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Title: Lots of filler
Review: Extremely disappointed after so long a wait! This book was overly long with much repetition not only from previous books, which I understand, but within the same story. Enough with "The Mother's Song"! I found the writing poor and not engaging, character development lacking and far too much time spent on describing, very confusingly, the "cave" environment and surrounding landscape. Here's a thought...illustrations!! The "map" inside the covers did not help! This seems to be such an interesting time in human history but Auel fails to really address this fully. The descriptions of how things were done (i.e. cooking, tanning hides, etc.) were great but...as an Art History student I was hoping that she might take the cave art aspect and its possible meanings a bit farther. She starts to but then seems to have forgotten that particular plot line and it just peters out. Too bad. Can't say as I'm eagerly awaiting the next one.
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