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A review by wishanem
Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
3.0
As awful as the cover of this book is, the actual story it tells is pretty good. Less than a generation after humans discovers faster-than-light travel, they have found over 100,000 planets inhabited by intelligent life, and Earth is strained to send even the most inexperienced emissaries to most of them. Lynne Christie is one such emissary, sent to a planet that appears at first glance to be in a Medieval period, complete with a fallen pseudo-Roman civilization in the planet's history. However, soon the Machiavellian politics and alien aspects of life on this planet begin to complicate the envoy's life and then the story really gets going.
Words I learned in this book:
batrachian - amphibian, froglike
crepuscular - of or like twilight
eidetic - of visual imagery that is extremely accurate, such as a photographic memory
nictitating - generally blinking, specifically the movement of the "third eyelid" in animals that feature that additional membrane.
tenebrious - dark, gloomy, or difficult to understand
tersion - the act of rubbing something off
Words I learned in this book:
batrachian - amphibian, froglike
crepuscular - of or like twilight
eidetic - of visual imagery that is extremely accurate, such as a photographic memory
nictitating - generally blinking, specifically the movement of the "third eyelid" in animals that feature that additional membrane.
tenebrious - dark, gloomy, or difficult to understand
tersion - the act of rubbing something off