I recently read that this series is approaching 500,000 words. I wonder how many of those words are “Lex’s golden eyes.” I get it. Her eyes are gold. Also, she is “the woman he loves” and “the love of his life, and Haley has “thin lips” and her father looks like an owl.
I like the story, I really do. I might even listen to the next one. But the eighth-grade intimacy and the grinding repetition of phrases really makes my cringe.
Yes, Greek epics use the same phrase to describe the same thing over and over. That’s because they weren’t written down and orators had to memorize them. The tower may be madness, but this isn’t Sparta.