I was so excited when I heard Jean M. Auel was publishing her sixth and final book in the Earth Children Series: Land of the Painted Caves. Sadly, my excitement quickly turned to boredom as I began reading the book. Folks, I am 350+ pages into this book, and sadly, very sadly, I am giving up – it doesn’t even matter to me how the story will wrap up. This book is DULL! I can’t even begin to describe how disappointed I feel as I loved The Clan of the Cave Bear and the other 4 books in the series. Granted, I was probably in late middle school or early high school when I read those books, and I’m older and a different person now, but everyone always loves a good story and Land of the Painted Caves is not a good story. LOTPC lacks everything that the previous 5 books had: rich descriptions of the environment, the people, the daily activities, a page turning plot. With the previous five books in this series, I truly felt I was escaping to another place and time, could get lost in the story, and cared about what happened to the characters. I am sad to say that I do not recommend LOTPC — just enjoy the good memories you have from her other five books.
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What a huge bummer that the finale is such a let down. You may be older but you’d still expect to find yourself wanting to read on to find out the conclusion especially after 5 other books in the series.
I actually never finished the 4th Twilight book (big Twilight geek here) because it got wierd. They often either go wierd or try to fit too much into the last one.
I never read any of the Twilight books, but I can certainly share your disappointment in having the final book be such a bummer.
There are tons of negative reviews on bn.com I wasn’t even halfway through the book when I gave up, I still had 400+ pages to keep on trying to plow through. I returned the book to the store.
I really think it is stinky how the book is so bad yet the author is still going to reap profits
I read the entire thing and the ending was horrible!
sorry to hear that, I ended up googling “spoil alert” so I could find out how it ended, it sounded horrible! I have no idea what happened with this particular title, I really really enjoyed all the other books in this series.