Singletusk: A Novel of the Ice Age

I picked up this book awhile ago because I enjoyed Kurten's Dance of the Tiger. Singletusk is its sequel. Unfortunately it really doesn't have the charm of the first book -- the plot is all over the place, and the characters are not very well developed. While I felt that in the first novel Kurten's vast knowledge of the geography, the climate and the artifacts of the Paleolithic world made for a highly rewarding read, much less of that atmospheric element is available in Singletusk.

Perfectly fine sequel to "Dance of the Tiger", in which the children of Tiger play as prominent a role as do the people of Tiger's own generation. I'm currently attempting a few of Kurten's essays and am concluding that he was a better novelist than essayist. I really wish both books in the series had included maps, however. The characters travel from one place to another very frequently, but one has little idea of where any of these places are, in spite of some attempts to explain in an afterward.