![]() ![]() ![]() It's hard to imagine that these things were not apparent from the beginning in our day and age. Also, the concept that men's sperm-or their essence, as the book calls it-is responsible for starting a new life in a woman. She also introduces the controversial notion that the Flatheads are human, not animals, to Jondalar's people. When they arrive with Wolf and their two horses, Whinney and Racer, the Zelondonni quickly realize Ayla is unique, but that is only the beginning of the revelations she brings to the Ninth Cave. ![]() This book tells the story of Ayla and Jondalar's arrival at his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelondonni, after their long journey across Europe and the glaciers. I think it could have been two hundred pages shorter if the repeated details had been edited out, but if you can get past all that, the amazing story of Ayla, one of the "others" raised by The Clan, also called Flathead, continues. This one seems to get bogged down in the repetitious details of the cave people's everyday lives without propelling the storyline forward. I have read the first four books, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, and The Plains of Passage, and they were all five-star books. Fifth in the Earth's Children series, this book was the first one that was hard to get through, but I still give The Shelters of Stone four stars because of the insane amount of research it must have taken to write it. ![]()
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