe the changes in Maxine. She is now a nice person...even the dog likes her. There is just something about her that reminds him of Jennie.
The story was okay; but seemed to drag on too long. For some reason, Jennie thought she could not tell Sam what had happened to her, but she had no problem telling her old roommate. The mystery about who killed Maxine was an easy one to figure out. This is a good story, but could have been better. My rating: 3 Stars.
October 9, 2019
I enjoyed reading this book. I enjoyed reading the series and hope she adds more to it.
July 25, 2012
I've read all of the soul exchange book, well at least the ones re-released. All of them are a good light read. I finished them in one sitting, but I'm a fast reader.
As for this book, I will say as I've said in other reviews of Jaime's. I really like the idea of souls changing places and getting second chances. It's different and not as over done as most paranormal or urban fantasies. That is something I really like about all Jaime's books subjects, especially the Offspring series.
The purpose of this story is getting a second chance to do it right. Oh, and I really like the leading man in this one.
As for this book, I will say as I've said in other reviews of Jaime's. I really like the idea of souls changing places and getting second chances. It's different and not as over done as most paranormal or urban fantasies. That is something I really like about all Jaime's books subjects, especially the Offspring series.
The purpose of this story is getting a second chance to do it right. Oh, and I really like the leading man in this one.
January 6, 2020
2.5 stars
Tina Wainscott's "Second Time Around" falls short of its mark. Although I liked the complexity of the main characters, the character development, the plot, and the idea behind it. I found the execution lacking.
There were a number of things that contributed to the book's shortcomings:
(1) I had a hard time holding my ability to suspend disbelief when the author suddenly decided to change the rules in this universe. In the prequels, telepathic like abilities didn't exist. Now, for whatever reason, the ability for living people to receive messages from a higher power is something I must accept way past the midpoint in the story. Don't introduce something like this long after the story has started. The author used this device a number of times to prompt the hero to realize the heroine is in danger and to realize she is someone he knew before. I sincerely feel cheated.
(2) I can't get over the bizzarness of the fiance. This isn't a minor character quirk. This is a full blown-out abnormal person with a serious neurosis.
(3) The author didn't set up the villain of the story believably. Without spoilers, all I can say is that through process of elimination, I narrowed my list of suspects between two people (one of them the villain) because they didn't seem like the obvious red herrings the author was throwing at us. At the end of a thriller when the villain is revealed, the reader should be getting the "Oh! That's what I missed. It seems so obvious now." I didn't have that. Instead, I had the "well, I narrowed it down, but the reasons are so over the top and melodramatic that it's not believable."
Tina Wainscott's "Second Time Around" falls short of its mark. Although I liked the complexity of the main characters, the character development, the plot, and the idea behind it. I found the execution lacking.
There were a number of things that contributed to the book's shortcomings:
(1) I had a hard time holding my ability to suspend disbelief when the author suddenly decided to change the rules in this universe. In the prequels, telepathic like abilities didn't exist. Now, for whatever reason, the ability for living people to receive messages from a higher power is something I must accept way past the midpoint in the story. Don't introduce something like this long after the story has started. The author used this device a number of times to prompt the hero to realize the heroine is in danger and to realize she is someone he knew before. I sincerely feel cheated.
(2) I can't get over the bizzarness of the fiance. This isn't a minor character quirk. This is a full blown-out abnormal person with a serious neurosis.
(3) The author didn't set up the villain of the story believably. Without spoilers, all I can say is that through process of elimination, I narrowed my list of suspects between two people (one of them the villain) because they didn't seem like the obvious red herrings the author was throwing at us. At the end of a thriller when the villain is revealed, the reader should be getting the "Oh! That's what I missed. It seems so obvious now." I didn't have that. Instead, I had the "well, I narrowed it down, but the reasons are so over the top and melodramatic that it's not believable."
January 31, 2020
I enjoyed the book but...
After the first two riviting books in Ms Wainscott's series, this was anti climatic.
Unfortunately, there wasn't the same type of characters, neither heroine or hero, in this book. I hate writing this because the first two were absolutely amazing, yet this one didn't have the chemistry, the oomph of the first, or the in your face of the second. Honestly, it seemed generated with lackluster results.
Frankly, as if an editor was in the author's ear fussing about the contract for the next book, and of course deadlines, which all led up to written to quickly for production, not giving Ms. Wainscott the time she needed to work through this story line.
Overall, the novel wasn't a bad read, but regretful amount of money.
I hope to see some of the author's spirit and personality in some of the rest of the series I have chosen.
These novels I picked move some from the three I already read, fortunately. Instead of getting a new chance in someone else's body, it seems from what I previewed the "light" happens in a different way. The story takes a more involved societal setting.
Karen
After the first two riviting books in Ms Wainscott's series, this was anti climatic.
Unfortunately, there wasn't the same type of characters, neither heroine or hero, in this book. I hate writing this because the first two were absolutely amazing, yet this one didn't have the chemistry, the oomph of the first, or the in your face of the second. Honestly, it seemed generated with lackluster results.
Frankly, as if an editor was in the author's ear fussing about the contract for the next book, and of course deadlines, which all led up to written to quickly for production, not giving Ms. Wainscott the time she needed to work through this story line.
Overall, the novel wasn't a bad read, but regretful amount of money.
I hope to see some of the author's spirit and personality in some of the rest of the series I have chosen.
These novels I picked move some from the three I already read, fortunately. Instead of getting a new chance in someone else's body, it seems from what I previewed the "light" happens in a different way. The story takes a more involved societal setting.
Karen
April 21, 2022
This series has been slow going for me, not because it drags on but because I'm not trying to rush my way threw it. It also helps that I've been having a hard time finding them for free online. But anyway onto the review;
Second Time Around, or Woke Up Dead was the third installment in this series and compared to the second book it was leaps and bounds better. Reminded me of the first book which is a good thing. I like how the main character, Jennie/Maxine didn't tell her love interest, Sam, who she was. I like that kind of stalled out drama. I even enjoyed the overall mystery of who was trying to kill Maxine.
Overall i enjoyed this body swapping romance. It's unique and charming in it's relationship growth between characters and i like how it still glosses over Heaven. It's not a propaganda for Christianity. I also enjoyed the disabled point of view via multiple characters and I'm hoping there is a book on Gabby with her landlord lover, cause they were hella cute.
Second Time Around, or Woke Up Dead was the third installment in this series and compared to the second book it was leaps and bounds better. Reminded me of the first book which is a good thing. I like how the main character, Jennie/Maxine didn't tell her love interest, Sam, who she was. I like that kind of stalled out drama. I even enjoyed the overall mystery of who was trying to kill Maxine.
Overall i enjoyed this body swapping romance. It's unique and charming in it's relationship growth between characters and i like how it still glosses over Heaven. It's not a propaganda for Christianity. I also enjoyed the disabled point of view via multiple characters and I'm hoping there is a book on Gabby with her landlord lover, cause they were hella cute.
February 16, 2022
Good Read
This is a good mystery that kept me on the edge of my seat. A woman dies and comes back in another’s body. Unfortunately she is the ex wife of the man the woman loves. She has to try to get him to love her so that she can live her life with him. As more characters are introduced the murder mystery becomes frontal in the story. Up until the end you are kept wondering who and will the main characters survive. Good book!
This is a good mystery that kept me on the edge of my seat. A woman dies and comes back in another’s body. Unfortunately she is the ex wife of the man the woman loves. She has to try to get him to love her so that she can live her life with him. As more characters are introduced the murder mystery becomes frontal in the story. Up until the end you are kept wondering who and will the main characters survive. Good book!
March 7, 2025
Loved it
I love these Love and Light books. This is the third one I’ve read. I love the idea of people getting a second chance, in another person’s body. I enjoyed the two main characters interacting in new and different ways, working together, loving each other, protecting each other; and loved how it ended. It was hard to stop reading and ended too soon.
I love these Love and Light books. This is the third one I’ve read. I love the idea of people getting a second chance, in another person’s body. I enjoyed the two main characters interacting in new and different ways, working together, loving each other, protecting each other; and loved how it ended. It was hard to stop reading and ended too soon.
September 4, 2019
A very interesting plot.
The wave between Jennie and Sam never deteriorated despite everything.
Though the chemistry between the two could have been spiced up a little.
Overall a neat and light read.
The wave between Jennie and Sam never deteriorated despite everything.
Though the chemistry between the two could have been spiced up a little.
Overall a neat and light read.
January 25, 2020
Woke up Dead
Loved the book but sure would like to know if they ended up together. Did they be one partners in his P I business?
Loved the book but sure would like to know if they ended up together. Did they be one partners in his P I business?
May 14, 2023
Totally enjoyed the story. Mystery/Detective is not normally my genre, but the paranormal element of possession made for a nice twist
May 7, 2025
2,5 ⭐️
September 1, 2014
So I'm an avid Jamie Rush fan and when I found a bunch of books that she wrote before her Offspring series I was keen to check it out. Unfortunately I just couldn't bring myself to finish this book. In fact I started skimming at about 30% and then realised that I really just don't care how the book ends. It might just be that I'm not in the right state of mind at the moment for this book, but in my opinion a great book grabs you no matter what mood you are in.
I'm a very affectionate person and reading this book I find that I'd rather be touched by a snot monster than Armand which annoyed me too much and I'm not a big Magnum PI fan so Sam didn't really appeal to me either. I found it hard to picture Maxine as a sexy woman as the "Jennie" persona came across as a child. And then the actual story felt like a game of Clue or an old school mystery movie. If the Santini's had a butler I really wouldn't have needed to finish the book, but in the end I jumped to the last couple of chapters and found out who the killer was. It still didn't make me want to read how they got there.
So I'm shelving it under my very aggressively titled Too terrible to finish shelf for the moment. If I feel the need to read something average later I might pick it up again...
I'm a very affectionate person and reading this book I find that I'd rather be touched by a snot monster than Armand which annoyed me too much and I'm not a big Magnum PI fan so Sam didn't really appeal to me either. I found it hard to picture Maxine as a sexy woman as the "Jennie" persona came across as a child. And then the actual story felt like a game of Clue or an old school mystery movie. If the Santini's had a butler I really wouldn't have needed to finish the book, but in the end I jumped to the last couple of chapters and found out who the killer was. It still didn't make me want to read how they got there.
So I'm shelving it under my very aggressively titled Too terrible to finish shelf for the moment. If I feel the need to read something average later I might pick it up again...
December 18, 2013
Another book in the Soul Exchange series by Tina Wainscott/Jaime Rush. Jennie Carmichael is in a wheelchair and in love with her boss. But she has never been able to express her feelings to him. A tragic accident takes her life but she is given a second chance. Only it's in the body of Maxine Lisbon, the ex-wife of Sam Magee, her boss.
Not my favorite of the series but it was pretty good. I didn't care for all the decisions that Maxine/Jennie made but the story itself kept me reading. I guessed the villain fairly early but there were some nice twists thrown into the story to make it exciting. I'd recommend it.
Not my favorite of the series but it was pretty good. I didn't care for all the decisions that Maxine/Jennie made but the story itself kept me reading. I guessed the villain fairly early but there were some nice twists thrown into the story to make it exciting. I'd recommend it.
August 10, 2010
From the back cover.........The h has spent the last 10 yrs in a wheelchair,she fallls down a flight of stairs and dies.
She is given a second chance and returns as his ex wife.This book turns out to be an easy reading love story and mystery.The authors first I believe and I think if her others sound this easy and good I will try them
She is given a second chance and returns as his ex wife.This book turns out to be an easy reading love story and mystery.The authors first I believe and I think if her others sound this easy and good I will try them
September 26, 2012
Great twsts and turns in this really neat body swap novel. Nicely developed characters with real depth. The reader can't help but sympathize with the main character and her struggles through this interesting, often gripping story. I very highly recommend it.
June 23, 2016
I had a hard time getting into this story. The characters were just okay for me and it was a bit slow. The fiance was just a bit too bizarre to be believable. I found myself just wanting to get to the end of this slow moving book.
June 28, 2014
3rd time reading and it was just as amazing
July 1, 2020
Not like the first 2 novels, but I liked it no less
April 17, 2022
A book with a lot of humour and heart. If you love bodyswap novels and have read the plot, then reading this book is an easy decision! I know I enjoyed it.
November 25, 2014
Judge me if you must but this "cheesy" romance novel is getting 5 stars from me. I loved it.
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