Deborah M. (Gimli) reviewed on 5/18/2011 + 14 more book reviews

What a big disapointment! We waited so long for this final story of Ayla. Auel seems like she just took all of her painted cave descriptions of all the research she did and tossed in a weak story line with Ayla and family at the beginning and end of the book and said here ya go folks - here is the ending you have all been waiting for! Tada! After a while I was thinking please don't take us into another boring cave! Auel spends way too much time going over the details of cave after cave and the Mother's Songs. It was so repetitive I was about to pull out my hair! However, I just had to read this final chapter after being a big fan of the series for so long. I needed to know how Ayla ended up. I wanted to read more about Ayla and Jondalar's interactions with each other and other people. I could not believe that Auel left out more details of what Jondalar was doing before they got to the summer meeting and Ayla discovered what he did. I had also grown used to the hot interactions between characters in the previous books. That was sorely lacking in this book. I am glad to unload my copy of the book!

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