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grerp: the PERSONAL side of AAR Rachel

Author Profiles Series: Judith Ivory

posted Saturday, 1 March 2008
Author

Judith Ivory Judy Cuevas

 

 

 Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Genre 

Romance

Recurring Story Elements

French settings; rich living, fairy tale homages; Continental morality; cabin and road romances; profound sexual tension, hero/heroine power plays including during sex, detailed sensual description, with a focus on a specific sense for a specific book [sight: Bliss, sound: The Proposition, smell: Beast]; generous use of metaphor; heroes and heroines who are isolated, often to the point of loneliness by their uniqueness, be it appearance, talent, intelligence or social station - frequently this isolation is mirrored by the characters' physical surroundings; psychologically complex, controlling, frequently petty secondary characters; rushed endings.

Heroines are: Proto-feminists, physically diverse, although usually a bit extreme in appearance, bright, ambitious, independent minded, preferring to be in control of themselves and willing to risk much to be able to, confined uncomfortably by the expectations of society, uninterested in the usual day-to-day socializing that has historically governed a woman's existence.  
Heroes are:
Powerful, wealthy or well born, morally ambiguous, talented, brilliant, charismatic, attractive, naturally stylish, vain, manipulative, unpossessed of romantic notions about sex (or women).
Ivory's world is:
Often banal or petty in the everyday; friendship and love, as well as mutual understanding between people, helps to dispel this to some degree, but what really matters, life's true necessity is art and beauty.  
Ivory likes:
Dancing, art, natural beauty, well dressed men, rich, beautiful surroundings, lavish accoutrements, France, French, complicated personalities, personal freedom.
Ivory dislikes:
Conventional morality, controlling sexist men.
Favorite Ivory book
Bliss Judy Cuevas
Number of Ivory books read
8
Biggest Glom
5 books between January and June 2000
Other grerp mentions
Bliss review, The Proposition review, Angel in a Red Dress review, Beast review

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