I requested this book because the cover, title, and synopsis are amazing, however, I found it really boring and couldn't keep my attention on it. I think it is just me, though, because I'm a quite a bit of a mood reader.

Thank you publishers, Netgalley, and the author for granting my request to review this book.

I was severly underwhelmed this time.

The story had moments but I couldn't get into the characters.
It made the book a chore over an experience.

Hopefully, it will work better for you.

I can't give a positive review this time.

Three people - a 17-year-old local, a writer down on her luck and a newly-discovered grandson - a small coastal town and a treasure hunt that will consume them all!

The Treasure Hunter's Club is a cozy Canadian mystery told from three perspectives - Dandy, Cass and Peter - and it grabs you from the start. Set in Maple Cover, Nova Scotia, the town has always been fascinated by the lost gold of the Obelisk Treasure and the local Historial Society has been on the trail of it for years. When Peter and Cass arrive in town for different reasons, they join forces with Dandy to figure out the mystery of the treasure and why members of the Historical Society keep turning up dead.

This is an easy read - fast-paced and engaging. And when the big reveal comes, you'll be on the edge of your seat. At least, I was - I didn't see it coming!

Thank you, Grove Atlantic and NetGalley, for this ARC.

Thank you Netgalley for letting me read the ARC of this book!

But I was struggling with this one and decided to DNF 63% of the way through. I have been struggling to connect with the characters. I understand that some choices they make are made to look realistic, but sometimes the characters are just being plain stupid. And I also catch myself being bored out of my mind several times over. A lot is happening throughout, but because of the dry writing, I am struggling to engage with the story and the characters.

This was recommended by someone at an event and I was so happy to add this to my list! It’s brilliant and you will not be disappointed. Don’t ask, just buy and enjoy!

This book ended up being a fantastic ending and read but it did take a long time (at nearly 70% into the book ) to start feeling like things were starting to flow and come together. Several times i was tempted not to finish but i’m so glad i kept going and hung around to hear more particularly about Peter and Dandy. Cass just didn’t seem to fit well for me and seemed unnecessary to the plot. There was a lot to take in already with the story spanning several generations and multiple view points. I did end up enjoying this book, and I can see why the author wrote it the way he did and there are elements I greatly enjoyed. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this advanced copy in exchange for a review.

Oh *this* was fun! I really enjoyed the varied character point of views and all of the different mysteries threaded through The Treasure Hunters Club. Tom Ryan did a fantastic job of building both suspense and then a soft letdown during the novel's conclusion, allowing said conclusion to feel feel satisfying without the "payoff", And then—the epilogue. Phenomenal. This book launched me into reading about treasure hunts, both real and hoaxes—onward to The Lost City of Z!

What a wild ride.

Great group of characters, small town setting, packed full of mystery. An unputdownable adventure. What's not to love?

It took a little while for me to become invested in this book, I believe it was the volume of characters that needed to be introduced that stopped me from being immediately hooked. But as the story progressed I found myself becoming more interested in the intertwining lives. The present day twist was a great one, one that I didn't even expect. But I was much more interested in the past unfolding than I was with how the present storyline would play out. This book did have a clever way of bringing everyone and everything together, in the end, though.

Thank you to the publisher for the free copy in exchange for my honest review.

Really enjoyed this one! The way town was described was very atmospheric. I really was interested in a pirate treasure themed mystery which it delivered on. However the premise was a bit predictable and I didn’t find myself really connecting with the characters.

So pleased to have received this as an ARC.

I was intrigued immediately from the prologue and quickly became invested in the story.

I sometimes struggle with books where chapters alternate between characters but this worked really well. The detail and pace were well matched so you managed to get to know the characters but didn't get lost in the detail.

A part of the story appealed to the kid in me that loved the famous five and their adventures into hunting for treasures or foiling crimes. Who doesn't love a treasure hunt??

I especially loved the twists near the end, particularly with Peter as this was completely unexpected and there wasn't anything that gave that away until nearer the end!!

Would definitely recommend and am looking forward to more from this author!!

When you were a kid, were you captivated by tales of missing treasure and secret pirate hoards?

The Treasure Hunters Club was written for that kid in all of us that used to pore over those tales. The town of Maple Bay is known for the legend of the hidden pirate treasure that came ashore hundreds of years ago. We go back and forth in time between a group of five childhood friends and their present day grandchildren, along with several new arrivals in town. We see the effect this treasure and its legend has had throughout generations of their families. And when several people close to the mystery start turning up dead, new questions arise. What really happened so many years ago between those five young boys, and where is the hidden treasure?

This book was wonderful. I thought I knew what the twist was going to be and who the bad guy was, and I was so wrong. It was entirely unexpected and surprising and I loved it. I felt the narrative weaving back and forth between the past and the present, and the multiple POVs, was done seamlessly and flowed well. I was invested in the characters, and the fast paced mystery made it feel like you were on an actual treasure hunt with them. I thought it was a wonderful setting, well written mystery, and an engaging plot.

Despite the multiple murders this doesn't feel like a heavy book. It's light and fun and feels like a perfect book to curl up with on a rainy weekend, imagining yourself as a child running wild on the beach, searching for treasure washed ashore from a sunken wreck.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for the digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

Full disclosure - I received this book from Net Galley. As well, I consider Tom Ryan a good friend. However, I did not tell him I received a review copy of 'The Treasure Hunters Club'. My fear was I wouldn't enjoy this book (I have no idea why I had this fear) and then I simply wouldn't have written a review and carried on with this deep secret of disliking something of Tom's and never saying a word.
I'm happy I don't have to do this.

This is exactly the book I was looking for at that moment. Which is bizarre as I began it going 'I don't want to read another mystery right now, but I want to read what Tom wrote....' I've just finished the most recent Lehane and the soon-to-be-published Richard Price (Lazarus Man, which is, as well, great) and felt like reading something more straightforward without any level of 'mystery' at its core.

Instead, I got into this and could not put it down. I loved Cass, Dandy, and Peter. I loved the way they came together, suspicious of one another (as you'd be) but all open to the experience and ready for a change. This was, in so many ways, the thrust of the novel. A second chance, no matter how old you are.

Maple Bay is the perfect location. I can feel Cape Breton's salty air on every page. The action was just right, in amount and pacing. But what really stood out for me was the sense that these people exist. A good mystery certainly needs to be fantastic at times. Going beyond what might actually happen. And there are those elements here. But the characters were so well crafted that by the end of the book I felt like I was reading about the adventures of some old friends.

Tom Ryan is an exceptional writer of YA novels. And it was with great anticipation (and as noted before, trepidation) that I opened this book. Good writing is good writing, and all of the great things Tom does in his YA have transferred to this adult novel. I think we can say that Tom Ryan is a great writer, and leave it at that.

The only downside I can see is that this does not release until October and has been for me, even this early in the season, the perfect Summer read.

I have very mixed feelings about this book. In many ways I found it a bit clunky and terribly repetitive. On the other hand -- I stayed up until 3 am racing to the finish to read the conclusion. I did love the gradual unraveling of the story - but felt like some pieces got to be very repetitive without actually moving the story forward. Was it an enjoyable read - Yes! Was it slow in some spots? Yes!

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for the ARC

A riveting and thrilling mystery novel. It was fast-paced and twisty and an enjoyable read. It was fun to follow the our two main characters, especially because of the age gap.

A Tom Ryan twist worthy of KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF!
I devoured this book and was sad for it to end (but oh so satisfying). Cannot recommend it more highly. Mystery fans get on this one

Prior to requesting this book from NetGalley I wasn't familiar with the author, but the fact that he's written several young adult novels makes sense, as other than some occasional salty language, the story does play out more like a Hardy Boys adventure than an adult book. It was mostly a well-paced, riveting read, though it goes back-and-forth between first person perspective for some characters and third person for others which is a bit clunky at times, and there are readings from a decades-old journal that really could have skipped the fluff and stuck to the more pertinent parts. There are two pretty shocking twists that occur around the same time in the latter portions of the novel, one of which doesn't go the way it seems it's going to go and the other is straight out of nowhere, and I'm still on the fence as to how clever and/or silly it is. And one of the the main threads of the whole story, though it helps keep you guessing as to who is who and where are things going, honestly could have been completely left out of the book, as it's utterly unnecessary to the plot. I mostly enjoyed the book, but those two elements that just made the story longer really bugged me by the end. 3.5/5*

I really enjoyed this book, it has an incredibly fun and unique storyline with lots of twists. This was packed with action and suspense and I didn't want to put this down.

I really enjoyed this book. The main characters had such unique pathways as to how they were important to Maple Bay (and each other) and there were a few twists that I did not see coming. There were a lot of characters (mentioned, not actually present/alive) and I could have benefitted from a family tree or chart of who belonged to who at one point, but no other complaints. It had a strong adventure element as well as a mystery/thriller flare. There was even a dash of romance that I really saw going a different way. But everyone loves a hunt for some pirate treasure!

An action-packed and heartwarming treasure hunt with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers guessing until the end