Does beauty matter in a heroine? I’m not talking about knock-em dead gorgeous beauty. This doesn’t come out of left field for me. One of the heroine’s in one of my WIP has a facial scar that she’s really hung-up on. It’s a factor only to her, the heroes have their own problems.
It got me thinking about stories where the heroine is described as plain or just not beautiful except to the hero. I’m sure I’ve read stories where the heroine has a scar, but I can’t remember the name of any specific books.
When I’m reading, I do envision the heroine, but scars wouldn’t matter to me.
So would a scar or bad scars matter to you?
Shelly Laurenston has a book out called Pack Challenge, the heroine has a severe scar running down her face. I thought it made the book more interesting. Theolyn Boese has bad scars on her secondary female charcter in Crimson Shackles. I also remember (vaugely) reading a historical several years ago where the heroine had many scars on her back from repeated beatingd by her crazy guardian. Even Catherine Coulter used a scar on a heroine as a plot point. the “malformed big toe”, which was actually a deep scar running dwn the character’s leg, was something the hero had to overcome, not from his poiny of view, but from hers.
So all in all a scar can come in handy in making difficulties for the hero to win over the heroine.
Thanks Valerie. I remember both the Catherine Coulter book and Pack Challenge now that you’ve mentioned them. And yeah, it’s causing the heroine and thus the hero plenty of worry.