Forest of the Night

All the girls who work at my local comic store strongly recommended this, and unfortunately I couldn't get into the story no matter how hard I tried. Nevertheless, I am going to get the second volume to see if it gets any better.

I wanted to like Coffin Hill, but it was a sloppily written mess with a character who looks like they fell into a pile of Hot Topic cliches. The story is about a family of witches who have some sort of connection with a big bad evil thing that readers never really get a good grasp on. When Eve, our main character, is a rebellious (re: asshole) teenager, she wakes up this evil, letting it eat one of her friends and drive another to the local psych ward. Flash forward ten years and Eve is a cop who just stopped a serial killer, except then she's shot by... who knows who, and then she's not a cop because reasons? In any case, she goes back home because supposedly she has nothing better to do? As I said, the story and characters are a mess. I'm not sure why Eve does what she does, but once back at Coffin Hill, she realises the big bad in the forest is back, and she needs to stop it by detectiving/witching/being a pain in the ass. Stuff happens, people die, Eve is angsty, and understanding is low. The end of the book ends on a cliffhanger that isn't very compelling, and I am glad I grabbed this book at a discount retailer.