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2.92 AVERAGE
2.92 AVERAGE
This was painful to try to read. I remember enjoying the others in the series but I just could not read this one. I skimmed & skipped to the end just to finish it.
So I finished the 6 book series. This book had too much repetition from earlier books for my liking. A lot of attention to detail of plants and animals. A good story which could have been told in a shorter book or it could have continued the story (another book is certainly available with the ending of this book).
To me, it's obvious this was written over years and years, but I feel happy that I got to read the final part of Ayla's story. There is a ton of recapping of the previous books and story lines, which got a bit old at times, but I love the ending that brings us back to Ayla's ability to see what comes next ... For better or worse.
I have read some awful books but this is THE worst book I have ever read. It is awful. I am glad that it is the last book in the series because I will nit spend one more minute of my few and far between free time to read this crap. The first book was AMAZING! The rest of the books have been on a vast decline. None of the questions I had been waiting to be answered are ever answered. Those were the questions I had to keep me paging through these books. So terrible! I want all that time I spent reading this series back!
I'd read all the others in this series, really loved most of them. There really isn't a good STORY here. Not much conflict, until the very end of the book (825+ pages, mind you) and a lot a lot a lot of repetition. (Did I mention there's a lot of repetition?) Detailed description of the various interiors of painted caves, which is about as fascinating as watching the slides of your neighbor's European vacation - except the slide projector is broken, so he's going to TELL you about each slide and why THIS cathedral/cave was sort of different from that cathedral/cave - but alike, too. For 15-20 locations. The characters are all Barbie dolls, simply being dressed up and moved around without showing internal or external motivation. Ayla and Jondalar have a spat and make up. The end.
Phew, I'm finally done with this series. Nothing really new or exciting happened in this last book; it was just more of the same old stuff, written in the same old way. I estimate that at least 10-20% of this book was reminding us of things and explanations that had happened earlier in the book or the series, and so many of the descriptions in here were quite long and wordy. I think books five and six could have been edited down into one volume and it would have improved them both.
I only really read about 25% of this book. There was so much repetition and it was overly descriptive. Ayla and Jondolar had quite a few OOC moments also. I'm glad this is the last book of this series, I don't think I could make it though another one.
Ditto the previous reviewers. I had to finish the series .. but again, so much of it was repetitive.