Monday, July 16, 2012

The Land of the Painted Caves by Jean Auel

The end of this book did have more conflict in it than some of the previous books in this series, but I think that it suffers from the same basic problem (and one that the Outlander books also face, to a certain extent): Auel is more interested in how people lived at the dawn of the human race than in telling a story with believable characters and the kinds of conflict that make you want to keep reading. She does a beautiful job with the setting, but it starts to drag in these long volumes.

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