Guest Lightning Review: Beauty’s Beasts by Teal Ceagh

Posted July 31, 2010 by Book Binge Guest Blogger in Reviews | 0 Comments

Kris’ review of Beauty’s Beasts by Teal Ceagh.

Riley Carson Connors is yanked out of Pittsburgh and coaxed to New York by two tall, sexy strangers. Nicholas and Damian are the only people in the world who know anything about her mother and father, and what they know is terrifying. She must face a powerful enemy who killed both her parents, who were the best at what they did.

But while the truth about Riley’s family history is a powerful magnet, Damian and Nicholas prove to be even more compelling. Former lovers brought together because they gave their word to Riley’s mother, the two powerful vampires play erotic mind games with her, each hiding a sexual agenda that Riley can’t begin to guess.

But it seems to involve driving her out of her mind with the sort of pleasure only a centuries-old lover would know how to give.

This was a neat paranormal vampire ménage story. Damian and Nicholas show up on Riley doorstep with information about the parents she never knew. She goes with them to help them in their quest to defeat the wizard and gargoyle that killed her parents and have returned to find and destroy her.

The only thing that bugged me about this story was the timetable and her training. Her mother had trained since childhood to fight bad paranormal things and she trains for about 10 hours, with no previous training, and then is ready to face the bad guys. Even Buffy took longer than that.

Besides that I really liked the story. The characters were interesting, the storyline was pretty fast paced to keep me interested and the love scenes were hot. All that equals a good story to me. I give it a 4 out of 5.

This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.