Same. It took me ages to distinguish between the two LD’s, Lional Duncan and Luther Dillon.
Within the story, no problem.
But if one of the names was mentioned in a discussion or on the blog, I had a hard time remembering.

Also Curran and Conner.
I always forget Rogan’s first name is Conner. Mainly because most of the time he’s Rogan.

I knew I couldn’t form pictures in my head from words or remember more than flashes.

I’ve always characterized it as having an auditory memory. I can remember what things sound like, and I’m an auditory learner, but I can’t remember like seeing a movie or even a fuzzy picture.

My vision is fine, and I recognize people and places, and I rely on it, but I can’t visually remember things and cannot “picture” them as anything more than a vague resemblance to things I’ve seen before.

There’s a word for it. Thank you!

Yeah! I am the same with the house— they are a pile of facts and I’d kind of vaguely imagine the individual pieces but not be able to put them together.

A lot of the “images” I get are memories, contextual examples I’ve physically seen before.

If you ask me to picture an apple, I’ll have a memory of an apple. If you ask me to picture a cat, I’ll remember one of my cats. But I don’t really *see* it in my brain, it’s kind of like a mostly transparent overlay than a full picture or 3d model. I’m not really sure how to put it in words.

As for spatial awareness? I’m terrible at it! I could not estimate an inch let alone a foot.

But on the flip side I can “feel” sound. Music, pound noises, etc activate my nerves in strange ways where I will have physical sensations with them.

“I find your characters easy to keep distinct in my mind.”

yes! i agree with this so much!
i’ve read too many books where side characters blended together and i’d get them mixed up. i hate having to flip back in a book to try to sort out who person x was because i thought they were person z. i’ve never had that problem with ilona andrew’s books.

I’m just saying that at one point the authors were interested in writing a Desandra story…wonder how we could sneak a certain handsome Knight Commander in there……… 😉😉

For all the joy House Andrews brings us, they deserve all the p*tience. We will love Maggie just as much when she gets here. 🙂

(BDH forever!! Okay, more coffee…)