Just Once [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: 2013991 (January 1, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0515120626
• ISBN-13: 978-0515120622
• ASIN: B001KTOHJU
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,271,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

JILL MARIE LANDIS'S twenty+ novels have earned distinguished awards and slots on such national bestseller lists as the USA TODAY Top 50 and the New York Times Best Sellers Plus. She is a seven-time finalist for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in both Single Title and Contemporary Romance as well as a Golden Heart and RITA Award winner.

Her works include historical romances, contemporary single title romance with a hint of suspense, inspirational historical romances, and most recently the new Tiki Goddess Mystery series that launched with the successful Mai Tai One On.

Jill Marie resides in Hawaii with her husband. When she's not writing or sitting on the beach reading, she enjoys visiting with family and friends, raising orchids, working in her garden, plunking on the ukulele, dancing the hula and quilting, but not all at once.

She enjoys hearing from readers at www.jillmarielandis.com
facebook, and at www.thetikigoddess.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable!, February 11, 2002

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Heather (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Once (Paperback)

I had been very much so looking forward to reading this book after reading "Blue Moon", unaware that it was the third in a series, already having started them out of order, I decided to go ahead and read "Just Once" before "Daydreamer". I did read through the 3 other reviews here of this book and must say I'm a bit disapointed in them personally.

I throughly enjoyed this book, Jemma was very enduring with her strong will, sensibility, and determination, it was quite interesting to see her pair up with Hunter, who, although the book doesn't describe him as such, came across to me as a rather shy man, quite taken with this girls vocal attitude and blunt requests.

As for a predicable plot? Well we all know that when we sit down to a romance novel how the end is going to be... that's the point of reading a romance novel, there are no broken hearts and unfulfilled dreams in the end. It's nice to excape to such a land every once in a while. It's how they come over their conflicts and the adventure inbetween that makes the story.

I myself loved this book and was very happy to visit Noah once again, and I'm almost happy that I had read "Blue Moon" before hand... knowing that he does have a happy ending despite his scarring accident in the end of "Just Once".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kentucky frontier story with predictible plot, March 24, 2001

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Carol Peterson Hennekens (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Once (Paperback)

Landis' first book, Sunflower, is one of the most powerful romance novels I've ever read and has a permanent place on my keeper shelf. I keep hoping that she'll produce another masterpiece. "Just Once" isn't it.

This book is simply a little to predictible (or maybe I've read too many novels with this plot). A woman in distress is saved by a man who, in spite of himself, falls for her. She makes a fool of herself trying to be useful, which she's never been in her pampered life. Jemma and Hunter are likeable but hardly memorable.

Though it's not advertised as part of a trilogy, it appears that this is the second in a series of related books - Daydreamer would be the first and Blue Moon the third.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story and memorable characters, March 1, 2001

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jet ski (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Once (Paperback)

This was a great love story. I have read many of Jill Marie Landis' books, and this is just another example of why I love her books. The hero is a strong, lonely man who needs the love of a good woman in order to trust again. The heroine is determined to do just that. It's a beautiful love story, it made me cry because there were some parts that were so bittersweet. The characters will stay with you long after you close the book.