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Title: The Shelter of Ennui
Review: Having gloried in the first four Auel books, I was anxiously awaiting this present volume. What a disappointment! After four tales of high adventure around which were couched loads of information about stone age living, we come to this new effort. I have slogged through the first 300 pages of this tome, and now it rests on the shelf. (Editing out reduncancies and there might be a worthwhile thirty page read here). In those first 300 pages nothing more exciting happens than a dirty trick involving clothing and a death at a hunt, providing I suppose a plot ploy to expose Ayla's healing powers. Not much high dudgeon here. Frankly, the book reads more like ... manual for the stone age then a tale fashioned by a writer who proved capable of excellence in her earlier works.`
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