Some parts are suspenseful and creepy, but there's a lot of information that pops up out of the blue, leaving readers wondering if they missed something. The Naturals is trying too hard to be a teen version of Silence of the Lambs. However, she doesn't convey how the FBI really works and that being a criminal profiler takes more than just reading books at the library and checking people out at the mall. It's predictable and full of cliches (a love triangle, insta-love, missing parents) and has unlikable characters.īarnes seems to have done some research into the mind of a serial killer. Readers may suspend disbelief for the sake of pure entertainment, but the novel's all over the place. At one point, Cassie wonders if the FBI even knows the 'Naturals' program exists, except for the two agents who recruited her. Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including The Inheritance Games trilogy, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood and the e-novella, Twelve. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals tags: sloane, statistics 81 likes Like You feel stupid. 'There are fourteen varieties of hugs,' she said.

The big one: It's hard to accept the premise that the FBI would hire a bunch of kids (who aren't even attending high school) to solve crimes, especially ones involving serial killers. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 45,244 ratings, 4.20 average rating, 5,444 reviews Open Preview The Naturals Quotes Showing 1-14 of 14 Sloane slipped an arm around my waist.

The concept behind THE NATURALS is kind of interesting, but it doesn't work for various reasons.

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