Reviews for The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children #3)

The average rating for The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children #3) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-02 00:00:00 Aaron Mccormack [After a bajillion times of saying he is going to leave, Jondalar finally does. Ayla is like, "OMGWTFBBQJONDALARISGONE?!?!!" to Nezzie and Nezzie is like, "Well, like, jah, he, like, totally loved you." And Ayla is like, "OMGWTFBBQJONDALARISGONE?!?!" And Nezzie is like, "Jah, he, like, thought you, like, didn't, like, love him." And Ayla is like, "BUT I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE JONDALAR!?!" And she runs off to him. And she does her Clan kneeling before him. And she FINALLY FRAKKIN' TELLS HIM SHE LOVES HIM. AND HE FINALLY FRAKKIN' TELLS HER HE LOVES HER. And you know what else? (YES THAT IS NOT ALL!!!) THAT'S IT!!! They f#$% (it's the same generic, cute and paste, graphic sex that we've seen the other bajillion times in this series), and it's over. There is no yelling, no "HOW DARE YOU HAVE SEX WITH RANEC", no "HOW DARE YOU WHORE YOURSELF OUT", no "BUT I THOUGHT I RAPED YOU ON THE HILLS AND YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE I HURT YOU", it's just OVER!!! If THAT is how you are going to end this plot...WHY did you make me go through HALF THE BOOK, drag this plotline out WAY past its point of believability, and suffer through the AGONIZING, REPETITIOUS "DOES HE/SHE LUUUUUURVE ME?!?!>!!!?!" (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-25 00:00:00 J C Larimore In the distant unknown , murky past ( no history books to tell their stories), during the era of the caveman , two groups of people struggle to survive in a cruel territory that someday the nation of Ukraine will be established ...our ancestors the Cro-Magnon man, the new arrivals from Africa, where the human race was born and the more primitive Neanderthals who have been in Europe for at least 200,000 years, never very numerous, short but quite powerful , very durable too and contrary to the modern view of them...intelligent, even speaking a language that will never be heard again. Nevertheless a weakness that proves fatal , a failure to progress, they have remained static.. unable or an unwillingness to improve or change for 1,000 centuries. The "Others " continue to seek a better life, new tools made, weapons, shelters , clothes , food and more lands to settle. Anything to make them abide ..increasing their population in contrast to the rivals , ( who they despise and the same sentiment is mutual from the enemy ) the obvious conclusion is confirmed, the bleak future no surprise, for one branch of mankind . Ayla a talented woman without a clan, banished in fact by the Neanderthals who found the orphan 5 -year -old , ( her parents succumbed in a devastating earthquake) and raised her... with a companion the man she loves Jondalar. Big , strong , attractive with brains that women find irresistible. After leaving Ayla's valley of horses at Jondalar's insistence they encounter a group of fierce Mammoth hunters...friendly though. She , her bold man , and strange menagerie, two horses, Whinney and Racer and soon a baby wolf..naturally called Wolf (we won't even mention the gigantic cave lion) . The hunters are shocked seeing the teenage girl riding a horse...back then these animals were eaten. The wolf a feared predator , she befriends, the young, tall, blonde -haired, beautiful girl of 17, must be some kind of a mighty ominous spirit , yet seems quite a normal looking person... they are accepted . In a land of astonishing blue ice, the massive freezing glaciers , little food supply , only a tribe that adopts to the inclement weather elements , can hope to prosper , always needing to be alert in this unforgiving environment. Ayla meets another man, Ranec, she feels an attraction for and with no rules back then anything goes... stay or follow the jealous traveler Jondalar in his dream to return home, she must decide but first an exciting , and dangerous mammoth hunt in the cold north, if the nearby apocalyptic volcano doesn't become too violent . This extremely popular book series 45 million copies sold and counting, maybe not quite accurate as new research has shown, yet is the closest anyone today can experience the atmosphere of the crude time, no civilization , intensely superstitious people, harsh customs, strange ways and only the fittest prevailed...