Holly B. (Eowyn) reviewed on 6/28/2006 + 22 more book reviews

This is the weakest book to date in the Earth's Children series. Since there are several hundred characters, Ayla's story is repeated over and over and over. In addition to being repetitive, that many characters don't allow for much story or character development, even in these long books, especially when she crams in technical, societal, and herbal lore. It was predictable, as well.

One of the disturbing things, to me anyway, was the change in spelling of Willamar's name. (I went back and checked -- in the other books, his name is spelled Willomar.) It also looks like Auel is running out of names, as the last character introduced in the book has the worst one in the series.

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