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Title: There's really no plot
Review: I, like most of the posters here, really loved Jean Auel's earlier novels. Even the slower... ones like Valley of the Horses or the Mammoth Hunters had a regular plot and exciting passages, along side Auel's continous and constant pre-historic lore. (And I thought Plains of Passage was just downright thrilling)But the problem is that this book has almost no plot. Like many people noted the book is one big continous loop. Many of the conversations between the characters were better left up to the fan's imagination. (Such as the meeting between Ayla and Marona). Even Ayla, at some point in the novel notes a repetion from a previous novel ("Are we going to have to give him a firestore like Frebec?").One would have liked to see more conflict. It didn't have to be this bland.There is one good thing about this novel is that it seems to be setting up (one would hope) a more exciting sequel, and Auel has promised that it will come out relatively soon.
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