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Title: Stone cold cash shelter.....
Review: Sorry Jean, but like many other Ayla fans, I have absolutely longed for this book, and now I wish I had waited for the paperback.When "Plains of Passage" ended, Ayla & Jondalar have journeyed through an array of fascinating adventures, and have at last arrived at Jondalar's home cave, pregnant, ready to be mated. "Shelters..." tells the story of their next 8 months, a tale that would have taken a couple of chapters in any of the preceding books, in an agonizing 749 pages...I skimmed and skimmed looking for a spark of Ms. Auel's altogether absent inventiveness and storytelling skill. No pathos, no finely drawn protagonist, no interesting new adversary. If she had wanted to add another few pages, perhaps Ms. Auel could have quoted her Song of the Mother ONE MORE TIME? I'm disappointed that JA would cheat her fans....I gladly paid for the book, but the story I expected was missing.
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