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Title: The Great Earth Mother cried at how many trees died to create this drivel
Review: Like many other reviewers, I have read all of the novels in this series, and have found the quality of the writing (and editing) falls off dramatically after the 3rd book. I slogged through this one only because I wanted to see what advances the plot might take. Very few, indeed. Ayla is perfect; Jondalar is the perfect man; they are both so great, la la la.. The fourth book was painful to read, and should have been subtitled (My thesis on plant life in Neolithic Europe), but this was just awful. I honestly can't say if I care enough to read the "final" novel. What else could happen in it, except maybe Jondalar accidentally discovers how to create iron, and Ayla has a dream where Creb teaches her how to begin purposeful cultivation of plants, so that they are the "Parents of Modern Civilization" ??? Sorry, Jean, but you lost my interest a thousand pages or so ago. I think that I'll just re-read the first three novels.
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