Madroman is basically written out of the book when he’s not even present, and Laramar’s big scene at the end is just a reminder of what a loser Jondolar is.
Of the three, Brukeval is dispatched with no interesting outcome at all. Laramar is the local drunk who is jealous of Jondolar.
Brukeval is a man of mixed spirits who loves Ayla but hates the Clan. Madroman is the guy who Jondolar permanently affected by knocking his teeth out when they were juveniles, and now he’s a phony trying to become a Zelandoni as well. Auel set up three potential antagonists in book five of the series ( Shelters of Stone) that seem like they’ll cause a big issue in book six. This ends up causing some problems in her relationship with Jondolar. To do so, she spends much of the beginning of the book studying and traveling. The majority of the story is Ayla learning to be a Zelandoni, the equivalent of a shaman and a healer. Auel tries to recapture some of the excitement of new settings by having Ayla go on a tour when she becomes a spirit woman, but it falls flat as the formula of “look at her wolf, she talks funny, let’s look at cave paintings” gets repetitive on the second go around and downright tedious each time after that. Conversely, book two was Ayla meeting Jondolar, book four was traveling with Jondolar, and book six is married strife with Jondolar. Book one introduced Ayla to the Clan book three to her first human tribe, and book five to her forever home. Throughout the series, I found the even numbered books to be worse than the odd ones. Five books later I am really disappointed that aside from one brief encounter with two Clan people and a few others of mixed spirits that whole storyline is forgotten in favor of Jondolar’s amazing manhood and his journey home. I was interested then in what would happen to her son, as well as to all of the Clan under the new leader. *******Spoilers Follow******* At the end of that book, Ayla is leaving the Clan people she has spent nearly all of her life with as well as leaving behind her child Durc who is born of mixed spirits. I’m going to spoil the end of that book right here, so quit reading if you haven’t read the beginning of this series. The final book in the Earth’s Children series is The Land of Painted Caves, This series kicked off with one of my favorite books in memory, The Clan of the Cave Bear.
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