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Soul Change #1
Until I Die Again
Returning from Heaven can be Hell...
Chris Copestakes’s young life ends in a second filled with twisting metal, shattering glass, and her own terrified cry. Against all odds, she wakes up in a hospital and discovers she’s been given a second chance. But there’s a catch. A big one. She’s been returned to earth in the body of beautiful Hallie DiBarto, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy resort owner.
Thrust into an unfamiliar world of glittering prestige, Chris struggles to hide her identity and make a new life for herself. But the self-destructive Hallie left a legacy of dangerous secrets and angry people for Chris to deal with. And when she finds herself falling for Jamie DiBarto—a man both husband and stranger—her new life becomes wonderful and precarious. Because lurking in the past, both hers and Hallie’s, is a danger that could end it all.
Chris Copestakes’s young life ends in a second filled with twisting metal, shattering glass, and her own terrified cry. Against all odds, she wakes up in a hospital and discovers she’s been given a second chance. But there’s a catch. A big one. She’s been returned to earth in the body of beautiful Hallie DiBarto, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy resort owner.
Thrust into an unfamiliar world of glittering prestige, Chris struggles to hide her identity and make a new life for herself. But the self-destructive Hallie left a legacy of dangerous secrets and angry people for Chris to deal with. And when she finds herself falling for Jamie DiBarto—a man both husband and stranger—her new life becomes wonderful and precarious. Because lurking in the past, both hers and Hallie’s, is a danger that could end it all.
383 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 15, 1995
About the author
Tina Wainscott
53 books254 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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August 11, 2021
A 5 soul changing STAR!
After seeing the name of the book, the beautiful cover and the rest of the things, I thought this book would be a great story. And guess what, my gut feeling about this book was totally right! It's a masterpiece! Every sentence, every paragraph every chapter kept me engaged. And I absolutely loved that fascinating concept about soul changing! Farewell to the people closest to you, to fit yourself into a new situation, to live anew for a second time; the whole processing of the story was a big challenge. The author has done a great job here! IN MY OPINION, this book deserves more than a 5 star.
After seeing the name of the book, the beautiful cover and the rest of the things, I thought this book would be a great story. And guess what, my gut feeling about this book was totally right! It's a masterpiece! Every sentence, every paragraph every chapter kept me engaged. And I absolutely loved that fascinating concept about soul changing! Farewell to the people closest to you, to fit yourself into a new situation, to live anew for a second time; the whole processing of the story was a big challenge. The author has done a great job here! IN MY OPINION, this book deserves more than a 5 star.
August 22, 2020
Until I Die Again by Tina Wainscott
Book 1 of the Love and Light series. Romantic suspense.
Heroine Chris gets a second chance at life when she dies and is told it is not her time. She wakes up as Hallie, a spoiled and married socialite. Figuring out her new life takes some interesting and dangerous turns.
I liked the reference to the movie with the same premise. From there it got interesting since Chris has a totally different personality than Hallie. Her falling in love with her husband is inevitable. The twist of Chris having nightmares from her previous death, and the wacko boyfriend made the story suspenseful and intriguing.
Book 1 of the Love and Light series. Romantic suspense.
Heroine Chris gets a second chance at life when she dies and is told it is not her time. She wakes up as Hallie, a spoiled and married socialite. Figuring out her new life takes some interesting and dangerous turns.
I liked the reference to the movie with the same premise. From there it got interesting since Chris has a totally different personality than Hallie. Her falling in love with her husband is inevitable. The twist of Chris having nightmares from her previous death, and the wacko boyfriend made the story suspenseful and intriguing.
February 4, 2023
Found this one in my Kindle library and decided to give it a go. Wow, this book was so fascinating. It hooked me from the start. I read it in one sitting, that's how much it gripped me. I loved the main character and her determination for answers, love and living her life to the fullest. Such a great read! I will absolutely be reading the next book in this series.
June 9, 2022
A long rollercoaster ride!
Oh my, as if the whole soul/body swap thing isn't enough, the author puts in two separate villainous subplots and an almost cheating/wannabe ow track as well.
So, a 4* for all this cray cray ness.
Oh my, as if the whole soul/body swap thing isn't enough, the author puts in two separate villainous subplots and an almost cheating/wannabe ow track as well.
So, a 4* for all this cray cray ness.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 27, 2019
A quick romantic suspense.
Chris dies in a car accident and wakes up in the body of Hallie - a spoiled socialite who had a cerebral hemorrhage while asking her husband for a divorce.
Hallie’s husband Jamie knows about Hallie’s side piece. But he agrees to take care of her while she’s recovering, even though he’s very bitter toward her.
Chris is afraid she will be institutionalized if she tells him she’s a different person, but her personality is completely different. She has to figure out the way in Hallie’s life to win Jamie back while nightmares of her death plague her. Chris realizes her death was no accident and wants to solve her own murder.
It’s a pretty neat storyline, but a little too cluttered. And Jamie did stuff that didn’t make sense. Why have the woman who broke your heart stay with you, and then get mad when she wants to start over?
Free on amazon.
Chris dies in a car accident and wakes up in the body of Hallie - a spoiled socialite who had a cerebral hemorrhage while asking her husband for a divorce.
Hallie’s husband Jamie knows about Hallie’s side piece. But he agrees to take care of her while she’s recovering, even though he’s very bitter toward her.
Chris is afraid she will be institutionalized if she tells him she’s a different person, but her personality is completely different. She has to figure out the way in Hallie’s life to win Jamie back while nightmares of her death plague her. Chris realizes her death was no accident and wants to solve her own murder.
It’s a pretty neat storyline, but a little too cluttered. And Jamie did stuff that didn’t make sense. Why have the woman who broke your heart stay with you, and then get mad when she wants to start over?
Free on amazon.
July 20, 2021
I'm so happy to say that I loved this! And I am even more excited to say that I loved the heroine. This was a really interesting story.
The good:
- The idea was intriguing, a change of bodies to fulfill a purpose.
- The main woman was a good person, strong, determined and loyal.
- The best thing to me is that in this story, the girl is the one pursuing the guy, Chris/Hallie's mission is to fix her marriage, so he pursues James like crazy without being a territorial bitch about it.
- James was a lovely main character, a very loyal guy who loved fiercely and was cheated on, so he protected his heart at all costs. I respected that and his need to maintain Hallie at arms length, even after all, he loved her so the best he could do for himself was to get some distance. Isn't it swoon worthy? *squeals*
- I liked the setting: a resort in a island in the Caribbean, there were monkeys and mysterious guys who could read auras.
Why the 4 stars?
- The beginning talked about a light and god speaking to Hallie and stuff like that. It seemed cliché and it almost made me DNF, but I pushed through and I'm glad.
- The transition to love was badly handled, one day Jamie is treating her badly and the next he just decides he loves her, I didn't really understood it but I enjoyed the rest anyways.
- The sex was not described, it was implied with phrases like: he rocked into me like the waves coming at shore until a feeling inside me built into explosion... Is it so hard to write that he fucked her through a wall? Like really? God!
But I enjoyed a lot more than I thought, I was invested and interested and I loved the characters. FINALLY!! 😭😭💙
The good:
- The idea was intriguing, a change of bodies to fulfill a purpose.
- The main woman was a good person, strong, determined and loyal.
- The best thing to me is that in this story, the girl is the one pursuing the guy, Chris/Hallie's mission is to fix her marriage, so he pursues James like crazy without being a territorial bitch about it.
- James was a lovely main character, a very loyal guy who loved fiercely and was cheated on, so he protected his heart at all costs. I respected that and his need to maintain Hallie at arms length, even after all, he loved her so the best he could do for himself was to get some distance. Isn't it swoon worthy? *squeals*
- I liked the setting: a resort in a island in the Caribbean, there were monkeys and mysterious guys who could read auras.
Why the 4 stars?
- The beginning talked about a light and god speaking to Hallie and stuff like that. It seemed cliché and it almost made me DNF, but I pushed through and I'm glad.
- The transition to love was badly handled, one day Jamie is treating her badly and the next he just decides he loves her, I didn't really understood it but I enjoyed the rest anyways.
- The sex was not described, it was implied with phrases like: he rocked into me like the waves coming at shore until a feeling inside me built into explosion... Is it so hard to write that he fucked her through a wall? Like really? God!
But I enjoyed a lot more than I thought, I was invested and interested and I loved the characters. FINALLY!! 😭😭💙
April 22, 2022
Oh my gosh I enjoyed this cheesy goodness!
It's a 'dead girl resurrected as the Heroes despised wife' trope. Weird I know, but fun.
Chris is forced off a bridge when going to confront her boyfriend but when she floats above her body someone says she has another chance at life and she has a directive to 'help him find his heart'.
Next thing she knows, she awakens as a blond trophy wife named Hallie who is about to divorce Jamie, the wealthy hottie.
The characters weren't black and white most of the time. Well one guy was just plain evil, but everyone else was at least somewhat redeemable. It was a little predictable but not as much as I worried it would be. Jaime was understandably harsh towards her but nowhere near as mean as he had a right to be. Halley was a pretty dislikeable person and I just don't think I bring myself to read her book (the next one).
I like too, that Chris had a life before she died. There are people she misses who miss her too. That was the hardest part of the book to read.
safety is good
It's a 'dead girl resurrected as the Heroes despised wife' trope. Weird I know, but fun.
Chris is forced off a bridge when going to confront her boyfriend but when she floats above her body someone says she has another chance at life and she has a directive to 'help him find his heart'.
Next thing she knows, she awakens as a blond trophy wife named Hallie who is about to divorce Jamie, the wealthy hottie.
The characters weren't black and white most of the time. Well one guy was just plain evil, but everyone else was at least somewhat redeemable. It was a little predictable but not as much as I worried it would be. Jaime was understandably harsh towards her but nowhere near as mean as he had a right to be. Halley was a pretty dislikeable person and I just don't think I bring myself to read her book (the next one).
I like too, that Chris had a life before she died. There are people she misses who miss her too. That was the hardest part of the book to read.
safety is good
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December 18, 2015
I liked it at the start but near the end it got boring the romance was sucked out of the book and turned into a suspense murder mystery.
June 11, 2015
I liked it :)
The book opens with the murder of Chris. After her death she gets a second chance at life and love in the body of coma patient Hallie. Hallie is everything Chris isn't. She's knock out beautiful, rich, shallow, spoiled, and a lazy cheater who had just demanded a divorce from her husband when she had her stroke. Disoriented, and homesick all Chris really knows is Hallies boyfriend gives her the willies while Jamie makes her face heat and her tummy jump.
The book follows Chris while she tries to navigate Hallies life, falls in love with Hallies prickly weary husband and tries ti solve the mystery behind her own tragic death.
While I liked it, there were still some issues for me
Overall a fun read, worth picking up.
The book opens with the murder of Chris. After her death she gets a second chance at life and love in the body of coma patient Hallie. Hallie is everything Chris isn't. She's knock out beautiful, rich, shallow, spoiled, and a lazy cheater who had just demanded a divorce from her husband when she had her stroke. Disoriented, and homesick all Chris really knows is Hallies boyfriend gives her the willies while Jamie makes her face heat and her tummy jump.
The book follows Chris while she tries to navigate Hallies life, falls in love with Hallies prickly weary husband and tries ti solve the mystery behind her own tragic death.
While I liked it, there were still some issues for me
Overall a fun read, worth picking up.
June 20, 2013
This book has a really good plot. Finished the book in 1 day ~ Just couldn't put it down.
I was sucked into the story straight away. If you are like me, into books that are out of the ordinary then this is the book for you. (i'm just bored with the typical college hot dangerous guy hooking up with low self-esteem girl kinda plots)
Many scenes left my heart beating with an ache. Almost like my own heart was broken from the words Jamie said to Haillie. And All I wanted to do was keep hitting stupid Jamie over the head non stop. But then Jamie was super hot & rich. 100% perfect guy , all this was destroyed by the post Haillie. I just loved how Haillie worked so hard to win Jamie back. You'll have to read it to find out if she succeeded ~~~
There was a bit of suspense near the end. Perhaps if there was more "saving the damsel in distress" the book would've gotten a 5 star from me.
- romance 5 star
- suspense 3 star
I was sucked into the story straight away. If you are like me, into books that are out of the ordinary then this is the book for you. (i'm just bored with the typical college hot dangerous guy hooking up with low self-esteem girl kinda plots)
Many scenes left my heart beating with an ache. Almost like my own heart was broken from the words Jamie said to Haillie. And All I wanted to do was keep hitting stupid Jamie over the head non stop. But then Jamie was super hot & rich. 100% perfect guy , all this was destroyed by the post Haillie. I just loved how Haillie worked so hard to win Jamie back. You'll have to read it to find out if she succeeded ~~~
There was a bit of suspense near the end. Perhaps if there was more "saving the damsel in distress" the book would've gotten a 5 star from me.
- romance 5 star
- suspense 3 star
September 10, 2017
Part of a series written by Tina Wainscott as Jaime Rush, a Soul Change novel. Chris Copestakes is ran off a bridge by a semi and dies. But she is given a second change and she wakes up in another woman's body, Hallie DiBarto. Hallie's husband, Jamie DiBarto, is there at the hospital when she wakes. They were in the process of talking about a divorce when Hallie has a stroke. Now Jamie just wants her well and gone from his life. But this new Hallie is making him feel things he doesn't want to.
Listed as a romantic suspense but much of the story evolves around Hallie/Chris and Jamie's relationship. The suspense comes later in the story. But I loved it. It kept me glued to the pages and I didn't want to stop. In fact, when I finished this I immediately went and downloaded more by this author. Highly recommended!
Listed as a romantic suspense but much of the story evolves around Hallie/Chris and Jamie's relationship. The suspense comes later in the story. But I loved it. It kept me glued to the pages and I didn't want to stop. In fact, when I finished this I immediately went and downloaded more by this author. Highly recommended!
August 20, 2015
Needs Editing!
Good story but all the editing issues take away from it. It messes with the flow of the story telling.
Good story but all the editing issues take away from it. It messes with the flow of the story telling.
October 19, 2012
Dear Tina Wainscott,
You owe me precious sleep. Please give it back.
- Ria Lize
Before I started: Body change- fun!
What I got: OMG Everyone stop telling Chris that she should give up. :(
There is something exciting about the whole body change plot. The protagonist Chris wakes up in someone else's body, and she has no clue who/what/where/why. Hee! :P
One of the things I hate in a romance is the whole jealousy thing, which is why I hate love triangles. When it is used to get revenge or make them hurt/forget about someone (inspiring jealousy) it is not fun anymore. It is annoying.
Yes, this has happened in this book. A couple of times. However, I devoured it in just hours, sacrificing a couple of hours of said sleep.
Some bits were painful to read. But they're very short bits, I didn't mind. I got my HEA. :)
Although given my 5 star rating, I have mixed feelings about the body change. First things first, would it really feel right to be live a different body? Is it really fair to be in someone else's body?
Second,
When there came a point I thought 'geez, they're back to square one', then progress happens. Frustration came, frustration went. Teary-eyed later, the next I'm smiling like a lunatic.
I wonder if this would this mean there would be a lot of Soul Change books, since Hallie gets her book too? Then the girl in Hallie's body would be in someone else's body, and then the one in that person's body would go to someone else's body and then the one in her body... :S
Books like Until I Die Again are why I love romantic suspense. In fact, it was pretty much romance, with muted suspense. Romance was central, suspense was by no means non-existent, but to me the suspense bits were towards the end. It's funny I could picture the last few scenes like a movie.
And the awesome thing is, this book was only $2.00. :)
February 2, 2020
2.75 stars. It was okay--finished reading out of curiosity as to where the story was going to go more than how good the storyline was. Dialogue was kind of wonky and sometimes the flow and transitions were just off. Had lots of potential, and the next book sounds really interesting, but I think I'll have to pass.
January 16, 2020
Great
I really liked this book. It was hard to follow sometimes but overall it was great! It was really a great love story
I really liked this book. It was hard to follow sometimes but overall it was great! It was really a great love story
March 11, 2021
A fun read, but the plot elements got somewhat disjointed. I enjoyed the settings and the chemistry between the leads, who seemed to have fun together.
March 12, 2020
***** 4.5 Stars *****
I couldn't put this down. This was just what I needed!
A bit of mystery, a touch of suspense, and lots of heartwarming romance.
I'll definitely read more books by Tina Wainscott!
I couldn't put this down. This was just what I needed!
A bit of mystery, a touch of suspense, and lots of heartwarming romance.
I'll definitely read more books by Tina Wainscott!
January 25, 2021
This one has a very interesting premise for me. On this story, we have Chris who died then woke up in a different body, a different life. Her memories of her past life intact. I really like this trope of waking up in someone else's body after dying. I can't believe I've had this book for a while now but just decided to read it yesterday.
You know that exhausted feeling after reading an action and mystery filled book? I felt that after reading this. It has been a while since I was very deep into a book, I basically felt every emotion while reading this.😥
I love how fleshed out the characters are. I felt very emotional while reading some parts of the book. I wanted more.😢
The story is filled with misunderstanding, conflict, mystery, danger, yearning, family and love.❤
It was a roller coaster of a ride while reading this book. I was definitely hooked on the story and the characters. I'm being vague but I suggest you guys dive in blind to enjoy more of the story.👍
This was a fast read for me. The writing is very engaging. It managed to transport me to the story. Super recommended.👌❤
I read the synopsis of the second book and I am shook! I want to read it now!😆
You know that exhausted feeling after reading an action and mystery filled book? I felt that after reading this. It has been a while since I was very deep into a book, I basically felt every emotion while reading this.😥
I love how fleshed out the characters are. I felt very emotional while reading some parts of the book. I wanted more.😢
The story is filled with misunderstanding, conflict, mystery, danger, yearning, family and love.❤
It was a roller coaster of a ride while reading this book. I was definitely hooked on the story and the characters. I'm being vague but I suggest you guys dive in blind to enjoy more of the story.👍
This was a fast read for me. The writing is very engaging. It managed to transport me to the story. Super recommended.👌❤
I read the synopsis of the second book and I am shook! I want to read it now!😆
April 7, 2024
An enjoyable read that I finished in one day. I liked the concept and plan to read the next book in the series soon. There were a lot of cute and thoughtful scenes. (I don't know why, but I especially loved how the author portrayed the friendship between Hallie and Joya.)
For the cons, I'd have to say that the ending was kind of unsatisfying; it felt a bit too abrupt for my tastes and left me with a lot of questions. The characters were decent enough, but I struggled to understand the FMC's motives and goals at times. (She's a bit of an idiot, if I'm being honest.) Their romance was...meh. Some scenes and dialogue in the book also rubbed me the wrong way (ie. 'The Color Purple' joke scene (seriously, was that needed?))
Overall, it's good. I think the start was great and sucked me in, but the middle and end were where the book struggled the most.
For the cons, I'd have to say that the ending was kind of unsatisfying; it felt a bit too abrupt for my tastes and left me with a lot of questions. The characters were decent enough, but I struggled to understand the FMC's motives and goals at times. (She's a bit of an idiot, if I'm being honest.) Their romance was...meh. Some scenes and dialogue in the book also rubbed me the wrong way (ie. 'The Color Purple' joke scene (seriously, was that needed?))
Overall, it's good. I think the start was great and sucked me in, but the middle and end were where the book struggled the most.
April 1, 2020
What happens when you die before your time? What if you are given a 2nd chance at life, but in someone else's body and life?
December 16, 2019
Awesome idea, but I’m not really happy with how it was written. It was slow and dragging for most of it, and seemed like it might have been better ordered if that makes sense?
She dies and wakes up in another body, and we quickly start hearing the repeated ‘he’ll send me to the loony bin if he finds out, so I can’t tell him’. That’s fine, but because of the lack of finesse, it just became a bit of an annoying excuse. Same goes for the occasional ’god sent’ stuff - I’m not a fan of religious writing, but it was so here/not here that it was annoying.
She was murdered in the last life and I’m pretty sure she remembered that when she woke up - but I admit, I didn’t go back and check. So, whether she remembers her murder or not... she does remember her previous life. Then, she does nothing. She doesn’t google, she doesn’t hunt, she doesn’t think to go back really, she does ‘really’ think about what her family’s going thru too much. She just bumbles along in her new life that’s disintegrated just before she got there, and quickly falls in love with the guy she was sent back to help. Granted, it was a gods mission to find his heart, but it wasn’t essential that they fall in love for that, and while he is a nice guy and I understand why she would fall in love with him, there just seemed to be no reason except the story for her to fall in love with him so fast. He was an ass to her/former-her after what former-her put him thru. So a little more grounding would have been nice.
Anyway, way, way, way down the book, she decides to actually look into her murder because she’s been having bad dreams. And then she spends the rest of the book cementing her place at dumb-asses-r-us, and earning her platinum TSTL badge that she shows off with great pride.
The original murder was a great moment of TSTL as she knew there was something way way off and followed hook line and sinker with no thought safety or back up plans. I can kinda get over that as a bit of a way out there rushed unusual situation... but really... who’s going to a secret meeting at a secret place with a guys she’s just found out has been lying to everyone for almost a year and there’s a missing person and criminal activity involved? Please, write a note, make a call, send an email... don’t go to the out of the way place with the ‘stranger’ with a sketchy past...! Then of course she never bothers to call ‘home’ with an anonymous tip about a long distance friend who ‘sent her some details about a dodgy situation she was about to walk in to’. Not hard to make an anonymous call or send a letter to start getting questions asked, even before she had all the details. The details she did have was enough to get the snowball going. And what’s with the TSTL ‘I’ve been waiting months for this, but HAVE TO LOOK AT SOMETHING RIGHT NOW WHILE HES SUSPICIOUS OF ME AND KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON ME’. Please, could you not wait a day or two?
And then it’s all compounded by the fact that she again leaves no details or notes or backup in case the murderer manages to murder her to cover his tracks AGAIN!?!?! How hard is it to write a note or three and either leave them with people jic, or hide them where people will find as they pack up the murdered girls stuff!
TSTL!!!!! I HATE IT WITH A PASSION!
I love this idea, and the characters aren’t that bad out side of the TSTL. If the flow was smoothed out, and they weren’t ‘used and dumped’ (mothers and his friend) but built into a cohesive story, it would be great.
I actually want to read the next books jic they get better, but there’s not way in heaven or hill (<— yes, that’s a story pun 🙄) that I’m paying $6ea for them. I did consider if I might have bought a bundle, but there isn’t one available.
And since I mentioned it... the ‘hill’ and ‘witch with a capital B’ not swearing cause mum hated it was just SO random. They’d already been around for long enough for something like that to have shown up instead of almost halfway into the book. And the double stalkers were a bit ott. The chick was way too desperate and creepy to have them considering it a great idea for her to finally see the brother and go from about to shag the H to, you know, you really should go shag my brother, he’s been in love with you for as long as you’ve been obsessed with me🙄. Happy family’s is the aim right!?!?
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She dies and wakes up in another body, and we quickly start hearing the repeated ‘he’ll send me to the loony bin if he finds out, so I can’t tell him’. That’s fine, but because of the lack of finesse, it just became a bit of an annoying excuse. Same goes for the occasional ’god sent’ stuff - I’m not a fan of religious writing, but it was so here/not here that it was annoying.
She was murdered in the last life and I’m pretty sure she remembered that when she woke up - but I admit, I didn’t go back and check. So, whether she remembers her murder or not... she does remember her previous life. Then, she does nothing. She doesn’t google, she doesn’t hunt, she doesn’t think to go back really, she does ‘really’ think about what her family’s going thru too much. She just bumbles along in her new life that’s disintegrated just before she got there, and quickly falls in love with the guy she was sent back to help. Granted, it was a gods mission to find his heart, but it wasn’t essential that they fall in love for that, and while he is a nice guy and I understand why she would fall in love with him, there just seemed to be no reason except the story for her to fall in love with him so fast. He was an ass to her/former-her after what former-her put him thru. So a little more grounding would have been nice.
Anyway, way, way, way down the book, she decides to actually look into her murder because she’s been having bad dreams. And then she spends the rest of the book cementing her place at dumb-asses-r-us, and earning her platinum TSTL badge that she shows off with great pride.
The original murder was a great moment of TSTL as she knew there was something way way off and followed hook line and sinker with no thought safety or back up plans. I can kinda get over that as a bit of a way out there rushed unusual situation... but really... who’s going to a secret meeting at a secret place with a guys she’s just found out has been lying to everyone for almost a year and there’s a missing person and criminal activity involved? Please, write a note, make a call, send an email... don’t go to the out of the way place with the ‘stranger’ with a sketchy past...! Then of course she never bothers to call ‘home’ with an anonymous tip about a long distance friend who ‘sent her some details about a dodgy situation she was about to walk in to’. Not hard to make an anonymous call or send a letter to start getting questions asked, even before she had all the details. The details she did have was enough to get the snowball going. And what’s with the TSTL ‘I’ve been waiting months for this, but HAVE TO LOOK AT SOMETHING RIGHT NOW WHILE HES SUSPICIOUS OF ME AND KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON ME’. Please, could you not wait a day or two?
And then it’s all compounded by the fact that she again leaves no details or notes or backup in case the murderer manages to murder her to cover his tracks AGAIN!?!?! How hard is it to write a note or three and either leave them with people jic, or hide them where people will find as they pack up the murdered girls stuff!
TSTL!!!!! I HATE IT WITH A PASSION!
I love this idea, and the characters aren’t that bad out side of the TSTL. If the flow was smoothed out, and they weren’t ‘used and dumped’ (mothers and his friend) but built into a cohesive story, it would be great.
I actually want to read the next books jic they get better, but there’s not way in heaven or hill (<— yes, that’s a story pun 🙄) that I’m paying $6ea for them. I did consider if I might have bought a bundle, but there isn’t one available.
And since I mentioned it... the ‘hill’ and ‘witch with a capital B’ not swearing cause mum hated it was just SO random. They’d already been around for long enough for something like that to have shown up instead of almost halfway into the book. And the double stalkers were a bit ott. The chick was way too desperate and creepy to have them considering it a great idea for her to finally see the brother and go from about to shag the H to, you know, you really should go shag my brother, he’s been in love with you for as long as you’ve been obsessed with me🙄. Happy family’s is the aim right!?!?
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November 28, 2020
I was really afraid this was going to be a real tear jerker. Yes it was tragic, but it was also heartwarming and heartening. The tragedy that so sweet a person could lose their life because of how trusting they are, and someone could ruin someone’s love because of how selfish they were. So beautiful how that Heaven wove this into a beautiful mosaic of broken pieces of people’s lives and developed into an even more beautiful lives.
January 5, 2024
1. I was looking forward to reading this book because the idea seemed original; unfortunately, the execution didn’t make much sense to me.
a. Chris/Hallie kept trying to pretend that she remembered things from her old life. Why? Her total lack of memory would have given her the perfect excuse for not acting like the Hallie that everyone remembered. Also, she was really afraid of being sent to a “mental hospital” so she was anxious to learn as much about Hallie as possible in order to assume living her life. Wouldn’t the best way to learn as much as possible about Hallie be to play up her memory loss so that people would keep telling her things about herself and her previous life?
b. Chris/Hallie kept saying that she was going to have to get used to wearing more make-up, perfume and more revealing clothing like Hallie. Why? She was going to be divorcing Jamie so she wouldn’t be seeing him or his mother anymore. She didn’t like Hallie’s mother and decided that she wouldn’t be seeing her either. She also didn’t like Hallie’s best friend Joya much. She REALLY didn’t like what she was learning about the person that Hallie used to be. So, why didn’t she just wear the clothes that she wanted to wear and the makeup that she wanted to wear and be the person that she wanted to be? She didn’t have any reason to keep on trying to act like Hallie.
2. When Chris “died”, she left behind her parents, three sisters, three dogs and a boyfriend. After she woke from her “coma”, she barely thought of them. If that were me, my only thought would be getting back to the people that I loved. Instead, she was far more concerned with Jamie.
3. Since Chris/Hallie knew that her job was to win Jamie’s heart, why didn’t she tell him right from the start that Mick gave her the creeps and that she had no intention of going off to France with him?
After all of this, the plot veered off into the jewel theft and I lost interest altogether.
a. Chris/Hallie kept trying to pretend that she remembered things from her old life. Why? Her total lack of memory would have given her the perfect excuse for not acting like the Hallie that everyone remembered. Also, she was really afraid of being sent to a “mental hospital” so she was anxious to learn as much about Hallie as possible in order to assume living her life. Wouldn’t the best way to learn as much as possible about Hallie be to play up her memory loss so that people would keep telling her things about herself and her previous life?
b. Chris/Hallie kept saying that she was going to have to get used to wearing more make-up, perfume and more revealing clothing like Hallie. Why? She was going to be divorcing Jamie so she wouldn’t be seeing him or his mother anymore. She didn’t like Hallie’s mother and decided that she wouldn’t be seeing her either. She also didn’t like Hallie’s best friend Joya much. She REALLY didn’t like what she was learning about the person that Hallie used to be. So, why didn’t she just wear the clothes that she wanted to wear and the makeup that she wanted to wear and be the person that she wanted to be? She didn’t have any reason to keep on trying to act like Hallie.
2. When Chris “died”, she left behind her parents, three sisters, three dogs and a boyfriend. After she woke from her “coma”, she barely thought of them. If that were me, my only thought would be getting back to the people that I loved. Instead, she was far more concerned with Jamie.
3. Since Chris/Hallie knew that her job was to win Jamie’s heart, why didn’t she tell him right from the start that Mick gave her the creeps and that she had no intention of going off to France with him?
After all of this, the plot veered off into the jewel theft and I lost interest altogether.
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October 30, 2023
The premise was interesting but the protagonist grated at my nerves for the entirety of the book.
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Some of the "major" struggles she had were ever-so-conveniently resolved in the most unbelievable of ways. The stolen diamond? I'm... not even going to get into her dumb method of attempting to return it. It's okay though, just (quickly) talk your way out of that one — the guy you (or Hallie — but no one else knows that) stole from is just SO nice about having a $15m+ diamond stolen from his home. The unhinged stalker ex-lover who LITERALLY tried to commit murder and kidnapped you? Talk your way out of it! He can magically go away because you totally convinced him in a 5 minute conversation that you're a different person inside that body. It was her SOUL that he was obsessed with right? Had nothing to do with anything else! Oh, and while you're at it — let's just tell the murderer stalker guy what your real name is so he can know who your unsuspecting real family is and potentially hurt them to get to you. He's totally trustworthy...right? Yeah, let's set him loose into free society without pressing any charges so he can harm some other woman he fixates on later.
Solving the murder in your past life? Yeah, let's go right on ahead and immediately provoke the suspect and be as suspicious as humanly possible.
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Some of the "major" struggles she had were ever-so-conveniently resolved in the most unbelievable of ways. The stolen diamond? I'm... not even going to get into her dumb method of attempting to return it. It's okay though, just (quickly) talk your way out of that one — the guy you (or Hallie — but no one else knows that) stole from is just SO nice about having a $15m+ diamond stolen from his home. The unhinged stalker ex-lover who LITERALLY tried to commit murder and kidnapped you? Talk your way out of it! He can magically go away because you totally convinced him in a 5 minute conversation that you're a different person inside that body. It was her SOUL that he was obsessed with right? Had nothing to do with anything else! Oh, and while you're at it — let's just tell the murderer stalker guy what your real name is so he can know who your unsuspecting real family is and potentially hurt them to get to you. He's totally trustworthy...right? Yeah, let's set him loose into free society without pressing any charges so he can harm some other woman he fixates on later.
Solving the murder in your past life? Yeah, let's go right on ahead and immediately provoke the suspect and be as suspicious as humanly possible.
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June 11, 2020
I liked the idea of a transfer of a soul to a different body and the getting of second chances. Also , it sounds tempting somehow to be able to go and see how the life of your loved ones goes on after your passing away...
But the overly romantic moments ruined the books for me - when the powerful cliches enter on the stage, the desire to read it subsides for me. The main character is always the greatest looking, Hallie is The most beautiful woman...and bla-bla. Why not making to die a beautiful woman and make her come back into the body of an ordinary-looking gal? Why can't she fall for a regular guy who doesn't turn the heads of the girls on his way out of a room? When will we finally be able to read something about us-plain looking people who don't owe islands and don't win beauty contests for a change?
But the overly romantic moments ruined the books for me - when the powerful cliches enter on the stage, the desire to read it subsides for me. The main character is always the greatest looking, Hallie is The most beautiful woman...and bla-bla. Why not making to die a beautiful woman and make her come back into the body of an ordinary-looking gal? Why can't she fall for a regular guy who doesn't turn the heads of the girls on his way out of a room? When will we finally be able to read something about us-plain looking people who don't owe islands and don't win beauty contests for a change?
October 19, 2020
Hallie and Chris are two completely different women, two different personalities, from two different walks of life, but only one of them gets a second chance at life and love.
Until I die again was a heart-stopping, slow-motion jaw-dropping emotional real. In a book like this, I was expecting gaps and holes in the storyline but found none. The author did a great job hooking me within the first few pages. The story and character build were just about flawless. I am looking forward to reading more from this author.
Until I die again was a heart-stopping, slow-motion jaw-dropping emotional real. In a book like this, I was expecting gaps and holes in the storyline but found none. The author did a great job hooking me within the first few pages. The story and character build were just about flawless. I am looking forward to reading more from this author.
October 28, 2015
This took me a good three weeks to finish. Picked up and put down again. The heroine's idiocy got on my nerves. Or rather, the fact that in order to create some drama in this boring boring boring book ,the writer had to make her heroine stupid beyond belief. The hero was cardboard land's usual fare. I can't believe I wasted my time on this, when I could be wasting my time in more enjoyable reads. The high rating given to this book defies the reason of any primate.
September 7, 2012
I wasn't sure I was gonna like this storyline. A woman dies and then wakes up in another woman's body. At first it sounded too absurd, but it was getting great reviews so I decided to give it a try and got hooked. This was a great romantic adventure. I suggest giving this a try if you want something a little off the wall.
June 28, 2014
loved it just as much as i did last time i read it. great reread
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