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RE: Book Review: The Valley of the Horses. Book Two of the Earth's Children Series by Jean M. Auel.
Personally i never mind books that split up the plot from one characters perspective to another. My only requirement is that the book flows well regardless of characters or story lines. If the story flows well i will get drawn into it from start to finish. Loving to read anyway that counts as the majority of books for me but there are a few exceptions to the rule.
This book contains sex scenes, gore, death and character experiencing suicidal depression.
Also this is always a plus to me.
The book flows relatively wellnin the way that the time line for one side of the character story happens at roughly the same time as the following chapter of the other. However since for two thirds of the book the characters a hundreds of kilometers apart, the transition of ones experience to another is jarring since they are not experiencing the same events till the last third of the book.
I can see why you weren't that happy with it then. If the relevance isn't there between the two stories it can be fairly frustrating to go back and forth for no apparent reason. Obviously in the last third the two storyline converge. But was it really nessessary to do it this way? I don't know.
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