library_hungry 's review for:

The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
1.0

I give this book a star only because I don't want anyone to see 0 stars and mistakenly think that I didn't bother to score it, and maybe it's not so bad. As far as I can remember, this is the worst book I've ever read. I'm a huge fan of the series, reread the first three or four books a million times. But this book is so slow, so boring, so repetitive. It's like the first 3/4 of the book are a verbatim publication of her research notes of viewing the caves, and the last 1/4 is plot stolen from one of the previous books (I'll spare you any spoilers, though that does NOT mean I think you should read it) and plopped down into this story. Agonizing. I'm so sorry. I'm going back to reread The Valley of Horses, just to clean out my brain.