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Title: real snoozer
Review: OK--here's the entire plot: Ayla helps a little, hunts a little, humps a little, takes care of her animals, gets married and has a baby. Problem is--anyone who has read Auel's previous books already knew that--that was the plan at the end of the last book! I kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen, but nothing ever did. There were no surprises, very little conflict, no further character development of Ayla and Jondalar, and no character development at all of anybody else. Tons of named, but useless, characters cluttered the novel. It also seemed there were the starts of some interesting plots, all which deadended.Yes, obviously well researched since we had long explanations of minute details of stuff was made, etc. But I think at this point Ms. Auel has made it abundantly clear that she'd rather do research than write good fiction.
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