The Halloween Tree

I really liked this cover, and of course it's considered a Halloween classic, so I felt like I had to read it. If this is a favorite of yours, I'm glad you enjoy it, this is my opinion and it isn't meant to battle or diminish yours!
Honestly, I'm not sure if it's me, or my mindset when I picked this up, but with this being a classic Halloween story I really expected something else. This kind of boils down to a group of children getting a haunted history lesson all while their best friend might actually die at the outcome? And then with the ending?! I'll keep it spoiler free, but I could see this easily in adult horror, but for kids???
Even with this being for children I kind of felt myself lost and confused for a vast majority of this book. The closer and closer it got to the end, the less and less I wanted to keep reading honestly. That doesn't happen to me often. 
Personally a 2/5*, just wasn't for me.