Negative Positive
Title: this took 12 years?
Review: Length, anybody can do. Research is nice, but laundry lists of extant flora and fauna left me skimming. Remedial writing is insulting. Sample: They can go many ways from the top of the path. They can go up. They can go down. The plot? Jondalar and Aylar ended their journey and were mated. Whinney and Ayla had baby girls. I distinctly remember enjoying books one and two. Books three and four began to slide, but I was still with the series. I still cared what was happening and wanted to know more. I hardly ever skimmed. Call me unreasonable, but if it takes somebody a decade to write a book, I expect more. And do I want to wait 12 more years to find out that Ayla becomes the next One Who Comes First of the 9th cave, leaving Jondalar to tend the kids and the hearth? NO. I knew that.
Is the review positive or negative? 