Stephanie's Menage [Paperback]

Mari Byrne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 2004

Stephanie Armand, a successful Hollywood makeup artist, owns her own company and leads an active life. Being her own boss allows her to do things like going to NASA Space Camp, climbing mountains, and fulfilling every dream she has ever had...well, almost every dream. She still has one fantasy that remains unfulfilled, which is to have a ménage à trois with two men. Mitch and Kristain are identical twins and are more than eager to satisfy Stephanie's desires. These twins, however, have a secret, and one that will force Stephanie to make a choice...

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About the Author

I have been writing for quite a while now and love finding out what goes on in the minds of my characters. I am the daughter of a third generation military family who grew up all over the world and happily married to a loving husband who gifted me with two adorable children I had the pleasure of birthing. All three enjoy dragging me away from my characters and showing me the world "outside". (I still think camping should involve "Room Service"!) I am also a voracious reader who devours books and chocolate in between family, writing, and work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (August 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419950134
• ISBN-13: 978-1419950131
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,000,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book. Couldn't wait for 2nd book in series, July 27, 2005

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Michelle Johnson "Romance Queen" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stephanie's Menage (Paperback)

I totally and completly disagree with the previous review. I think Mari Byrne is an exceptional talent and I believe the series will only get better as it progresses. This book is a all around great story about opening up and trying new things, about love unexpected and embraced. It also offers political intrigue and let's you see into a world where the women are the ones in the dominant positions in politics. I loved this book and I think that Queens Warriors was even better ,and I can't wait for the third book in the series. In one aspect I do somewhat agree with the previous reviewer. If your looking for a book that contains bondage and submission this is not the book for you. If your looking for a book about unconditional love with hotttt hotttt love scenes this is the book for you. I think the characters were great. I totally connected with Stephanie and I could almost feel the brothers love for her, and their desperation for her to accept them for who and what they are. Great Book I give it 4 stars.

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All Around Disappointing!, May 8, 2005

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C. Hamburg "Erotica lover" (Midwest US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stephanie's Menage (Paperback)

A book about a menage a tois with gorgeous twin brothers ought to make your breath come faster and your pulse race...right? Well, not this book.

While the plot itself isn't TOO awful--twin princes from another realm needing a single shared bride to replace the evil and vicious queen currently on the throne--it needs a great deal more characterization and fewer narrative gaps to make it readable. The brothers are almost indisguishable personality-wise and the heroine, while better drawn, is still rather one dimensional.

The sex scenes were also notably amateurish, by an author who obviously has no experience with this sort of thing and less imagination. For example, the author tells you that the twins are into bondage and very kinky sex, and she talks a great deal about all the sex toys they have available in the apartment with them but then only one of the (many) sex scenes that follows features even a tiny bit of bondage.

All in all, there are lots of interesting possibilities here but the bad writing and the lack of follow through on the ideas make for a disappointing read.

Try instead: Binding Krista by Jory Strong.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars menages at their best, January 5, 2010

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V. Stokes "ravensknight" (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stephanie's Menage (Paperback)

I do love all romance books out there, but if you are in the mood for one with alot more kick this one is for you. Romance at its best with a great plot of overthrowing government of another world. and between you and me its nice to get away from this world and read about another. This story is of two princes who meet their one their true love although at first it doesnt seem that way, it like some people takes a bit to figure out she is the one for them. Read it you wont be dispointed.