Pub. Date: November 5, 2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Hardcover
304 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a
natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell
you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken
seriously. 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.
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.
Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a
knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under
her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at
arm’s length.
Soon, it becomes clear that no one
in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes,
danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. 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.
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I’m not someone who gravitates towards crime stories. I get
creeped out easily, and I have what some may call an overactive imagination. Let’s
just say it’s best when I’m not aware of the multitudes of ways people can be
murdered. Yet, the premise behind The
Naturals intrigued me. I found Cassie’s ‘natural’ approach to reading and profiling
people so much more interesting than the scientific approach we usually see. Surprisingly
for me, the girl who get’s creeped out, one of my favorite things about the
novel is when ‘You’ takes over the
narrative. Switching to a criminal perspective really upped the anti on how
drawn into the world of The Naturals I
became.
