A World of Hurt
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When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them?
A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia's highly-anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today bestselling thriller To Catch a Storm where an Iowa City police officer and a DEA informant must work together to hunt down the remains of a hidden drug empire.
Kara Johnson always knew she’d die young and violently. It didn’t matter who delivered the final blow, she would deserve it—her years spent running drugs and spreading violence would guarantee it. But death doesn’t always go as planned. When her girlfriend sacrifices herself to save Kara’s life, Kara is left grieving and adrift. She doesn’t know why she’s alive until the DEA shows up and offers her a choice: go to prison or turn informant to lure out the last of the drug trafficking ring that murdered her girlfriend.
Max Summerlin is the kind of cop who needs answers—he’s been shot twice in the last year while looking for them. Despite his family’s objections and his struggle with chronic pain, he accepts an invitation from the DEA task force eagerly. That is, until he realizes he’ll be babysitting reformed drug trafficker Kara Johnson as she goes undercover.
Max knows Kara is keeping secrets. Kara doesn’t trust anyone, let alone Max. But the cop and the criminal will have to find a way to work together fast, because they aren’t the only ones hunting down the remains of a drug empire. And the kingpin who lurks in the shadows will stop at nothing to win.
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2 primary booksIowa Mysteries
Iowa Mysteries is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Mindy Mejia.
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This is a sequel and I do not feel that it works very well as a standalone.
I did get a copy from the library of book one and that helped make the story more enjoyable but it really needed to be sold as a continuation.
I loved the characters and the plot though!
3.5 stars
Fast Paced Action Thriller Featuring Atypical Hero - Yet Set During "Real"-World Collapse. Straight up: This would have *easily* been a 5* book for me had it been set in literally any period of human history *other than* 2020 - 2022... unfortunately, where it as actually set. Kara is awesome as a non-straight (it is never made clear in *this* text exactly what her sexuality is, though it may have been clarified in the preceding book, To Catch A Storm, which I read 20 months and 300+ books ago) badass with a certain condition that Mejia works with well to show its uses and detriments. Max is excellent as the more by-the-book cop just trying to do his best to do his job and get back to his wife and son, particularly during the period the book is set in. Together (and separately), they're going to find themselves in some pretty cool to watch action sequences that would get most of us real dead, real fast in real life. But ultimately, that is exactly what you're coming into a book like this for - escapist action of a near cinematic quality, and other than the time period this is set in (which, to Mejia's both benefit and detriment, she *does* show all too realistically and all too well), this book *is* that very action first with solid backstory and drama kind of tale that is generally so pleasing to read.
So for those of you who can withstand a book set entirely within the COVID lockdown period... this is one of the best books I've seen written telling a story within that period. But for those of us who - for whatever reason - *don't* want to read a story set in that period... unfortunately you're going to miss out on a truly fun, kick ass book unless you can overcome that particular mental objection.
Very much recommended.
Originally posted at bookanon.com.
