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!
Daisy in Linda Howard’s, “Open Season”, has one brown eye and one blue eye.
The Prince of Ill Luck by Susan Dexter has a hero named Leith with odd eyes. (Fandamntabulous fantasy romance trilogy btw.)
Linda Howard’s heroine in Open Season has two different colored eyes. Man do I miss that woman when she was writing good stories.
This wasn’t a great book, but it was part of a great series (2176): Kathleen Nance’s Day of Fire had a heroine with one blue eye and one brown named (wait for it) “Day”.
Not technically paranormal, more futuristic sci-fi romance.
I liked the rest of the series. The Power of Two by Patti O’Shea is on my permanent keeper shelf.
Hmm… female puppy… this really IS a case of “Help a Bitch Out!” *ducks and runs*
I have a cat with one blue eye, one yellow, and at least 50% of people who find out this fact ask why I didn’t call him Bowie. Well, first off when I got him his eyes were still both kitten blue, and second…oh, I could do better than that! And third, I’m sure I’ve read that his eyes aren’t really different colours but one has an enlarged pupil so it appears darker. Not sure if that’s true.
He’s called Spike, since he has white hair, amazing cheekbones, occasionally kills things in a violent manner, but really is a softie who loves his mummy. Plus, IIRC Spike’s eyes went from blue to yellow.
Anyway, not helpful for your puppy. Kate Bosworth has heterachroma iridia, and the illegitimate son of the heroine in Loretta Chase’s Miss Wonderful also has odd eyes. He’s called Pip, I think. Pip or Pippa is a nice name for a dog, I think.
My only advice is that names seem to shape a pet’s personality. My own Demon Puppy is called Pepper and she sure is feisty. Her predecessor was called Honey and she was very sweet. And I once had a cat called Tinkerbell. He really was a fairy.
My son actually has one brown eye and one green eye. We keep telling him that someday this will cause girls to follow him about with mad devotion, but so far he seems uninterested in the prospect.
He has yet to exhibit any paranormal powers, unless the stamina to play Wii for over eight hours without a break counts.
Darkest Kiss and the heterochromiatic hero is Lucien, and he’s the incarnation of death, so… no, not a good female puppy name.
I’m voting Katsa. I had a malamute named Sasha. Close enough to appeal to me. And we shortened it to Sa. Well, Sasa-poo. And now I fit my spam word. red32.
How funny. My fingers started typing “Stalkings” in my reply and I went back and corrected it because I thought they were having an off day 😉
I like Katsa as well! I have to say, though, that in my house she’d probably get nicknamed “Dogsa” half the time. 😉
Captcha word: one82. Makes me think of Blink 182.
I like Katsa, too. I am a big fan of YA lit.
OTOH, both my dogs were named after the Christ, Jezua for the boy dog and Jesusa for the girl dog. Not sure why.
Idk about a paranormal romance heroine, but there was a character named “Thankful” in Ann Rinaldi’s The Quilt Trilogy books who had one blue/green eye and one brown. She was her father’s favorite daughter because he also had this character trait. She was kind of spoiled, but ends up being kidnapped by Indians and that turns her around. She has a daughter, Walking Breeze, that I think also has one blue/green eye and one brown, which lets her grandfather know that she truly is Thankful’s daughter after her mother dies (or something like that). Interesting young adult series with some romance sprinkled in.
~lAUra
(Sorry to be so late; I’m new)
“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. ”
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If you choose “Graceling” you’ll have a paranormal / pop culture twofer—Gracie Allen had one blue eye and one green eye.