Book Review - After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

Title: After Dark with Roxie Clark
Series: -
Author: Brooke Lauren Davis
 
Description: Roxie Clark has seen more dead bodies than your average seventeen-year-old. As a member of the supposedly-cursed Clark family, most of her ancestors have met tragic ends, including her own mother. Instead of fearing the curse, however, Roxie has combined her flair for performance and her gruesome family history into a successful ghost tour. But her tour never covers the most recent body she’s seen: her sister Skylar’s boyfriend, Colin Riley, found murdered in a cornfield.
 
A year after the murder, Roxie’s desperate to help Skylar find closure and start to heal. Instead, Skylar becomes fixated on finding the killer. As the sisters dig into what really happened, they discover that more than one person has been lying about the night. And the closer they get to the truth, the more Roxie starts to wonder if some scary stories might be better left untold.
 
Review: In “After Dark with Roxie Clark” we meet Roxie, a goth-girl who has her own gost tours. Here she tells her own tragic family history, using a bit of extra horror, drama and flair to spice it up a bit. Roxie has always had a fascination for horror and Halloween is her favorite holiday. Because of this, many teens at her school think she is weird or are scared of her. I liked Roxie immediately
 
After her sister Skylar’s boyfriend is found dead, Roxie hates to see her sister in tears and sorrow. Together they want to try and find the person who did it and they find out that more than one person has been lying about that faithful night.
 
How much I loved the characters of Roxie, that’s also how much I hated her sister Skylar. Being in her grief and her obsession to find out what happened to her boyfriend Colin, Skylar doesn’t really care about who she hurts. I hated the fact that a grieving teenager turned into this unlikeable brat.  
 
The mystery is interesting enough to keep reading, but it’s not extremely surprising. And the ending felt flat for me. It still is a pretty solid YA-mystery thriller.
 
Rating: 3/ 5