Recently, I started Blood of Elves, the first in The Witcher series. Quickly, I was struck by the author’s vocabulary. As in page 2. “… a horse’s belly and a frayed girth flashing by above her head, then another horse’s belly and a flowing black caparison.” A bit further in: “the pounding of horseshoes, fetlocks […]
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