Tantor Unabridged Classics: The Chessmen of Mars, with eBook (Audiobook)

from AngelaRenea

Ok, so I said in my last review (Thuvia, Maid of Mars) That I thought either book 3 or 4 was about rescuing a slave, but I think I was wrong and it was actually this one.It starts out promising, (sort of) with Tara (John Carter's daughter) standing up for herself and saying that she does not want...

from Juva

In this standard frame narrative, John Carter pays another visit to Earth to impart the story of how his headstrong daughter found herself a husband. Tara is the second most beautiful woman on Mars. (It should be noted that this complement doesn't comprehend very much as she is very nearly the on...

from antiquary

This story focuses on Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dehah Thoris, who is captured by the warriors of the city of Manatol, where they play living games of jetan or Martian chess, in which the living pieces fight to the death. These games are used as a form of social control --criminals may fig...

from marysneedle

Out of all the John Carter books I think I enjoyed this one the best. Burroughs introduced a couple pretty strange Barsoom creatures in this story, the Kaldanes, and the Rykors. Two separate creatures but dependent on one another. The story was kind of halloweenish in one regard with the horrible...

from ReneH

This fifth volume of the Barsoom series is very entertaining. Again some very original populations of Barsoom are introduced, and in this volume the fighting and killing is not so dominant as in some previous volumes. The story has Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris as the main charac...