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Title: should have been a 100 page novel
Review: The book had too much "padding" in my opinion and would have made a good shorter book. Also, for those of us following the "earth children" series I found that the book was really more concerned with the thoughts and feelings of other characters (notably Zolena) rather than Ayla. I even thought that some of Ayla's behaviour was out of character - she hardly ever took a lead role in the book and was too subordinate to Zolena - she should have been much more of an equal (since actually Ayla was much more advanced) despite her natural modesty.
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