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jrenouard 's review for:
The Land of Painted Caves
by Jean M. Auel
It was important for me to finish this series. It's been 31 years since she published the first "Clan of the Cave Bear" but she finally finished it. (Really highlights JK Rowlings accomplishment.)
But this is really is the worst of the series. The writing is not good. You're introduced to character threads that she never follows up. It often reads as an juvenile narration of a sequence of events. The same phrases and elements appear again and again contributing nothing to the story. The dialog is often contrived and stilted. While I rolled my eyes and skimmed over the boring parts it wasn't bad enough I put it down.
Jean Auel is now 75. I think it was probably important for her to finish the epic she began but you feel as if she just barely got it out. She admits that life got in her way.
That said, it really was important to finish this series. I still love the details from her research of paleoanthropology and the artifacts of S Europe. It makes me want to take my own tour through the S of France and visit these sites and I'm jealous of her privilege to visit the real sites herself.
Would I recommend it? No, unless you're invested in the series as I have been, in which case, you just have to finish it.
But this is really is the worst of the series. The writing is not good. You're introduced to character threads that she never follows up. It often reads as an juvenile narration of a sequence of events. The same phrases and elements appear again and again contributing nothing to the story. The dialog is often contrived and stilted. While I rolled my eyes and skimmed over the boring parts it wasn't bad enough I put it down.
Jean Auel is now 75. I think it was probably important for her to finish the epic she began but you feel as if she just barely got it out. She admits that life got in her way.
That said, it really was important to finish this series. I still love the details from her research of paleoanthropology and the artifacts of S Europe. It makes me want to take my own tour through the S of France and visit these sites and I'm jealous of her privilege to visit the real sites herself.
Would I recommend it? No, unless you're invested in the series as I have been, in which case, you just have to finish it.