...Egads, what a let-down.I won't repeat the criticisms so eloquently conveyed in the other reviews on this page (99 percent of which I agree with, especially the ones that point out that Auel smuggles in a geography lesson and calls it a story because she couldn't come up with one), but I would like to add one point of my own about why I'm so disappointed:After 4 books of being told how Jondalar's people won't accept a woman who had borne the child of a "flathead" and dreading the struggles she would face when she finally arrived, we find these Zelandonocrats to be a California-style culture who receive the news with a shrug and a "whatever" attitude, and now it's time for Lamaze class. They'll probably invent the analyst's couch and liposuction before they get around to inventing the wheel.And I waited 12 years for this? Come on, Jean, I know you can do better. Can't you???