auntblh 's review for:

The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

3.0

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I'm definitely rounding up the stars on this one. There were a couple of things that bothered me about this book but overall I did like it. One of the things that bothered me was the repetition. I think if some of the introductions to people and repetitions of the Song of the Earth Mother were left out, the book could have been half the size. Also you didn't have to worry about not remembering things from previous books because the important things were retold (and retold). I didn't like that after waiting so long and reading so many pages (all 6 books in the series) that it kind of ended with a fizzle that left you wondering "that's it?!". There also didn't seem to be any really new storylines. I did enjoy some of the descriptions of the cave paintings and would like to see pictures of them because I was having a hard time picturing some of them. I also liked that some characters from previous books were brought back. Overall, I would say it was definitely time for the series to end but I'm sad that it ended with a fizzle instead of a bang.