A review by scrooge3
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.0

With the third book in the Tarzan series, Burroughs is beginning to figure out how to write a full novel. The first two books were more episodic, but here there is an almost complete story through most of the book. Burroughs also begins to experiment with flashbacks and interweaving subplots. Burroughs doesn't quite make this a complete success, though, because what should be the climax of the book occurs 20-30 pages before the end, and then he starts a completely new and mostly unrelated scenario that doesn't really add anything except page count. Nevertheless, this is an exciting adventure that holds up remarkably well a hundred years after it was written.