Giving a thought and a twist to any genre can end up leading to an interesting crossbreeding. What of Jew Deveraux, Or better jude gilliam, the author behind the pseudonym, is the romantic gender as sustenance. And yet this author born in 1947 is capable of offering second readings with which to open the reading range.
Love stories in different periods of history or even wrapped in fantastic proposals when not science fiction. The thing is, Jude knows that love goes well with everything. It's just about alternating scenarios to convince readers of other genres or to invite staunch fans of the romantic genre to new currents.
This was the formula for success with which Jude managed to dedicate himself to narrative since the 70s, far exceeding the 60 books published today, with individual novels or forming successful sagas, trilogies or series.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Jude Gilliam
The knight in shining armor
The tenth installment of the Montgomery saga represented a considerable leap in quality in the work of the American writer, or at least in a marked international accolade ...
Little can you imagine, when you delve into the love affairs of Dougless Montgomery, that the thing is going to acquire a point of science fiction.
The present and the more remote past collude for Dougless to find a bewildering love affair, that of the knight Nicholas Stattford, who has come from the XNUMXth century to revitalize the bewildered Dougless's trust in love. Love in two planes, passion from a mirror in which chivalric overtones give history a touch of a furtive palace encounter.
A romantic proposal that, thanks to fantasy, manages to breathe a new wind into the love affair. The horizon of the impossible, of the divine slip that has allowed that encounter appears with the chiaroscuro of the predictably ephemeral.
But precisely for this reason, love becomes more intense in a singular reading in which an exquisite setting of the disparate chronological scenarios that confer absolute credibility to everything that happens is also appreciated.
The scent of lavender
If in the first reference work (at least for me) by this author we travel to the past to experience an impossible love, this time we enjoy an enigmatic proposal in the purest style of the mystery genre and that opens the Edilean saga.
Jocelyn, our protagonist, finds herself orphaned by her mother and disengaged with her father, already given over to new loves ..., Her approach to the elderly Edilean Harcourt seems like a kind of escape from the world. With that woman she is at ease, under the protection of her Memories and vivid tales of bygone times, Jocelyn finds peace.
Both reach a maximum level of rapport and when the old woman dies, Jocelyn becomes the sole heir to all her assets. And the truth is that the captivating stories of a woman about to leave this world turn into crumbs compared to the great secrets that inheritance harbors.
Jocelyn has some clues to follow the clues to a great enigma. Along the way, he will also find new emotional supports that the old woman herself seemed to have provided for him ...
Sweet lies
Michael and Samantha are two characters with a difficult fit, at least from the outset. The question is to discern how the author is capable of creating a story with room for two very different people.
The issue has to do with complementarity, with the friendship that can arise between very different people but with a common mission and a good predisposition to listen and understand the reasons for the difference.
Under this interpretive background with which to probe Jude's ability to intertwine opposite characters, we must also assess the dynamism of a story in which the unique joint mission of the vitalist Michael, in the care of the poor and timid Samantha Elliot, manages to activate both towards a search that only in the synthesis of two opposite personalities can find its best goal.
