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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Don't you love over 700 pages of love triangle drama that could easily be solved within a chapter if the characters just bothered to sit down and TALK about their feelings for a moment?
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2020/12/book-review-mammoth-hunters-by-jean-m.html
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2020/12/book-review-mammoth-hunters-by-jean-m.html
I still really liked this one, but I wouldn't have been sad if the author had left out a hundred pages or so of Jondalar and Ayla being stupid about one another... other than that I enjoyed it.
Rereading this series this year.
This author's style has become frustrating to read. By this point in the series, we know who these characters are, and we know the landscape. The interest lies in seeing the NEW people and NEW situations, not in rehashing the old again and again. Like the previous books, Auel seems determined to make sure we are her doctoral students, learning everything we can about Ice Age.
I found it hard to become invested in the Ayla/Jondalar goings-on, even though I liked the new characters (the Mamutoi). And while I like the next direction the series has taken (meeting the Others, Ayla learning more about her birth people), I really dislike the adolescent misunderstandings, and the quick wrap-up ending seemed almost tacked on.
Ayla is not nearly so likeable in this book. The author uses phrases like "Ayla recalled" and "she remembered" and then explained something we already knew from previous books. We knew this! You don't have to keep telling us over and over! When I as a reader am beat over the head like this, I am inclined to tune out. I skimmed. A lot.
Too bad, as this storyline is what the author had been leading up to for two books: what happenes when Ayla finally meets others of her kind?
Re-starred from 4 to 2 stars.
This author's style has become frustrating to read. By this point in the series, we know who these characters are, and we know the landscape. The interest lies in seeing the NEW people and NEW situations, not in rehashing the old again and again. Like the previous books, Auel seems determined to make sure we are her doctoral students, learning everything we can about Ice Age.
I found it hard to become invested in the Ayla/Jondalar goings-on, even though I liked the new characters (the Mamutoi). And while I like the next direction the series has taken (meeting the Others, Ayla learning more about her birth people), I really dislike the adolescent misunderstandings, and the quick wrap-up ending seemed almost tacked on.
Ayla is not nearly so likeable in this book. The author uses phrases like "Ayla recalled" and "she remembered" and then explained something we already knew from previous books. We knew this! You don't have to keep telling us over and over! When I as a reader am beat over the head like this, I am inclined to tune out. I skimmed. A lot.
Too bad, as this storyline is what the author had been leading up to for two books: what happenes when Ayla finally meets others of her kind?
Re-starred from 4 to 2 stars.
I'm giving this book 3 stars but wish I could give it 2.5. It was good but it went on and on and on and repeated the same information over and over. Ayla is perfect, has an accent, invented needles, starting a fire with flint, horses as transportation, wolves as pets, aspirin, birth control... After about page 400 I ended up skimming a lot just so I could finish. Right now I am saying I won't finish the series but I do want to find out how it ends... I think I will wait a while before picking up the 4th book just like I waited a few years between reading #2 and #3.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
If you enjoy a book's entire plot revolving around stupid miscommunications and misunderstandings, then this book is for you. It also drags in so many places, reading more like a primer on paleolithic house building, clothes making, tool making, etc., than a novel. Two stars for the introduction of a new character and the return of an old one. Hope the next book in the series is better.
The last really good book in the series. Afterwards Ayla really became a Mary Sue and it just stopped working for me.