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Title: A long-awaited disappointment...
Review: Having been a faithful reader of the first 4 books, Shelters of Stone was eagerly anticipated for 11+ years. What a let-down! It is if someone else wrote this book. The repetition of descriptions of places or encounters that the characters have is annoying, to say the least. Jean Auel never wrote like this in the first 4 books. Ayla can rethink a thought or conversation for two or three pages. It is if the "author" is trying way too hard to educate the reader or make the situations in the book more true through repetition. Or the publisher, like a teacher, said this had to be so many pages long and the writer went back and repeated and rehashed each scene in the book. One of the most irritating books I've read in a long time. If you liked the first 4 books of the Earth Children series I would NOT recommend this book. It is a great disappointment.
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