Oh my God . . . the most boring book I've ever read! and i must give credit to jean auel because i read about how much work and research and time she puts into these novels and i know how accurate her descriptions are of everything . . . but she easily devotes 4 pages (atleast) to describing the terrain, the flora and fauna, the animals . . . and picture this . . . the story is about two people crossing ice age europe from one end to the other . . . and the book is 865 pages . . . the longest one in the entire series so far!!!!! by the way, this book took me about 2 months to read, the longest i've ever spent reading a single book. but i finished it. and a few years later i re-read the series, but i skipped this book.