In The Valley of Horses we follow Ayla as she sets out on a journey to try and find people of the "Others" (the Cro-Magnon race she was born to). Although she doesn't want to leave the Clan (the Neanderthals who raised her) she wants to follow her adopted mother Iza's wishes and find a mate of her ...
Better than the first because of the romance story at the end. Edging toward soft core porn though. Starting the third book but not too optimistic about it.
Great book. I really recommend reading Clan of The Cave Bear first. I was really impressed with Auel's writing skills on this one, because most of the writing is introspective, because Ayla is alone for most of the book. Very impressed and kinda of signed, sealed and delivered my having to read the ...
Probably my favourite in the series. No annoying Broud character like in the first, and it hasn't yet reached the repetitiveness of the third and fourth. I have yet to read the fifth because I couldn't stomach rereading 3 and 4 but am thinking I may just skip those two and go straight to it. I think...
The split story of Ayla and Jondalar tends to drag the story along slowly - you know eventually they will meet but it takes forever. This was also the first book I'd read to have graphic sex scenes, and I can remember going "Whaaat?"
I've read it at least 10 times. Maybe more. The first read I enjoyed the explicit sex scenes, but in subsequent reads I tend to skip them -- they get boring. However, the history is fascinating and the characters compelling.
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