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siggyl 's review for:
The Plains of Passage
by Jean M. Auel
This was a healing book after Mammoth Hunters. Lets face it, Jealousy is one of the ugliest emotions and putting up with hundreds of pages of it was hard. It detracted from the story, but this is a review of The Plains of Passage. I am glad I plowed through the other book to get to this one... now, that is.
However, in the book Ayla and Jondalar start on the journey home. The encounter the best of humanity and the worst of it too.
I did hear the complaints about the descriptions of wilderness in which they traveled being too boring. On the contrary, I found it interesting and one of the reasons I like historical fiction. If I may make my case, think of the old classics. The book that comes to mind for me is Moby Dick. It was very descriptive about oceanography. However, keep in mind, when the book was written there was no History Channel. People reading the book needed the description to understand what was going on. This may not be the case today, but I did find all the descriptions of what they encountered fascinating.
I appreciated that Ayla and Jondalar worked on there relationship and grew closer as this is also a love story and their antics in the Mammoth Hunters really had me upset. I am a little older and wiser than when I was young and I still see them making relationship mistakes. But lets face it, at the end of their journey Ayla is only 19 and Jondalar is 21 or so... (Can't remember.)
I did find Jean's (the author) use of foreshadowing a little predictable. However, she did leave some of them as surprises.
I'm looking forward to the next book.
However, in the book Ayla and Jondalar start on the journey home. The encounter the best of humanity and the worst of it too.
I did hear the complaints about the descriptions of wilderness in which they traveled being too boring. On the contrary, I found it interesting and one of the reasons I like historical fiction. If I may make my case, think of the old classics. The book that comes to mind for me is Moby Dick. It was very descriptive about oceanography. However, keep in mind, when the book was written there was no History Channel. People reading the book needed the description to understand what was going on. This may not be the case today, but I did find all the descriptions of what they encountered fascinating.
I appreciated that Ayla and Jondalar worked on there relationship and grew closer as this is also a love story and their antics in the Mammoth Hunters really had me upset. I am a little older and wiser than when I was young and I still see them making relationship mistakes. But lets face it, at the end of their journey Ayla is only 19 and Jondalar is 21 or so... (Can't remember.)
I did find Jean's (the author) use of foreshadowing a little predictable. However, she did leave some of them as surprises.
I'm looking forward to the next book.