Scheherazade
09-05-2007, 08:03 PM
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
This is the story of Ayla who was orphaned by an earthquake when she was only 5. She is discovered and saved by a medicine woman from another clan ('Clan of the Cave Bear'). Despite objections from other Clan members, the medicine woman adopts Ayla and brings her up like her own daughter, teaching her how to be a medicine woman. However, Ayla is very different from the members of her adoptive clan and her physical and mental 'superiority' makes it very hard for her to adapt and adjust.
This is the first book in 'Earth's Children' series but the imagination-lacking, predictable style of Auel makes me very, very unwilling to read the rest of the series. Ayla is an unconvincing heroine (tall, blond, blue-eyed as well as being a terrific athlete and super-duper intelligent) - maybe the first Barbie of the human history!
4/10 KitKats!
This is the story of Ayla who was orphaned by an earthquake when she was only 5. She is discovered and saved by a medicine woman from another clan ('Clan of the Cave Bear'). Despite objections from other Clan members, the medicine woman adopts Ayla and brings her up like her own daughter, teaching her how to be a medicine woman. However, Ayla is very different from the members of her adoptive clan and her physical and mental 'superiority' makes it very hard for her to adapt and adjust.
This is the first book in 'Earth's Children' series but the imagination-lacking, predictable style of Auel makes me very, very unwilling to read the rest of the series. Ayla is an unconvincing heroine (tall, blond, blue-eyed as well as being a terrific athlete and super-duper intelligent) - maybe the first Barbie of the human history!
4/10 KitKats!