The Naturals: Buy (US Kindle Edition) Buy (US Hardcover) Buy (US Paperback) Buy (UK Kindle Edition) Buy (UK Paperback) Buy (CA Kindle Edition) Buy (CA Hardcover) Buy (CA Paperback) Buy (Worldwide Hardcover) Buy (Worldwide Paperback) It’s essential for any YA or crime bookshelf. If you can suspend your disbelief in regards to the premise, you’ll be rewarded above and beyond. I recommend The Naturals series to anyone and everyone if given the chance. This is exactly how a series should be: consistently high quality. And the serial killer case carries over into the series closer, Bad Blood, which is mind-blowing brilliant. It must’ve been a nightmare to research and organise, because it involves the Fibonacci sequence. Killer Instinct is definitely an improvement, and I was well and truly hooked.īut the series really shows its genius in Book 3, All In. But I gave the first book a chance, and it isn’t bad as I feared. Teens working for the FBI sounded more fantasy than contemporary. Upon hearing the premise for Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s YA crime series The Naturals, I was sceptical. (Nov.NOTE: I originally posted this at Speculative Chic.

It’s a stay-up-late-to-finish kind of book, and it doesn’t disappoint. Barnes shows every card at just the right moment, catching readers off-guard at the final reveal.

Cassie’s pursuit by an unknown serial killer keeps things tense, as do creepy narratives from the killer. Barnes is in her wheelhouse with this story of keenly powered teens and covert ops, and she provides an enticing inside look at the world of crime-solving through Cassie’s hyperaware eyes. Cassie immediately realizes that being a Natural may be more than she bargained for, and her fellow gifted teens take getting used to, including Michael, an emotional expert who seems fascinated with Cassie’s, and Dean, who just looks pissed off-mostly at her. After her mother’s gruesome abduction, and with her father overseas, Cassie is recruited for a special FBI program for teens like her to help solve cold cases. In an intense CSI-type thriller, Barnes (Nobody) lets readers inside the mind of 17-year-old Cassie Hobbes, a “Natural” profiler with the uncanny ability to piece together an individual’s motives, backgrounds, and patterns of behavior.

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