Reviews for Precaution

The average rating for Precaution based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-17 00:00:00 Roshia Adams One of the better Tarzan tales. The plot was a bit out there, but overall it moved well and kept me interested. This story takes place during the German Invasion of Africa in WWI, so we actually get to see Tarzan picking up a gun and shooting people, which was quite a change of pace. There's also airplanes in this story, another unusual event for Tarzan novels, at least up to this point. The hidden city in the valley isn't quite as unusual but is still cool. Tarzan is a bit more violent in this one, as the Germans have burned his home, killed and crucified one of his friends, and also "murdered his wife." Slightly darker than most Tarzan stories, even though most of them aren't exactly lighthearted. Overall if you are a Tarzan fan, pick this one up. Pretty much everything you'd want out of a Tarzan novel.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-02 00:00:00 Christoph Mollenhauer Long on action, short on, well, brains. Burroughs uses a (seemingly) random heinous crime by the Germans in east Africa to jump-start Tarzan into some WWI German-hunting action, then just as he's about to retreat back to the jungle to mope, he gets dragged into rescuing a British airman captured by belligerent warriors, and finally all are kidnapped to a hidden remote valley of inbred whites. Unbelievable twists at the end of the final chapter left me cold -- the initial crime was a huge well-planned ruse (yet everyone behaves as an idiot afterwards, go figure), and other thoughtless occurrences. Not ERB's best plotting. You'll have to take the racial/cultural and gender stereotypes as a sign of the times -- they aren't terrible, but they are noticeable.