You know when you start a new book or series, and you think that “yeah, this really has potential”? One where you like the world building, characters, tone, everything. Well, maybe not everything. I have finally gotten to Jennifer Estep‘s Elemental Assassin series, and so far, so good…except for this one little nit pick that is driving me crazy. It is the constant repetition of colors, like when someone is pulling up to a house, for example. It is described as something like “a gray house with a black roof and white flower boxes with yellow flowers by the green grass…” Color color color. Hair color is also a big one to be mentioned over and over, with Gin’s bleached blonde hair, Finn’s mahogany hair, etc.
But the biggest and most glaring, by far, is the beating to death of eye color. I did a search on my Kindle for ipad, and Gin’s gray eyes are mentioned 21 times, Donovan’s hazel eyes I think are mentioned an even 20, things like that, Finn’s green eyes are up there, too. And they were sometimes weirdly inserted. Like “I moved until he was looking straight into my gray eyes.” I know it is a small thing, but I noticed it right from the start and now I just can’t un-see it. I know it is a nit pick in a book I am otherwise completely enjoying, but it is taking me out of the story every time it comes up.
Your turn. Do you have any nitpicks that drive you up the wall? Any authors or series that have a quirk that you find it hard to get by? Do those little things pull you out of the story, too, or do you get used to it and move on?
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