It's easy enough to get through but it's a weak story with a lot of purple dressing up around it. The plot "twist" is easy to predict, to the point where writing it out would almost be redundant if you've read the blurb. The island is overly depressing and the sequence of events is bafflingly set in the modern day where the local council would definitely intervene (unless this is an advanced critique of the hollowing out of neoliberal Britain). There's just not much here to write home about. The characters talk in silly, over dramatic ways and the author splices together all sorts of flashbacks and perspectives to the point where every other paragraph is a new chapter. There's very little actual "horror" and the "shocking" events that do happen aren't barely meaty enough to warrant this book's consideration as a horror book.