content: Remembering way back when this series started with The Clan of the Cave Bear, how well and entertaining that and the following books were....till many years later when this book came out, and then the entertainment just stopped and it became a boring read, I lost all interest in the characters.I truly did try to read it through, but I just couldn't do it. I had to stop half-way through. Maybe it was just too long between books, or maybe I've just outgrown the writing.