Good Plot, Bad Author: Jean M. Auel

[caitak]

When I was about eighteen and riding high on a wave of Tolkien epic fantasy type books, my Grampy lent me his copy of The Clan of the Cave Bear. I really enjoyed it, but never got very far with the sequel (The Valley of the Horses

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[tatjna]

Never mind the 'Ayla becomes a superhero and invents everything ever while saving the world' theme. I did a bookfail about The Plains of Passage a while ago because wtf? Could have been so good, instead was ridiculous.

[chaosmyth]

AMEN. This aspect and the 2378463242648273 superfluous sex scenes is what bothered me the most about the last books of the series :|

[ryl]

I got real tired of the Ayla Invents Everything* trope very quickly. I could almost forgive it in Valley of Horses because she was on her own and had to find a way to survive, but even then it started to get ridiculous.

*Except the spear thrower. She graciously allowed Jondalar to invent that in between THE EXACT SAME SEX SCENE EVERY OTHER CHAPTER.

[natureboy87]

Didn't you hear? Ayla is the Forest Gump of prehistory!

[miritsu]

Really? Got the link? I'd love to read it.

[tatjna]

Sadly I couldn't find it in a backscroll. Sorry..