A review by jljohasky
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

2.0

So disappointing. I really enjoyed this whole series. Until this book. No story for the first 2/3. Just traveling around looking at caves. In the other novels the repetitiveness didn't bother me because I liked the story. But there was literally nothing happening in the majority of this book, and the repetitiveness grated on my last nerve. Then the jumping ahead several years at a time? That just seemed like laziness on Auel's part. Honestly, to build up Ayla becoming Zelandonii to just skip through it?! And don't even get me started on the character regression of Jondalar. And Ayla for that matter. It ended tidily enough, but a very disappointing end to an otherwise enjoyable series. Wolf gets 5 stars for being a good boy.