Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: ...pass the prehistoric hootch, please!

Dreary book that advances the story very little. The settlement Ayla ends up in reminds me very much of some sort of prehistoric country club where mate-swapping looms on the horizon and everybody drinks alcoholic barma during dawn-of-man cocktail hour. The story of the taming of Wolf and Whinney is told repeatedly and the recitation of the "Mothers Song" seems to appear every few pages and makes one yearn for a male deity to show up. Save your money and get it from the library.