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Title: The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ISBN: 0-395-52453-9 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent 'follow-up' to Reindeer Moon
Comment: Writing a sequel to Reindeer Moon could certainly not be an easy task, but Animal Wife does an astonishingly good job. In Reindeer Moon we were staggered by this author's excellent descriptive prose relating nature's unsympathetic brutality to those humans of prehistory. Animal wife takes it even further, recounting man's brutality to one another. While told from a male perspective as opposed to Reindeer's female perspective, the mood is less forbidding and leans more towards the self-confidence that a future leader needs to have despite the unimaginable adversity. Once again the author's characters were markedly developed and anything but primitive with their complex social structure, complete with infighting, bickering and backstabbing. The only downside of this novel is that we readers are left with the anguish of this being the author's last work of prehistory fiction.

Rating: 5
Summary: Not much different than Reindeer Moon, but a well told tale
Comment: These two books could have been one book really, they are very much alike. Instead of the girl Yanan telling her story we have the boy Kori, son of the shaman Swift from "Reindeer". A good summer read, well worth it.

Rating: 4
Summary: Above average original work
Comment: This is a well written and entertaining book (though perhaps not as interesting as the author's other prehistoric novel, Reindeer Moon. It's quite different from some other more popular novels set in early human history, in part because Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is better able than other authors to get inside the heads of people very different from ourselves. It's not great literature, but it is certainly an interesting, engaging book.

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