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Title: Would give it ZERO stars if Amazon gave me the choice
Review: As epic and as captivating as the previous books in the "Earth Children's Series" were, it's hard to believe that Jean Auel could so utterly miss the mark in this long, boring, and painfully uninspired installment. When most of your time is spent referencing an appendix at the back of the book to keep the 80+ characters straight in your head, when you close the book thinking it could've been a good 400 pages shorter without editing out any of the genuinely good writing, and when you ultimately walk away thinking to yourself, "I waited 12 years for THIS?" you're bound to be disappointed.If well-written epic women's fiction is what interests you most, then do yourself a favor and DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. Before you're brainwashed into thinking THE SHELTERS OF STONE is anything beyond a colordul doorstop, pick up some backlist Jean Auel, the Diana Gabaldon "Outlander" books, or anything by Dorothy Dunnett to remind yourself what good writing really is.
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