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A review by karaklos
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
2.0
This book has been in my stash for a long time and I had a difficult time getting through it. The clan and the story were just not believable to me.
The story was fairly predictable and became a repeated cycle of the main character getting in trouble and then someone bailing her out.
Many of the details of the clans capacity for knowledge conflicted with their thoughts and actions. Also the idea that they could not grow as a people seemed to conflict with actual events.
There were many gruesome scenes in the book and horrible treatment of women that were hard for me to read. How is this is considered a YA book?
While lengthy descriptions of the environment are something I typically enjoy, in this case they seemed to dominate the book. Whole years would pass by where you didn’t know what the main character encountered and felt but you knew every kind of plant and flower that was present or how a tool was made.
The story was fairly predictable and became a repeated cycle of the main character getting in trouble and then someone bailing her out.
Many of the details of the clans capacity for knowledge conflicted with their thoughts and actions. Also the idea that they could not grow as a people seemed to conflict with actual events.
There were many gruesome scenes in the book and horrible treatment of women that were hard for me to read. How is this is considered a YA book?
While lengthy descriptions of the environment are something I typically enjoy, in this case they seemed to dominate the book. Whole years would pass by where you didn’t know what the main character encountered and felt but you knew every kind of plant and flower that was present or how a tool was made.