She's completely off base in some things!
I finished the 32nd book in the series, Treachery in Death, yesterday and decided to go back and re-read from the beginning (yes, even I have my guilty pleasures, LOL!). I've just gotten up to the third book, where Eve is introduced to Leonardo, who will design her wedding gown, for her first consult. He says that Eve is 5' 9" and weighs one hundred and twenty pounds!
Folks, I'm 5' 2", and one-twenty is at the lower end of my healthy weight range: There is no way that Eve Dallas can weigh 120 and be fit and tough enough to handle all the a**-busting she does in each novel!
Plus, Rourke, Eve's love-interest, is described as being 6' 1" (or 2") and weighing 173. My husband, God love him, is 5" 11" and got down to 170 just before I gave birth to our daughter 15 years ago. The last month of my pregnancy, I outweighed him - and he was toooooo slim! He'd been biking to and from work and had, frankly, become quite scrawny, IMHO. At 6'1 or 2", I certainly wouldn't see a man weighing only 173 as anything but a scarecrow, although it's marginally more believable than Eve's weight issue.
Anyway. That's my rant for the day - frivolous, I know, but these little details can drive me pretty batty with irritation...
