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Book Blurb

College friends Joon, Tae, and Sangsun parted ways after an aborted attempt at a threesome. Ten years later, life has carried them down very different paths, but Joon misses his friends and decides to invite them to his home in South Korea for Christmas. He believes they belong together, but convincing the others to defy tradition and try again will take faith, hope, and a lot of talking—especially since all three of them are still in the closet.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2014 Advent Calendar package "Celebrate!".

 

Book Review

Missing one man you love is bad enough, but missing two must be worse. Living in South Korea, the three college friends in this story never really stood a chance ten years ago. Not only is being gay against tradition and totally unacceptable to the majority of society, but them living in a triad is at least as unthinkable. When one of them takes the initiative to invite the other two to spend Christmas together, he is hoping for more, but he knows it won’t be easy. All three now have careers to lose as well as their reputations, and with the success they have each achieved, how likely is it for them to give up all of that?

Joon is clearly the peacemaker of the three, the one who links them all together. He is a teacher now, but the emptiness he feels on an emotional level is getting to him. Tae is a tough soldier, but he also feels lonely; the hookups he can get in the military don’t compare to what he wants, and what he can have with Joon and Sangsun. Sangsun is probably the hardest nut to crack. He is a VP In his father’s company and while he has worked very hard to get there he has everything he could ever want—as far as material possessions go.

All three men have woven a web of lies and self-deceit around themselves in an attempt to believe their own propaganda. They can’t be gay, and they are certainly not in love with not just one but two men. It takes quite some talking between them for them to start seeing the truth again. Admitting vulnerability doesn’t come easy to any of them, and it was fascinating to see them struggle and grow as they all realized the only possible solution for them to be happy was to accept a new beginning in every sense of the word.

If you like emotional stories with the gradual emergence of self-knowledge, if three men struggling to find balance in their lives sounds interesting, and if you’re looking for a read that is touching and ends in a great happy-for-now, then you will probably enjoy this short story.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Short Story, 29 pages/6928 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-December-2014
Price	$1.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/three-wise-men-by-connie-bailey-3164-b