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The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)

Jean M. Auel

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. Week 1: More Than 500 Pages

* Week 1: Introduction
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Apr 19, 2021 Tracey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: charity-shop-find, fantasy, fiction, sequel-or-series, hardback

A very long read that took me two attempts to read it due to the length of it and the numerous characters
It was a book that had a strength amongst the women characters but that didn’t make it a good read , just an okay read.

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Dec 20, 2010 Christine (Cagnes) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011

The main storyline is Ayla's training and progression from Acolyte to Zelandoni, the problem is that it is quite tedious and boring. Most of this book consists of the retelling of events from the past 5 books, as well as the Mother's Song.... I grew sick of that damn song!

It got a little interesting towards the very end of the book, but then ended choppy with a few little sub plots that could have been addressed but were just dropped.... very disappointing.
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Apr 23, 2011 Kat Colorado rated it liked it

Shelves: english, 2011

I read my first book about Ayla when I was 19 and now 20 years later I read the last one. I've read all five before this last one many times, I can't even say what made me reread again, I just liked the story I guess.

This last one wasn't always great. The first part was rather slow and nothing much happened. I enjoyed the second part best. The third part seemed like a repetition of the Mammuth hunters in many ways and I was slightly annoyed with it at times.

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