Whether Zelandoni - once Zolena, the last woman Jondalar loved - would feel jealous or threatened by Jondalar's love for Ayla.In The Valley of Horses, she was built up as a rather formidable woman with a big temper. How Marona, the woman Jondalar left at the altar, so to speak, would respond to Jondalar's return.Would they threaten to exile Ayla, and would Jondalar have to join her? How the oh-so-superior Zelandonii would respond to the news that Ayla was raised by the Clan and had a half-Clan son.The major conflicts that she had set up were: For not only did it cause her to lose the taste and flow of her series, but it also allowed her fans to come up with alternate - often superior - resolutions to the conflicts that she had created. Then one day in the early 2000s I returned and learned that the fifth novel was coming! Fans had speculated for years, and now we would finally find out what happened!Īs it turned out, Jean Auel's time delay would prove costly. I stopped coming to the message board for a while. The delay was attributed to many things: the discovery of the Chauvet cave in the mid-1990s health problems in her family a desire to lecture at events and spend time with her grandchildren. Yes she's still working on it"), but Internet-averse Auel remained at a distance. Now and then Jean Auel's son would pop in to inform us of her progress (which boiled down to "No she's not dead. By the time I read Auel's first four novels, two years had already elapsed since The Plains of Passage, so I would have to wait, oh, another three maybe?Īs the years passed, I frequented an Earth's Children message board, where people started to question whether the fifth novel would ever be released. So who could blame Auel if she took a year off before starting the long-anticipated "Ayla meets the Zelandonii" novel? If she approached it fresh, the story would only be better for it.
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