The House of Caine by Ken Eulo - Book Review

This book is about vampires. That’s the best way to put it. It is the sixties and a clutch of vampires are living in a town called Millhouse in the United States, where they have been selectively feasting on people for years.

The author talks a lot about drugs and the Vietnam War. The main character—Rob Martin, a journalist, comes home to his town and inevitably ends up facing off against the vampires.

It’s pretty cut and dry, no twists or turns in this one; one person versus a horde of vamps. 

It might have been a good book if Ken Eulo’s writing wasn’t so bland and all over the place. It is as if he dumps all of his thoughts onto the page in no coherent order.

The book starts out confusing. The protagonist comes back to town, after years of being away, with his buddy and a car full of drugs (but Mr. Eulo sounds as if he never even used any drugs before, in his life, and based the whole scene on Fear and Loathing).

Even the scene before it is poorly written. A woman is being chased by vampires through a graveyard, but it is so bland and generic even the writing is so tame that at no point am I scared or sympathetic.

Do they even eat her? What happened? It goes on like this for most of the book. The dialogue is dry with no real intrigue. I do not care about any of the characters. The end is meh. It goes on forever and ever with long spouts of nothingness that don’t add to the story.

Quite frankly, it’s just boring. I give it a 4/10. I can say with supreme confidence I won’t be going out to look for another Ken Eulo book.