This wasn't the cover of the audiobook, which was a lone woman licking a finger, but both covers don't reflect the book, which I thought was a sad story of longing and misplaced honour? where was the joy? Anyway, it was very Maya Banks, which is good but also reflects a sameness. Just as the covers miss the mark, the title is worse. The word brazen doesn't describe Jasmine - what does it apply to? ( )

I'm not sure if it was because this was an audio book but something bothered me about their story. They rescued her as a a teen being forced into prostitution. She's a virgin and yet she behaves as if she's as comfortable with a ménage as an experienced person. While the sex scenes are hot, I had a hard time believe how she could be so comfortable with it. Trying to start a ménage isn't easy as this story shows.
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DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: One woman’s campaign to win the hearts of the two men she loves.

Jasmine left the Sweetwater Ranch and the Morgan brothers, no longer able to bear the painful dilemma of loving them both. After a year away in which she gains new perspective, she returns home with one goal. To make Seth and Zane Morgan hers.

Jaz may have left an innocent girl, but she’s returned a beautiful, sensual woman. Seth and Zane aren’t prepared for the full on assault she launches and each are battling an attraction they’ve fought for years. She wants them both, but Seth has no intention of sharing his woman. It’s up to her to change his mind because she can’t and won’t choose between two men she loves with equal passion. For her, it’s all or nothing. ( )

Maya Banks once again delivers a great erotic romance with sexy men and a fun likable heroine. Jasmine is determined to win the hearts of both the men she loves. The problem is that they see her as still the young girl they rescued several years ago. Jasmine must make them see her as the full grown woman she has become.

Years ago Jasmine witnessed Seth and Zane having sex with the same woman. Since that night, she has dreamed of being the one woman for the both men. She knows the guys have no trouble sharing a woman, but she isn't sure they would accept her as that one woman to be shared because with her it would mean feelings and emotions were involved. With the other woman it was just sex and mutual lust. Jasmine wants it all, the love, the lust and both men sharing her and only her.

After a year away in Paris, Jasmine is ready to make her move and go after the men she loves. Zane has always been the one she goes to first. He's more easy going and has covered for Jasmine on a number of times to keep her out of trouble with Seth, the eldest and most dominate of the brothers. So Jasmine sets her sights on first winning over Zane, then going after Seth.

She definitely has both men's attentions as soon as she steps off the plane. They see her as a gorgeous sexy woman and that sends the men into a tailspin as they don't know how to control their lust. Jasmine continues her assault with skimpy bikinis, sexy belly button rings and reasons to cuddle with the men. She drives them to distraction until finally Zane can't help but kiss and touch her. But still he won't make love to her. She decides she needs to change her game plan and go after Seth.

She and Seth both get more than they bargained for and it drives a wedge between the three of them that no one is sure how to fix. Jasmine begins to self doubt what she's done when the brothers are fighting over her and the brothers begin to rethink their objections to being with Jasmine.

This book is HOT and sexy with great characters and a good plot that moves along well. There is sexual tension and steamy love scenes, along with fun dialog. ( )

"Brazen" is the first in Queen-of-the-menage Maya Banks 'Brazen' series. Her sex scenes are very erotic and her characters are very tortured and normally I like that. But there was just something about this one that kept needling at me and kept me from enjoying it as much as her other books.

Brothers Seth and Zane are in the big city bar after a successful presentation for their ranch when they are approached by a very young woman offering one of them sex. After hustling her out of the bar and the out of the sight of her pimp, they take her for some much needed sustenance and get the whole story from the sixteen year old with nowhere to go. Just like that, Jasmine becomes a part of their life. They take her to their ranch, hire a housekeeper/mother figure, and work to erase the shadows from Jasmine's eyes.

Several years later, and after a year in Paris away from the ranch and Seth and Zane, Jasmine is ready to return. Her time away was good for her and hopefully, now, the 'boys' will see her as the woman she is instead of the girl they rescued. Jasmine wants that very much as she loves BOTH of them...as a woman loves. But Jasmine will need all her wiles and all her patience to woo both men into a sharing relationship.

So! Yes, they both love her...THAT way and yes, the brothers have a hard time with the thought of 'sharing' even though they've participated in threesomes before. But that was for fun, not for life and Seth especially isn't sure he can accept a situation like what Jasmine is asking for.

Maybe what bothered me about this one is that Jasmine is obviously the aggressor in this relationship. Why does that bug me? I honestly have no idea...but it does. The younger brother is quick to fall to her seductions, but the older brother Seth, the authority figure and responsible caretaker, has some very serious issues with Jasmine. I guess I felt that Jasmine didn't give his thoughts the serious contemplation they deserved. Or maybe it was because I felt she pretty much forced herself on him...but either way, it left me irritated and little appalled.

However, it all worked out and the three all get their HEA and the book was pretty darn hot. I'm not sorry I read it and maybe I just need to open my mind a bit more and this book can help with that. It's not one for my keeper shelf, but it wasn't a 'wall-banger' either! ( )