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Past Lies
Shayla Kersten
Ellora's Cave
April 2008
ISBN#: 9781419916380
Contemporary/Gay
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Synopsis:
Two opposite men, two different lives, two sets of past lies.
With his twenty-year high-school reunion looming, Paul Loughton dreads
seeing the one person who could tempt him to stray from his path. Small-town
mayor, lawyer and budding politician, Paul can't — won't — admit he's gay,
even to himself. Years of denial and lies are now threatened by an
inevitable encounter. With his denial slipping, he has to come face-to-face
with temptation.
Randy Martin left his small-town roots behind before the ink on his diploma
was dry. The cliquish world of his childhood didn't have room for the weird
kid from the wrong side of the tracks. Rumors of his sexual preferences made
life that much more difficult. Now, twenty years later, he should be anxious
to rub his wealth and success in the faces of his former classmates. Except
with one of them, the urge to rub something else hasn't diminished over the
years.
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SRR GRADE: B+
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Randy Martin and Paul Loughton are two men from different
sides of the track. Randy and his mother have struggled to make ends meet in
the past, only now, after Randy's hard work do they live in comfort. Paul
comes from a family with money and influence in their small Arkansas town.
They do, however, have one thing in common, both of them are gay and been
lusting after the other since high school. Randy, though unable to tell his
mother of his sexual orientation is completely comfortable with who he is
and who he likes in his bed. Paul, on the other hand, struggles with his
thoughts of other men and what it would do to the political career his
father has planned for him. When the two meet again at a high school
reunion, Paul is unable to hide his thoughts and feelings any longer.
Past Lies is a wonderful read. Paul's journey to accept himself send
you on a roller coaster of thoughts and feelings, from ecstasy to
self-loathing. Ms. Kersten writes her heroes with incredible realism and the
secondary characters of Paul's ex-fiance and both men's parents are
realistic as well. Ms. Kersten switches view points from Randy to Paul
seamlessly and makes them easily distinguishable. Paul's ex-fiance, a
delusional, money-grubbing woman, is easily disliked, while the mother's of
both are easily loved. Randy and Paul themselves, steal your heart from page
one and keep you turning page after page.
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