Books

I just finished reading the Ancestor Saga series by Lori Holmes.
I saw it advertised as "if you enjoyed The Clan of the Cave Bear..." 
It's been quite a number of years since reading Jean Auel's series, but I did enjoy it, so I figured to give this a whirl.

While there are certainly similarities between the two and there really isn't another series that you could compare it to, the two sagas are very different. 
Holmes plays more towards the creators/gods than I remember in Auel's Cave Bear series. I also think that the Ancestor Saga does more to emphasize both the good and evil characteristics of humanity and shares some philosophy of how we are better when we work together, learning from each other and utilizing our strengths while exposing our weaknesses.

Although this is an ancient tribal story, it very much reflects the tribal culture we find ourselves in today and the author gives her warnings as to the future of humanity that fails to overcome our destructive nature.
It's definitely not for everyone and may not even appeal to some Cave Bear fans.
It's a strange romance series.
It's a likely kind of tribal struggle.
It's a complicated and primitive religion/philosophy story.
And it very much captures the humanity that both blesses and curses us all.
Yes! There is hope for humanity.

Fantasy, romance, primitive battles, primitive religion, blind faith, intolerance and exclusion, inclusion and acceptance of new ideas and philosophy--it's all here in this series.
I'll give it **** on the Amazon Kindle rating.

Now on to something else.

John