| After becoming an outcast from the Neanderthal clan, Ayla begins her search for her own kind, but arrives in a lush valley, and finding all the resources she needs decides to stay. Her trials and struggles included such discoveries as learning a simple way of creating fire and raising wild animals, specifically a baby horse and an injured lion cub, to be her friends. In a parallel story line the Cro-Magnon Jondalar begins a journey with his brother, but they are better prepared for most of the extremes and struggles that they overcome. Their stories converge as Jondalar is attacked after his brother is killed, coincidently by the Lion that Ayla raised from a cub. She rescues Jondalar and during his recuperation they struggle to teach and learn from each other.They both admire each other and eventually reveal deep feelings of love, which they finally consumate their passion in a sensitively written rite of passage that had been denied to Ayla by the male dominated society of her adopted clan family. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - thoughtful Time/era of story - 1600-1899 - Romance/Romance Problems Yes Kind of romance: Life of a profession: Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Job/Profession/Status story Yes Exploring into the wild Yes kind of story - surviving natural elements Lover is Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen Main Adversary Identity: - Female Age: - a teen How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 6 () Europe Yes European country: - Eastern Europe Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of hetero sex - Boob talk! - Vagia talk! - Weiner talk! Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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