The story flows at a pleasant pace and has a good amount of action and excitement. The structure of the novel is well plotted and executed. Her musings on plant life and animal behavior will delight anyone who has read Thoreau or Emerson and you will recognize in her book some of the same childish wonder you often find in Thoreau’s diaries or Emerson’s poetry. When I am reading valley of the horses, everything else seems to melt away and I become a part of the landscape, and a ‘fly on the wall’ in an ancient clan. The flora and fauna pop out of the book and I can almost smell the grassy herbaceousness of the meadows where Ayla lives and hunts. When I saw that ‘Valley’ got a measly three and a half stars, (!) I was compelled to write a review.Īuel’s wonderfully lucid descriptions and rhythmic prose are a sumptuous delight that continue in ‘Valley of Horses’. I loved Clan of the Cave Bear and was happy to see that it had many reviews and was rated four and a half stars overall.
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