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Summary: A reader from Baltimore, Maryland
Review: I don't read much fiction, and have never read a "gay" or "lesbian" novel. However I would encourage readers who do not typically look for "gay and lesbian" novels to read this one. Juliet Sarkessian warmly describes feelings of lost so beautifully: loss of one's past, loss of one's future, loss of one's family and friends, loss of one's home. She also can powerfully recall moments from the lives of the main characters with great clarity and color. There are chapters here for many different types of readers. Ms. Sarkessian writes from the first person for three different characters. All are done with much carefulness, warmth and reflection. The author handles topics that should be brought out into the artistic community for contemplation without prejudice. Juliet without hesitation and without hatred (towards life's unfairness) gives her characters a chance to live their lives with the hope of becoming whole and healed. This novel helps one to better understand how remembrances, loss, loyalty and the search for completeness shapes one's destiny.
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Summary: Straight Man says "buy it"
Review: I don't read much fiction, and have never read a "gay" or "lesbian" novel. However I would encourage readers who do not typically look for "gay and lesbian" novels to read this one. Juliet Sarkessian warmly describes feelings of lost so beautifully: loss of one's past, loss of one's future, loss of one's family and friends, loss of one's home. She also can powerfully recall moments from the lives of the main characters with great clarity and color. There are chapters here for many different types of readers. Ms. Sarkessian writes from the first person for three different characters. All are done with much carefulness, warmth and reflection. The author handles topics that should be brought out into the artistic community for contemplation without prejudice. Juliet without hesitation and without hatred (towards life's unfairness) gives her characters a chance to live their lives with the hope of becoming whole and healed. This novel helps one to better understand how remembrances, loss, loyalty and the search for completeness shapes one's destiny.
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Summary: Trio Sonata
Review: Ms. Sarkessian's novel tenderly invites you into the lives of 3 people. At first glance you believe their lives to be of a totally different color but once you delve into the characters and their separate worlds you realize that they (we) are not so different. We all have a level of need for love and security while each of us also have some level of dysfunction. Although some readers may feel that the book might be politically incorrect, i on on the other hand, as a straight female living in a politically incorrect world found her novel to be an unthreatening, sometimes sad but realistic introduction into many lifestyes. I was totally captivated from the first page to the last. Does Ms. Sarkessiann have a sequel in mind?
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Summary: A reader from Baltimore, Maryland
Review: Trio Sonata is a wonderfully written novel. Here's something new...a story about an erotic relationship between two gay men and a straight woman. Off-beat subject matter, yet a story so beautifully told. I just love Ms. Sarkessian's writing style. The development of characters is superb. I felt I got to really know each of the three main characters, enabling me to feel compassion for all of them. After they entered territory none of them had ever explored, I couldn't imagine how their situation could ever be resolved...keeping me even more enthralled. Sarkessian, however, cleverly handled the broken pieces. The ending made me cry and it made me smile. It was real and I was captivated. I highly recommend this book and look forward to future works by this brilliant new author.
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Summary: Threesome
Review: With a successful business and a kind boyfriend, Janna has almost everything she wants, but she still feels that something's missing. She becomes friends with Alex and Philip, a young gay couple who soon end up living in her huge house. When she stumbles upon them having sex, she begins an awakening which changes the course of everyone's lives. Insightful and sensuous, "Trio Sonata" is a beautifully written novel that unfortunately has a glaring flaw. Most of the novel is told in the third person point of view, except in the several flashbacks into early experiences by Janna, Philip, and Alex, which are all told in the first person point of view. This creates confusion in the reader and almost derails a wonderful story. Sarkessian's deft writing keeps the reader going, and ultimately salvages the novel from a severely awkward structure.
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