I was really disappointed in the third volume of Burroughs' Barsoom series. While the first two books were delightfully campy fun, the third was trite and tedious, even though it tried to tell the same type of story.

In the previous installment, The Gods of Mars, the story left off with our hero's wife being imprisoned with two other women, one of whom was trying to kill her, as John Carter looked on helpless to save them. Instead of an equally engrossing adventure to save them, my husband lost interest in this book completely and I struggled to finish the audiobook only because I wanted to know how the series ended.

It's a really unfortunate way to end the series. I know there are more Barsoom books, but now I'm probably not going to check them out.