A review by lauratector
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

This book is for the criminal mind obsessed … anyone from 12 to 100 will enjoy this book if they love Criminal Minds. 
The book's plot is enjoyable watching as Cassie explores her gifts and gets to know the other teenagers and their gifts as well. 
We are introduced to Cassie during her day-to-day life where she talks about never fitting in (cue all the teen angst you could ever need). We learn about her gifts in getting into other people's minds and seeing the world as they would. 
As well as the devastating loss of her mother's life. 
Cassie used to live with her mother. Traveling from town to town as a psychic and learned to read people for her mother to make money from never thinking it would ever be more than that. 
One day she enters her mother's dressing room to find her mother gone and the place covered in blood … signs point to her mother being dead but with no body being found in the days, weeks or years that follow Cassie is ready for some answers. 
When the FBI invites her to join a gifted program for the Naturals she takes the opportunity, hoping this might lead to more information on her mother and what happened in that dressing room. 

This book is fun and mysterious. Its a young adult novel so be ready for the teen angst and romance that ensures from having 5 teenagers in one house with a single person watching over them - you don’t hear much from him but apparently he’s always there … always watching. 
I enjoyed this book incredibly. The killer was a shock for the most part but in the best way where you can think back through the story and see the subtle hints through out. 
Cassie is very much a teenager who hasn’t felt like shes apart of the world the way every other teen is - think Bella from Twilight. 
Will definitely recommend this book to anyone who loved A Good Girls Guide to Murder and/or Truly Devious or really any YA murder mysery novels because this one has been added to my top three.