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epearl8 's review for:
A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Princess of Mars remains one of the best pulp sci-fi books ever written. like all of Burroughs writing it is a page turner that is hard to put down. Action, adventure, and derring-do are throughout, along with a surprising amount of intrigue. However, the book is let down by it's climax. What the movie adaptation did better than this book was the increased characterization of Sab Than. While most pulp villains were deliciously smug, cruel, vicious, etc.
Sab is not much of anything other than being in the way of John's romance with Dejah. When he dies and the Zodangans are defeated, it feels somewhat empty. We only cheer their destruction because they are at war with Helium, for reasons we don't even know. More time spent on crafting a worthy villain would have made this a perfect adventure novel. But perhaps this is something Burroughs developed more down the road.
Sab is not much of anything other than being in the way of John's romance with Dejah. When he dies and the Zodangans are defeated, it feels somewhat empty. We only cheer their destruction because they are at war with Helium, for reasons we don't even know. More time spent on crafting a worthy villain would have made this a perfect adventure novel. But perhaps this is something Burroughs developed more down the road.