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(More customer reviews)First, a quick explanation of my rating - 3 stars only in comparison to Auel's previous novels. Compared to books by other authors in the genre, The Plains of Passage is definitely 5 stars! Those of us who are hooked on the Earth's Children series will, of course, read every book Jean Auel produces, but in comparison to the first three books in the series, The Plains of Passage wasn't up to Auel's usual standard. Unlike other reviewers whose complaints center on the extensive plant and topography descriptions, what I found hardest to swallow was the "Ayla and Jondalar Save the Day - Again" theme than runs throughout the novel. After just their second encounter with a group of people during their journey to Jondalar's home, a "here it comes again feeling" rises up in the reader. It is a bit wearing on the most diehard Auel fan to endure 800 pages of Ayla and Jondalar coming to the rescue of yet another group of miserably backward people. Another large bite for readers to swallow is the presentation of Ayla and Jondalar as singular saviors of the planet. However, I'm sure most readers, no matter how caught up in the saga of Ayla and Jondalar, are able none-the-less to keep in mind that the many innovations and inventions she and he discover were not their unique and singular developments. Their experiences and discoveries were repeated endlessly by many other people of their time. After all, had the fate of humanity depended on only one person discovering the processes and uses of fire, sewing needles, various weapons, etc., the human race would not now be enjoying such luxuries as books by Jean Auel! But in spite of my complaints, I have read (and reread) all the books in Auel's series, and, with her many fans, am eagerly awaiting her next novel (a copy of which I plan to own the very day it hits bookstore shelves!).
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