Ames’ review of Kiss Across Time by Teal Ceagh.
Taylor Yates just got fired from her university job for insisting that the fifth-century British poet and playwright, Inigo Domhnall, existed. When she hears the poet’s lyrics in a death metal song, she engineers a meeting with the dark-eyed, dark-haired lead singer, Brody Gallagher. An unintended kiss sends them spinning back to the poet’s time, when Saxons were pillaging King Arthur’s Britain, and a warrior expects a proper farewell from his woman before he sets off for war.
Brody’s all for kissing her again. More, he’d like her to try kissing his friend and lover, Veris, just to see what will happen. His tall, blond, blue-eyed Saxon friend, Veris.
I don’t know what made me pick this book up but it was definitely a quick, interesting read.
Taylor is at a death metal concert with her friend Andy. She heard his music through their apartment wall a few weeks ago and she’s intrigued by some lyrics she heard. She wants to find out who wrote them, because they’re from a poem of the man she’s researching, Inigo Domhnall. A man she got fired from her university job for believing he even existed. Taylor is at the concert, hoping to get backstage when the lead singer approaches her…on the second balcony. He kisses her and they’re thrown back in time, to a time where they loved each other and where they’re saying a bittersweet goodbye as they can hear their enemies attacking their village. Powerful stuff! And exactly the ticket Taylor needed to get backstage to talk to the singer and find out who wrote those lyrics. But things get even more complicated backstage when Taylor meets the lead singer, Brody’s, lover, Veris. Because kissing Veris throws them back in time too! Taylor quickly realizes that things are not what they seem with these two sexy hot men…
Ok, this was an interesting story. I didn’t find it particularly hot, but the concept behind Brody and Veris’ past was interesting. I’m also not a fan of time travel, but this is more like going back into someone’s memory. And there’s a good explanation for why this is happening to Taylor, Veris and Brody. I don’t want to give too much away – but there is a connection to an Arthurian legend. I do plan on reading the sequel, Kiss Across Swords, and hopefully that will shed light on how Brody and Veris became what they did. I thought Taylor’s bit of resistance towards the end of this short story was a bit too much – what did it really bring to the story? My not liking this part could be that it wasn’t explained until afterwards.
All in all, interesting concept. I’m giving it a 2.75 out of 5. I’d give it a bit higher, but there were some editing mistakes that would have been taken care of with a more thorough proof-reading.
This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
Sounds like an interesting concept but I dunno, I’m not big into time travel. 😛 I’ll wait for your review of the enxt one!