What the hell? Ever noticed that? Clive Cussler does it with Dirk Pitt and numerous others do it with their characters. And it’s always a “lead-in” to great attributes, such as handsomeness, beauty, intelligence, strength, etc.
Okay, I am willing to admit that green eyes are striking, but it just seems a formula with so many writers, that I have gotten to the point where I can identify the hero/heroine when they “check into” the novel with their “piercing green eyes”.
Give me the old “gumshoe” with his blood shot patriotic, red white and blue eyes! At least those eyes I can identify with!
I know, the green-eyed thing annoyes me too. What really gets me is how vibrant everyone’s eyes in fiction are. Emerald green, ocean blue, smokey gray, chocolate brown, jet black, etc. No-one ever has muddy brown irises or boring blue orbs. Their eyes are always so gloriously brillant that they practically glow in the dark.
Another thing I hate – eye colors that don’t exist. Yes, it adds spice and mystique, but no-one actually has royal purple eyes, not even Elizabeth Taylor. This drove me nuts in Colleen McCullough’s otherwise excellent “Masters of Rome series”. Dismissing contemporary evidence that Julius Caesar had black eyes (yes, it’s rare to find a black-eyed blond, but not impossible) she instead gives him these striking blue eyes ringed with some darker color that she comments on constantly. Blurgh!
:: rolling my violet eyes (no really, check GWTW [the novel] if you don’t believe me! ::
No kidding, Quasi. It’s especially so in cheesy romance novels. Emerald eyes, auburn tresses, alabaster skin. Emerald eyes, auburn tresses, alabaster skin. Or olive. Or dusky. Never just pink or beige or tan or brown. Ugh! Enough already with the exotic color adjectives. We get it. The heroine is a goddess ona stick and the hero is Adonis reincarnate. Whatever. What a surprise. :rolleyes:
(BTW, IRL my eyes are dog brown. Not even puppy-dog brown. And myopic to boot. You can’t even see them behind these Coke bottles. So there.)
