The Valley of Horses

I personally enjoyed this book the best and found the ones after the third book, The Mammoth Hunters, to be a bit slower. However, Earth's Children is a superb series of books written by Jean M Auel over 30 years. It follows the European prehistory life of Ayla who is basically the forerunner of modern humans. I was happy when book 6 The Land Of The Painted Caves was finally written because the caves still exist.

i was excited at first to read this book, to carry on reading about Ayla's life. However i have to say that i did skip a few paragraphs because i was getting a bit bored and i could not wait for Jondalar to meet Ayla. (Its amazing how your emotions get entwinned with the character.)

Overall, the book was a good read, but it seem a lot of it was based on descriptions of the environment, which was simply just driving me mad lol. But its a small price to pay when you get so engrossed with the actual story.