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undocureader 's review for:
The Land of Painted Caves
by Jean M. Auel
This series has been an interesting experience for me because I often found myself dreading it while I was reading but by the end of each book I would fall in love with it again. I am not sure if it is rose colored glasses, that feeling of looking back and remembering the good feelings, while forgetting all of the struggles you had with it throughout - it could be haha. The 6th book of the series was very disappointing for most of the book because I often felt like the author was avoiding jumping into the spiritual reveal I have been waiting for since book 1. The series was incredibly long (6 books all of them at least 600 pages) and the majority of the time the author used all that space to recount the same story we had already read in a previous book or detail daily events which were very similar to things she had already described. I loved the premise of the story, I also did learn a lot and have been very surprise to see that in a lot of ways her research on early humans is very accurate - however I think she could have done more with the story to expand into other topics that could have worked well.
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I was also very upset that Ayla never got to see her first son again. I was expecting there to be a big reunion when the son travels to where she is and she is able to see how his clan and others features mixed together to make him into a man. Or that Ayla would somehow go back and meet him again and tell him about his destiny.
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I was also very upset that Ayla never got to see her first son again. I was expecting there to be a big reunion when the son travels to where she is and she is able to see how his clan and others features mixed together to make him into a man. Or that Ayla would somehow go back and meet him again and tell him about his destiny.