Reviews

The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon

paralanguage's review

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

bkoser's review against another edition

Loved these as a boy. My parents bought me three of the 1920s reproductions that Applewood was printing in the 90s. Then my uncle gave me a huge bag of the 70s reprint versions. Probably the first 30 chapter books I ever read were Hardy Boys.

I set my expectations low but was still disappointed with how repetitive the writing was. But the girls had fun.

morgangiesbrecht's review

3.0

And just like that I feel ten-years-old again.

ericbuscemi's review

3.0

I recently found an old copy of this book in my parents' attic, and gave it a quick read to see if it was anywhere nearly as interesting as I found The Hardy Boys books to be as a kid (I read all of them growing up).

Surprisingly, for the most part, The Tower Treasure held its own. There were exceptions -- some outdated language and character names, and the 1950s Boy Scout feel of the two main characters -- but the underlying mystery was solid and kept me interested.

mainebookworm22's review against another edition

How fun! I never read these while growing up, I was a Nancy girl myself. Frank and Joe start out trying to find out who stole their friend Chet's car and end up solving the Tower Mansion robbery. I can see why they were so popular back in the day -- action, danger, independence, cliff hanger chapter endings. I might just have to read a few more.

athenaevarinya's review against another edition

2.0

I suppose this was great fiction in its day, but the writing is subpar to what I'm used to. I also found some grammar errors in it too.

racheldare14's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

ehays84's review against another edition

3.0

I read this one to Jackson recently, and I had been looking forward to doing so for a while since I remember loving these as a kid. I don't remember any of the plots of them at all, even though I read essentially all of them. The reason is that I was probably mostly in 1st through 3rd grade when I read them, and then didn't read them again. They were probably very important for building myself up as a reader of longer chapter books, so I am very thankful to them for that.

That said, this book wasn't very good just purely reading it again and judging it for what it is. I don't think my tastes were that bad at that age, so my guess is that the author grew into these as he continued to write. Jackson really liked it a lot because there is that mystery-tension, but it wasn't too scary for him, and he really likes to guess clues and solutions. So I am hoping he takes up reading these himself (which he certainly is capable of doing) rather than me having to read a lot more of these to him.

merelaw's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

laurakathryn1289's review against another edition

3.0

My review for all of these will probably be the same. They are very old books so the vocabulary is outdated and they also have echoes of problematic thinking but overall they are fun and harmless books. I am reading them to my six year old son and he loves them. He would give them five stars.