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Title: Shelters of Stone
Review: After reading and being totally captivated by the first 4 of the series, I waited impatiently for book #5. I am very disappointed in the book, but will continue to have high hopes for the conclusion of the series.My harshest criticism is of the sentence structure throughout the book. The writer did a poor job of portraying "cave-man style" conversation or speaking. Two sentences run together, separated by a comma do not depict primitive language or thought, and I do not remember seeing this in Ms. Auel's other books.Also, I resent stumbling over explicit sex in a book which I have chosen for reasons other than hot sex or romance. If you must, one explicit scene would be quite enough, and any other occasion to include romance or intimacy could be handled differently.I could not recommend this book to anyone, but strongly encourage everyone to read The Clan of the Cave Bear, Passage of the Plains, Valley of the Horses, and Mammoth Hunter. They were 100% superb!
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