Tower of Evil

by Mary Main

When Tory moves to California with her aunt after her parents die in a fire, she confronts danger and secrets in her strange neighbor and his quiet daughter.

Genres: Young Adult, Horror, Mystery

174 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[Jeffrey Canino]

What a doozy: a California beach-dwelling rock star named DAG 🎸 🤘🏻believes himself to be a descendent of the ancient Philistines and so hopes to sacrifice his young daughter to Moloch 🔥 in order to grant him and his band the power to... uhm, spread his message of song to the world 🌎 🎶 (???). But first he needs to counteract the prying, meddling nature of his orphaned teenage neighbor (and her magical sword necklace 🗡 ) by putting her under his thrall and making her his new bride of blood and fire. Like I said: a doozy.

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay, but nothing special. I also found it a bit dumb how Elissa painted an oil painting for Tory, and Tory was touching just a few hours later. Oil paint takes months to dry! You touch it and you ruin it!

* 14-year-old Tory is going to live with her Aunt Julie because her parents have been killed in a fire.
* Tory sees a black building on a cliff and finds out that it's the home of a rockstar, somehow she becomes obsessed with his 12-year-old daughter Elissa, and is convinced that she's in danger, and that she's supposed to be her little sister.
* Tory meets the rockstar (Dag) and doesn't like him, she's convinced that Dag is trying to hurt her and hurt Elissa.
* Eventually things come to a head when Dag tried to sacrifice Elissa to a pagan god, but Tory rescues her and Dag ends up burning to death instead.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was an odd child and would spend my afternoons at the library picking out random books to read. This was one of them. I remember thoroughly enjoying it, though I couldn't tell you a single thing about the story now... Except that there is a tower and a girl and some evil. Maybe I should look into it, eh?

[Lydia B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short but great writing, would definitely have liked a sequel to see where the girls end up. Not what I expected based on how it started but ended exactly as expected.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 2 out of 5]

rock band dude tries to sacrifice his daughter and her friend in a ritual gone wrong

Also the friend loses her sword necklace and it becomes the topic of conversation for many, many chapters

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's Good versus Evil. It's old religion versus new religion. I didn't like it or understand why when I was younger and read it. I reread it as an adult and completely think it's too dark for most younger readers.

[Stacy Simpson · Rating 1 out of 5]

A story about a young girl who lost her parents finding herself in a new town with her aunt. Once there she’s exposed to a goth kinda rock singer who’s lost his wife and has a young daughter.

I guess for a young girl this may be a good read but I found it drab and lacking substance. Sorry.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. Definitely a YA book, but a quick read with an interesting plot. I didn't feel like it rambled on too much like some YA novels do. Also, happy they tied up one particular loose end. Overall, not bad.

[Luke Zocher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lol

[Brandon Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book I ever read in my life! I thought it was simply amazing. I do not remember everything that was in the book, but I do remember how her description simply blew me away (back then). Without this book in my life, I doubt I would have ever given books a chance.

First was the cover, I was in love (easy at 13). The illustration seemed to move like in Harry Potter news papers. The title made me think and wonder. If only the author knew how much this book meant to me back then and how it has impacted my life 20 years later!

[Jeremy Cruz · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't all that great, I seemed to forget what I just read easily while reading this book. This was a book I chose to read for my grade 6 book report. I thought it was interesting, but not great. But I don't think thriller is my forte.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I Love this book it is the best! I read this book in fifth grade, I absolutely loved it. I want to reread it but have not found it since I read it in fifth grade. I recommend it to everyone that is in fifth grade or higher. That’s all for now.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would always start to read this book and never finish it for some reason. But once I got passed the part I always stopped at I kept going and it ended up being a pretty decent book.