She's clearly missed the memo that in a series, you need a very brief description when recurring characters appear in a new book at the maximum to refresh the reader's mental image rather than a vomitous outpouring of verbiage.

What gets me though is - they aren't super special attractive. They sound like their appearance is incredibly weird. Who wouldn't stare at some dork with hair all the way down to his feet or the guy with "leopard" eyes?

And wait - there's purple prose in Emma? I found it mind-numbing and Emma herself is a whiny fool, but I missed the purple prose.