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A review by annamaria_ts
The Shelters of Stone: Earth's Children, Book Five by Jean M. Auel
5.0
This is the first book I read from this series (years ago, when I was a teenager), and I maintain to this day that it's the only book of the series one needs to read, not because the others aren't enjoyable, but because it recaps every single moment of the previous books.
Every time I read this one I enjoy it immensely. There is no plot, the descriptions are way too long, there is fatphobia and a crap ton of gender stereotyped, divine feminine, earth mother "feminism" and yet it's so freaking enjoyable. (Although I can't get over the fact that the only awful character was the childless scorned woman).
The absurdity of everyone being the absolute best of the best, the very modern medicine and the long every day life scenes make this book feel very safe and cozy, and it got me out of the reading slump I was in very fast.
Every time I read this one I enjoy it immensely. There is no plot, the descriptions are way too long, there is fatphobia and a crap ton of gender stereotyped, divine feminine, earth mother "feminism" and yet it's so freaking enjoyable. (Although I can't get over the fact that the only awful character was the childless scorned woman).
The absurdity of everyone being the absolute best of the best, the very modern medicine and the long every day life scenes make this book feel very safe and cozy, and it got me out of the reading slump I was in very fast.