@The Mammoth Hunters
3 journalers for this copy...
Third novel in the "Earth's Children" series. This copy purchased for another Bookcrossing member.
Postal release to PinkElf in Romania.
I enjoyed this thried volume too, but not as much as the previous ones. It has good parts and bad parts - the bad parts being it gets way too soap-opera-ish in the end. But the author did manage to make me care about her characters, so I was genuinely happy to see the happy end - and a new beginning. I'm about to start the fourth volume now...
still waiting to read through the first huge volumes of the series.it may take a pretty long while.
after the first two books, i realized i just can't see this series as a fantasy, or even romanced history example. i settled on romance and expected nothing. this third book, while a great romance novel (now and then), still has those annoying bits that oppose logic (like ayla adopting yet another wildlife pet - a wolf this time. i wonder what she'll get next, the herd is growing. or ayla inventing the needle and thread - 35000 yrs ago - , besides new weapons, new tools or discovering how to start a fire using flintstone. whatever stopped her from inventing the wheel, i wonder...)
jondalar continues to display repetitive sexual prowess (yes, i did know the ancient humans had sex a lot, but i'm still not interested in learning in great detail about each and every occasion...) and also a great immaturity. this part i liked best: he wants/but doesn't want ayla; he needs/ won't have anything to do with her; he leaves her to another / decides she left him on a whim, etc. it was really amusing, watching a teenager kind of pain and love. i thought their love was the "adam and eve" type (and yes, ayla has this prophetic dream about her two sons trying to kill one another. she's the real eve, no doubt).
the book gets 6/10 for making me read it through. and by the way, the mammoth hunt i waited for comes almost at the end and passes so fast i'm not sure it meant anything. the mammoth hunters could've been the flint knappers, as far as the plot is concerned with their kind of life.
the book returns to www.ivyco.com/opendb.
jondalar continues to display repetitive sexual prowess (yes, i did know the ancient humans had sex a lot, but i'm still not interested in learning in great detail about each and every occasion...) and also a great immaturity. this part i liked best: he wants/but doesn't want ayla; he needs/ won't have anything to do with her; he leaves her to another / decides she left him on a whim, etc. it was really amusing, watching a teenager kind of pain and love. i thought their love was the "adam and eve" type (and yes, ayla has this prophetic dream about her two sons trying to kill one another. she's the real eve, no doubt).
the book gets 6/10 for making me read it through. and by the way, the mammoth hunt i waited for comes almost at the end and passes so fast i'm not sure it meant anything. the mammoth hunters could've been the flint knappers, as far as the plot is concerned with their kind of life.
the book returns to www.ivyco.com/opendb.
