​BLOODY SHEETS BY ANDY RAUSCH - BOOK REVIEW

rac·ist
/ˈrāsəst/
noun
plural noun: racists
a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

This book is action packed, from start to finish there wasn’t a second that I would have changed, removed or redone. The characters will make you feel exactly what they feel and the description is a perfect balance of letting the reader envision but making you see it the way the author intended. This is an emotionally charged book. It is rare that a book will make me cry. This one did. I felt the loss, the power and vengeance.
 
It all starts out with a young black man living in Alabama. He is in love and has just found out he is going to be a father. He is so excited and has planned a special evening for him and his lady. They have to go to another town to celebrate because she is white. It has been kept secret that they are involved. He is getting ready for their date when someone knocks on the door. He is home alone. His mother is working and his dad is not in the picture. He freezes and the knocking becomes pounding. His heart races and he looks out the window into the darkness. What he sees terrifies him. Men shrouded in white sheets. Yes, that’s right it’s the KKK. He runs to the back door to try to flee into the woods behind the house when the door is kicked in and he is grabbed. Beaten, bloodied and stabbed in the eye he is drug across the yard and past the burning cross in the yard. Someone has discovered his secret.
 
A few paragraphs later the story flips to a man that has been recently released from prison. He is still engaging in criminal activity and is the enforcer for a boss. If you don’t pay then he comes to play. Trust me, you don’t want that to happen. In the middle of making someone pay the price his phone rings. He knows that ringtone. It is his ex wife. He answers it and she is crying and hysterical. What she tells him makes his blood run cold. His son has been murdered. She demands that he come and set things right. He calls his former cell mate a Mexican man and they travel to the small backwoods town. They are pulled over by a white cop as they enter town and harassed. Finally making it to the ex wife’s house the plans for vengeance are swiftly out into motion. What ensues is a war that left me feeling vindicated for the victim.
 
I will not tell you more than this because I don’t want to ruin the book for the reader. If I was to compare this book to a movie or another book it would definitely be John Grisham’s, A Time To Kill only this one is better. Much, much better.
 
Andy Rausch is going to go places with his writing. He can take a story and characters and make you love some and despise others. I could see the town and the people in my mind when I read this book and that is how I love to read.
 
I highly recommend this book and anything else that Andy has written. You won’t be sorry that you did, I promise.