jennifer lynn barnes the naturals series

There's this show I love called Criminal Minds. The necessary suspension of disbelief from the reader's part is required in order to swallow the fact that a bunch of utterly incompetent, petty teenagers are capable of looking beyond their egotistical, self-centered noses.

It takes a great deal of suspension of disbelief to read this book and I'm not talking about the preposterousness of the idea that children-teenagers, can be FBI criminal investigators. This book is Criminal Minds fanfiction, for the under-15 crowd. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head-and under her skin. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people.

Jennifer lynn barnes the naturals series