Rich Blood (Jason Rich Book 1)
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This is my first Robert Bailey legal thriller. I’m more than halfway through and am enjoying it.\n\nJason Rich is one of those personal injury (PI) attorneys plastering the highways with billboards advertising his services: 1-800-GET RICH. Tacky maybe, but very effective at bringing in clients. Jason is rich and famous, but not at all respected. After all, he settles all his cases and has never spent a day trying a case in court.\n\nWhen his estranged and troubled sister, Jana, is accused of murdering her husband and the case against her seems “open and shut,” will he take on her defense? He has every reason not to, including everyone’s advice against it, his lack of experience in criminal matters, his own personal demons, and plain old common sense. No reasonable, competent attorney with zero experience in court and/or with the criminal law would ever take on a capital murder case. Then again, family is family and his sister and nieces have no one else.\n\nFor me, “Rich Blood” did not start off well. The first three chapters are devoted mostly to backstory about some not very nice people involved in some very questionable situations. And the prose initially seems wordy and clunky.\n\nBut I kept going and found that the prose improves and becomes more sure-footed and that the characters grow and acquire depth. The internal and external conflicts become more interesting and the stakes higher, even urgent, as the story progresses. And Mr. Bailey does a good job with the Alabama setting. I learned things about the state I did not know.\n\nAll in all, despite something of a rocky start, this is a good entertainment that fans of authors like John Grisham and Scott Turow may very well enjoy.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "A free First Read from Prime, that has lived up to being worthy of reading! Follow along as you find yourself invested in a story of lies, deception, sibling rivalry, and redemption!\nAs a disparaged ' billboard attorney' tries his first criminal case, defending his own sister, in a trial that is sensational! I promise you won't regret it-- or soon forget it."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Draws you in immediately and keeps your interest with each twist and turn. Could not put it down for any length of time.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I really enjoyed this story. It is well written with a nice story arc.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'hang on for dear life; YOUR dear life!\n\nRobert Bailey’s new book, “Rich Blood”, is a wild ride filled with all things Alabama: football, fishing, fried food, crazy family and a legal system you won’t believe. It’s the absurd theater version of “Mississippi Burning”, by Greg Isles; not quite Dukes of Hazard but if they were related, I wouldn’t be surprised.\n\nBroken down into 6 sections with 84 chapters and an epilogue, Bailey is the master of short attention span theater that appeals to today’s Tik Tok watching reader. For me, a more seasoned bibliophile, that aspect makes for a bumpy ride albeit easy to take a comfort break.\n\nBailey is also strong in developing characters and dialogue. I fully expect to find this book and sequel showing up as an Amazon Original on the Prime Video listing in the not too distant future. These folks are twisted, emotional, have huge hearts and are colorful to the point of needing warnings for language.\nOh, the Alabama bar association is not going to be very happy should they get wind of the antics going on\nin Guntersville and the “practice” of Jason Rich, Esq.\n\nOn the other hand, readers will have a good time, foul language aside, shaking their heads at the bizarre antics, surprisingly well veiled mysteries, and the visit to friendly, small town ‘Bama. Bless your heart📚'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'A fast read as you are quickly drawn in to the story.It has many twists and turns. Characters are fully fleshed out.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This novel grabs you with both hands and will not let go!\nWhen Braxton Waters is brutally murdered on the fourth of July, his drug addicted, alcoholic wife is the immediate suspect and she's dragged off to jail.\nJason Rich is leaving rehab for alcoholism when he receives word that his sister, Jana Waters, is being charged with the murder of her husband. Jason is a personal injury lawyer, with billboards all over Alabama and surrounding states... hardly the person one would want as their attorney in a capital punishment case...but he is full of surprises!\nAdd in a meth dealer, a trio of former military security, two teenage girls with attitude, along with some of the best courtroom writing that I've ever read, and you get a Robert Bailey novel.\nThis is the first time I've read this author, but it certainly won't be the last. I'm really looking forward to the next Jason Rich book."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Very, very good story with well conceived complex characters. Could not put it down. Literally. Jason Rich, just out of alcohol rehab and teetering on the brink of disbarment, is out of his lawyering depth defending his narcissistic, alcoholic, drug addicted, unrepentant and habitual liar of a sister who’s drug dealer will stop at nothing to get the $50K she owes him. Her husband’s murderer says she paid him to go the killing. Hold on! It’s quite a ride.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This was Book One of what is scheduled to be a Two Book series. I say scheduled because the second book is not set for release until June 2023.\nI have read several books by this writer, and find each to be equally excellent, perhaps due to my having a legal background.\nI don’t retell story lines in my reviews, and especially eschew spoiler alerts, but for those who also read Legal Thrillers, this is an excellent example of the SODDI defense. To say any more about that would be tantamount to spoiling the story line.\nI read several reviews from other readers but did not see any other reference to that Defense\nSo, if you like this genre, read this book and see if you agree.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Rich Blood by Robert Bailey introduced me to an author I will be following from now on. Until I met Jason Rich, an attorney some would call an ambulance chaser, I held up John Grisham's novels as definitive courtroom procedurals. Rich Blood is a read-it-in-one-sitting thriller featuring an alcoholic attorney just out of rehab called home to defend his sister against charges she had her husband murdered.\n\nThat's all I will say other than READ IT!!! It's terrific!"}]