Renae has a unique HaBO request – anyone want to help her name her dog after a romance heroine?
It’s a bit of a variant on the usual HaBO but here’s the deal…. I have a
new puppy, and she needs a name. She has one blue eye and one brown eye,
which immediately made me think “didn’t I read a paranormal romance with a
heroine with two different color eyes? and didn’t I like it?”. But of
course, I don’t remember anything else about the book, or if the heroine is
truly deserving of my dog being named after her.
What, you don’t want to name her “Heterochromia?” Call her Chromia for short? Happy new puppy, Renae!
In Kristin Cashore’s GRACELING, the heroine (Katsa, which is a great name for a dog) has two different-colored eyes. Which indicates that she has a paranormal talent.
It’s an awesome book.
Also, if this dog is an Australian Shepherd, welcome to the world of Aussie owners! They are amazing, wonderful dogs.
LOVE Cashore’s GRACELING. I second Katsa!
There was a heroine in the second ” Dark Ones” novel (by Katie MacAlister) that had two different color eyes, I believe her name was Allegra…
Apparently, the one blue/one brown eye is not restricted to paranormals. I remember an Edith Layton Regency in which the hero has one blue eye and one brown. I don’t remember his name—but if you ever get a male dog with the same eye-color pattern, there’s a book to check for a name.
That’s Christian Jarrow, Lord North, in Lord of Dishonour. Love that book!
kirshpgh has it for sure. Katie MacAlister’s “Sex and the Single Vampire” had Allegra or Allie, a (ghost) summoner, and it was fabulous and funny. I think it’s impossible to NOT like Katie MacAlister!
Doesn’t Alys in Mary Jo Putney’s excellent book The Rake also have one brown and one blue eye?
Alys would be a good doggie name.
I agree with kirshpgh. That was the first thing that came to mind. Second is not Romance…..but Lilith Saintcrow’s Jill Kismet series has different colored eyes as well. Love the name Kismet!
Good luck!
Well, I know this is a hero, not a heroine, but there’s also Qhuinn in JR Ward’s BDB series. All the males in the series have something “wrong” with them, but the curses in the second generation are slightly less obvious than the first generation (turning into a dragon, sexual slavery for 200 years, yanno, things like that). Qhuinn has two different colored eyes, and Qhuinn could be a female name, too (without the extraneous H, of course).
In The Demon You Know by Christine Warren , the heroine, Abby Baker, has eyes of different colors.
In The Dog Next Door by Sean Michael, the hero is a vet shapeshifter who becomes a dog during the full moon. In both forms he has one blue and one brown eye. The name is Keifer, which is a great call name for a dog, male or female.
Even if you don’t choose the name, it is a sweet short story.
Just name your dog David Bowie, it will be awesome.
@Jennifer Armintrout: Groan. That’s just wrong.
I can’t stand her work, but fortunately the world of literature is big enough for us all 🙂
I’d go with Alys, but doesn’t that cat guy by that crazy woman have two different colored eyes? Let me see if I can narrow that down a bit. 😉 Okay, cat guy = Rejar, crazy woman = Dara Joy.
In THE DEMON YOU KNOW by Christine Warren, the heroine, Abby Baker, has one blue eye and one brown eye. Abby isn’t the most interesting name but its cute. The book is a paranormal. And Abby has brown hair so if your dog is brown, it would really suit her.
I forgot to say that THE DEMON YOU KNOW is a paranormal romance. I think its a good (though not great) book. The heroine falls in love with a demon (although demons in this book aren’t what we think of when we think about demons.)
The only person I can think off offhand with different-coloured eyes is Jane Seymour (the actress who plays beautiful heroines with long hair, not the third wife of Henry VIII). What, you don’t want to name your puppy after Dr Quinn Medicine Woman? Whyever wouldn’t you?
My first guess would be Riley Jenson, half werewolf, half vampire. I thought she had eyes that are two different colors. I will have to double check. She is heroine of Keri Arthur’s Guardian series.
It’s not a paranormal romance, but Linda Howard’s OPEN SEASON has a heroine with one blue eye and one green one: Daisy Minor. (She gets a puppy and entertains the reader by trying out different names for him.)
Ooh! Wish I could reread!
Doesn’t one of Gena Showalter’s books have a hero with different colored eyes? Too bad I can’t remember a name, or even a title…
I second the welcome to Aussies, or Border Collies, or Shelties…(all breeds with dual colored eyes..and all breeds that have given me much PUPPYLOVIN tm). I think Daisy, or Katsa both would be lovely names…PLEASE let us know what you decide!
Wow, there are so many… almost as bad as women with black hair and a white streak in fantasy novels.
My first thought was Brenna from Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series, but she has brown eyes with shards of blue in the centres, so doesn’t quite fit the profile.
My second thought was Delerium, from Gaiman’s Sandman series, but… no. No.
I’m liking Katsa and Alys, so far.
@Alex Ward: you don’t?! Oh, I always laugh so hard at her stuff. But you’re right, the literary world is luckily big enough for all types. 🙂
@willaful
OH GOD. I just hurt myself laughing. Mostly because the minute I read that I said to myself, “Dara Joy?”
How about Melusine? It’s the first in a fabulous series of books by Sarah Monette; probably my favorite fantasy series ever. It’s the hero, Felix Harrowgate, who has two different colored eyes. His blue eye doesn’t always see what is in front of him well, but sometimes sees other things.
Seriously, if you have not read this series it is so well worth it. Felix and his brother Mildmay the Fox are told in separate first-person voice with such honesty and accuracy it makes your heart hurt.
I vote for Riley from post above!
You could skip the whole paranormal thing and just call her David Bowie?
There is Allegra (Allie) Telford, who had two different colored eyes and had to wear sunglasses in Katie MacAlister’s Sex and the Single Vampire. She also had a limp.
In Sonya Bateman’s novel Master of None, the girlfriend has two different colored eyes. Her name is Jazz, short for Jasmine. She is a mechanic and get away driver.
I third Katsa. Graceling is totally worth having a dog being named after one of it’s characters. 🙂
Though I would make sure the dog doesn’t have identity issues because of it. ;P
Oh yeah, and Lilith Saintcrow has a series about a woman with different colored eyes. Her name is Jill.
Yeah, but, on the Katsa thing…eventually owners shorten the names of thier pets or give them “pet” names.
Like Katsa would eventually be reduced to Kat. A dog named Kat? Okay, I’m twisted enough to see it.
For no real reason, I chose the name Amanda for my dog. She eventually ended up as “pupper” It was because she was a beagle/jack russel mix that retained the baby face of a young beagle.
Choose whatever name you want now, but it probably won’t stick.
I love, love, love Katsa. Graceling was a great fantasy novel, although I’m not sure that it’s exactly a romance. Congrats on the new puppy by the way!
@Jennifer Armintrout & @oldbitey: You don’t mean Jareth?
Ha! used67: I used to love Labyrinth and I’ve seen it at least 67 times
Nothing wrong with that, our cat is named Snoopy and I always intended to have a dog called Garfield
I don’t see an issue there—I once had a gold fish named David Attenborough 2.
I finally know one!
Daisy in Linda Howard’s Open Season has one blue eye and one green eye.
I might add that my grandmother had one blue eye and one brown eye. I’ve been told that she was also half blonde and half brunette (I only remember her hair being gray).
Never mind. I missed the paranormal part of the request.
I don’t know anything about the aforementioned books (although I worship Jareth as Goblin King) but I think forget Katsa, “Graceling” is a gorgeous dog name.