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This was probably my favorite of the series both for the writing/research but also for the narration of Sandra Burr. I think Ms. Burr finally hit her Cave-womyn height with this one. I more often pulled away from the Kindle version and let Sandra tell me the story. In the Audible version, the characterizations were seamless. When it was a man talking, I pictured the man. I often forgot a womyn was narrating. She kept each of the female voices different enough and consistent enough that I wouldn't have needed to look to see who was talking. Amazing!

Another reason I enjoyed the Audible more than the Kindle (written) form was there were so many passages (no pun intended) of descriptions. I'm sure a lot of the research the Jean M. Auel did was represented here. But if you follow Discovery or other science channels, you would have already covered much of it. Ms. Burr kept those flowing and interesting. And her ability to pull the very essence of a sexual scene without making it raunchy was amazing (and sexy!)

I am writing this after starting the next book. I couldn't leave Ayla out there in the ether!


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The Plains of Passage Earth Children® Series Jean M Auel Sandra Burr 9781611064582 Books Reviews

For me this was a rather long and drawn-out read, while I enjoyed it, I felt it could have been a lot shorter than it is. Or it could have been summed up in another installment, as it got tedious as it went along. There is a lot that happens here or maybe it doesn't, depending on how one choses to look at it. If I'm to be completely honest, this is my least favorite book in the series, a bit slow perhaps, but good overall, if you can make it through to the end...And I almost stopped, I'm glad I didn't though, as it will be very interesting for me at least, to see where the story goes from this point on.
I decided this Christmas that I would purchase myself this series of books written by Jean M. Auel in hardback. I already had the series in paperback. This Earth’s Chrildren’s series started with Clan of the Cave Bear and I can’t say how much I enjoyed these books. I was not able to find each one new, but between new and used, I was able to complete my collection. Rather new, or used, I was pleased with the condition the books were in, including the covers!!
Well-written, well-researched, but reads more like a textbook than a novel. There are frequent info dumps about plant and animal life in the ice age, which are enlightening, but ultimately forgettable. Clearly, the writer has great talent (and has written other great books), but is a tad too indulgent in detail in this story for her own good. I really didn't need to know every time that Ayla and Jondalar took a piss or made out (and they make out quite a bit in the story and we are spared no detail of the makeout). To be fair, a long journey story is bound to be low intensity, so the writer has to come up with ways to ramp up tension, now and then, to keep readers interested. One reviewer complained of the "save the day" motif that occurred throughout the book, and that is a legitimate complaint, but it may have been the only way to keep interest when the main characters were constantly on the move and could not establish long-term relationships.
Having recently reread the first three volumes in the Earth's Children saga, I learned of the last three and ordered them all. Eagerly awaiting their arrival, I then read reviews. This volume was out of print, so I'm reading it last. Having started it, I've put it down, not because I already know what's going to happen, but because, as with the sequels, it is tedious. It seems unlikely that anyone would begin here, but many prior events are often revisited and descriptive material, concerning plants for example, is repetitive.
Yikes, this book was hard to get through. Super-Cro Magnons Ayla and Jondalar leave their happy situation with the Mamutoi in quest of Jondalar's people, the Zelandoni, which involves traveling all across prehistoric Europe. If you don't understand what I just said, you are obviously not familiar with the series at all and should stop reading this review, since it is about book 5 in a long long series. If an epic journey across ice-age Europe sounds like an interesting novel, look elsewhere or write your own. This one is pretty terrible. Anyways, continuing with the synopsis, since Ayla and Jondalar are super, they have tamed horses, can heal all wounds with plants, and make great time. This is really wonderful since they need to cross a glacier before spring! If they don't get there in time, they might have to resort to..... staying in a comfortable cave until next winter with friends. And Jondalar Really Wants to Get Home!

Reaching the glacier is the main source of tension of the novel, coupled with the fact that people might not welcome Ayla and Jondalar with their flathead-friendly ways and their scary abilities to ride horses and tame animals. Flatheads, of course, are Neanderthals - the people who raised Ayla when she was abandoned as a child. Also, what if Ayla gets pregnant? Oh wait, of course she knows what plants to eat to avoid pregnancy. Phew! Oh no - now Jondalar thinks he is not man enough to make a baby with Ayla, but she can't tell him about her medicine because of reasons.

The problem with the book, besides contrived and stupid drama that occasionally bubbles up btw the happy couple, is that it is slow slow slow. They travel, observe animals and the landscape, they meet people, people realize how awesome Ayla is and want to adopt her and Jondalar. The flathead discrimination always dissolves before it can be an issue. Ayla and Jondalar never stay, though Ayla really wants to stop travelling. Everybody reacts the same way to A+J and they tell their story so often it is like Groundhog Day turned into a novel. Same Same Same. Un-sexy sex is had many times. The plants are described many times. Can you possibly imagine how many uses their are for cattails? Have you ever wanted to make a parfleche out of rawhide? Do you really want to read in excruciating detail how to bang flint rocks together to make tools? Perhaps you are interested in the ecological conditions necessary to create Loess Steppes? If you read the earlier books, you already know, but will get to read over and over again here.

There is one delightfully ridiculous interlude, involving a woman-ran group of prehistoric people. This group is imprisoning men, treating them terribly, and keeping women far away from the imprisoned men. Auel's prehistoric people for some reason all don't realize babies are made via the act of sex. They all believe it is due to swallowing spirits. Of course, super-Ayla is starting to put two-and-two together on this one, but no one else seems to have even thought of it. This crazy tribe decides to have an all-female society by isolating the men from the women. Thus only woman-spirits will be floating around to be swallowed, and only girl babies will be born. Of course Ayla, with a little help from Jondalar, solves all of their problems before rushing away to get to that glacier, but this is a nice divergence from the main story.

Sadly this book is a masterwork of plot structure compared to the next TWO novels in this series. I recommend readers of this series stop here and read no further. The first book is charming, but the series does not live up to the beginning.
This was probably my favorite of the series both for the writing/research but also for the narration of Sandra Burr. I think Ms. Burr finally hit her Cave-womyn height with this one. I more often pulled away from the version and let Sandra tell me the story. In the Audible version, the characterizations were seamless. When it was a man talking, I pictured the man. I often forgot a womyn was narrating. She kept each of the female voices different enough and consistent enough that I wouldn't have needed to look to see who was talking. Amazing!

Another reason I enjoyed the Audible more than the (written) form was there were so many passages (no pun intended) of descriptions. I'm sure a lot of the research the Jean M. Auel did was represented here. But if you follow Discovery or other science channels, you would have already covered much of it. Ms. Burr kept those flowing and interesting. And her ability to pull the very essence of a sexual scene without making it raunchy was amazing (and sexy!)

I am writing this after starting the next book. I couldn't leave Ayla out there in the ether!