This book had potential, but it was another disappointment.

The actual horror story was disjointed, involving ancient native burial sites, animate (and perhaps sentient....this was never made clear) stones and a creepy wooden doll. How it all ties in is rather unclear.....the author spent more time describing characters crawling around in subterranean tunnels or waiting tables at the local family restaurant. This could have been a good horror novel, if the writer had chosen to......but no.......it was a waste of my time.

It was also unfortunate that the author chose to have his characters own a horse. If he had done a little research, or maybe just talked to someone who knows something about horses this book would not have been such an epic fail for me. Instead he just assumed that horses act pretty much the same way dogs do, so I had the added agita of bizarre and inexplicable equine behavior.

This was one of the horror novels I had hopes of really liking. Instead, I am going to go through my to- read list and cut a bunch of similar horror novels loose. In the past I was willing to wade through a dozen snoozers like this in order to find a [b:Long Lankin|9206583|Long Lankin (Long Lankin, #1)|Lindsey Barraclough|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328488271s/9206583.jpg|14086213] or a [b:House of Small Shadows|18161866|House of Small Shadows|Adam Nevill|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372962202s/18161866.jpg|25522969] but now I just want to read the good stuff.

Nightstone was not the good stuff. ( )

Pretty decent horror novel. Never really reaches a satisfying conclusion. ( )