Another fantastic read, though even more action than the second.
Not sure how much I really need to recall these individual books in the series. Just remember that this was the mad chase for love in the Yellow North.

2.5

At this point, John Carter should probably always assume that his wife is in distress. It will cut down on his time assessing the situation, I think. 

In this book, the third in Carter's adventures on Mars, our hero goes from one pole of the red planet to the other. Where the South Pole is full of dark-skinned religious zealots, the North Pole is full of lemon-hued big-game hunters. All enemies are out to get John Carter and steal his beloved Dejah Thoris.

He has left his son from the last book behind while he broodily scours the planet for clues to aid his damsel, who is, as usual I guess, in distress. 

That cliffhanger from the last book? The one where he'd have to go a whole year before finding out whether his wife survived? Carter just isn't the kind of guy to sit around for that.

I grew up on cheesy scifi movies and books, and I still have a soft spot for them. They're pure nostalgia for me. This is campy scifi at its finest. 

I mean, just look at the series' plot holes… Lots of things from the first two books are abandoned or forgotten in Warlords. Carter's immortality and perpetual youth aren't discussed. Nor are his family's guaranteed abandonment issues. And for goodness sake, what happened to Ned?!

None of it matters to the reader as they follow Carter's melodramatic self-aggrandizing adventures. You roll your eyes at his monologues and you cheer him on in the heat of battle. He's a man of the (Martian) people, through and through. 

I can't wait to pick up the next one.

I thought that this book was just exhausting. I'm tired of John Carter being pompous, racist, sexist, dim, self righteous, egocentric, and war hungry. I'm tired of spending book after book starting war after war over Dejah Thoris who has fallen into the 'damsel in distress' ditch. I'm tired of knowing ten pages before John Carter what is about to happen/his mistake/the solution to a problem. If you can get past all of that, there is a chance you will enjoy, now that Carter has civilized the Black men, conquering yet another race, I mean group of enemies.

A great conclusion to the three-book arc of the original John Carter trilogy. Definitely the most worthy read of the three.

John Carter's adventures continue.... A harmless romp through the Martian realm. This time to the north pole of the planet in search of his beloved princess.

This third in the Barsoon series is actually a direct continuation of the last novel, so much so that the two novels could easily be merged into one. As with the last novel, this one is full of action and adventure and light on almost everything else, but unlike the last one where the reader is left groaning for some of the plot twists that are so foreshadowed the reveals are seen from miles away, The Warlord of Mars avoids such plot gimmicks and is so much the better for it.

If you read The Gods of Mars and enjoyed it, The Warlord of Mars is a must.