A review by meghanalexandra
Black Cairn Point by Claire McFall

2.0

More like a 1.5 rating. I was excited for this book - the premise definitely intrigued me. But in the end, it had a lot of typical YA, horror tropes that made it fairly predictable and just kind of boring. We have five teenagers (who can all be slated into the Cabin in the Woods archetypes quite neatly) who don't even seem to really like each other so why they're going camping together is beyond me. Lots of drama. They disrupt an ancient Druid site and things get pretty weird. Oh, and there's a twist at the end. Unfortunately I saw that one coming even though the author never really indicates that. The main character has all the hallmarks of being an unreliable narrator but the author never explores that fully, which is a shame because that would have been fun. All around, I wouldn't recommend this one. Check out books by Denis Lehane or Shirley Jackson instead if you want creepy settings and unreliable narrators.