![]() One never experiences the rewards of a carefully crafted, intensly purposeful story structure as illustrated in the four books that precede this one. Although still a good entetaining adventure, complete with its' landscape of outlandish concepts and science-fiction, I had the feeling that ERB wrote this as magazine installments, going through the motions to fulfill a deadline. This time, the protagonist is John Carter and Dejah Thoris' son, Carthoris. Thuvia, introduced in a previous book, gets all the attention in an all too familiar plot, as she falls victim to a kidnapping that threatens to throw all of Barsoom into a deadly war. ![]() A weak ERB novel is still pretty damn good it just doesn't reach the bench mark I've come to expect from the his other Mars tales. ![]() Mind you, that doesn't make it a bad book. One of the weakest in the series of ERB's "A Princess of Mars" chronicles, this book is written with less intensity and sophistication than Burroughs' other entries in the series. ![]()
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