g_na 's review for:

The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel

3.0

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I liked this book better than the prior one because it had more of a story and less of the soft porn crap. However, Auel has gotten to the point where she needs an editor to rein her in. I realize one of the issues you come across when reading a sequel is the author will often briefly restate significant events from prior books in case the reader is not familiar with them. The Mammoth Hunters contains a lot of restating. And a lot of wordiness. When the author describes Ayla's thoughts, for example, does she really need to tell us word-for-word what's going through her mind? Couldn't she just sum it up in a few sentences, rather than a few pages?