ERB usually churned out a Tarzan book a year, on top of his other output. So as you can imagine sometimes they aren’t that good. Tarzan and the Forbidden City, the 20th in the series, is by the numbers Tarzan: relative goes missing in Africa, kidnapping by apes, kidnapping by cannibals, a subsequent carousel of kidnapping, lion stabbing, a crypto-civilization with two warring factions, arena blood sport, and so forth.
The thing that keeps it from sitting at the bottom of the barrel like Jungle Tales of Tarzan or Tarzan Triumphant is that when they finally do get to the titular forbidden city there is some rather imaginative and action packed scenarios. Imagine Tarzan and company in underwater diving suits in a battle to the death with a school of giant carnivorous horned sea horses. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
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