I loved Jondalar and Ayla and their love story and she had to go ruin it in the most cliche way possible – he was a cheating bastard, but it’s supposed to be ok b/c people are supposed to “share” their mates, blah blah blah bullshit. I gave ALL of the books I had in this series (and they were all hardbacks!) away after I was done. SPOILER ALERT! I used to re-read the entire series probably once per year. It was so terrible and it RUINED the series for me. I feel like no matter what I say here nothing can truly express how much I hated this book.
Review #3 The Land of Painted Caves audiobook by Jean M. If you didn’t read the 17,000 pages written about Ayla over the last 30 years, here’s a reminder: she talks funny, and she’s weird AF, but not weirder than Jean M. It was just a person describing the things they saw over and over: “There was a drawing of a horse facing to the right and then another horse, also facing to the right, then a mammoth, facing to the right.” I also wonder if Auel has gone so far down the rabbit hole that it seems normal to mention 378 times that Ayla has a distinctive accent that makes her seem foreign. Did Auel just have such a good contract that she could write whatever she wanted and it had to be published? Was she implacable enough that no editor’s notes could derail her fixation on cave paintings? I mean Jesus Christ, it was like watching someone’s vacation slides, only there were no slides. I’m more interested in how such a bad book gets published than I am in how it gets written.
There are many other reviews, here and all over the internet that exhaustively and hilariously cover how horrible this book is but if you’ve read all the other books leading up to this one then you’re probably going to read it, just like I did, no matter what anyone else says. Review #2 The Land of Painted Caves audiobook in series Earth’s Children I’ll always like the first books in the series and continue to reread them, but this one? Ummm, no. Why didn’t she invent the wheel, design the first toilet, discover electricity, try out barrel racing with the horses, and split the atom while she was at it?Īfter I read this book, I was glad it was over. (I guess if I get lost in the woods I have a good chance of surviving now.) I’m also tired of Ayla the Almighty.
I’m sure I could start a fire with firestones, butcher a deer myself, and make my own prehistoric stuff after reading about it so much. I’m also sick of the repeat on Ayla’s life story. There’s only so much you can write (or read) about describing caves. The first 2 parts could have been cut out completely. This book is the worst out of the six and a total disappointment. I’m a die hard Jean Auel fan and I put off reading this book for so long because of what I heard about it.
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