Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance.
But when victims of a brutal new serial killer start turning up, the Naturals are pulled into an active case that strikes too close to home: the killer is a perfect copycat of Dean’s incarcerated father—a man he’d do anything to forget. Forced deeper into a murderer’s psyche than ever before, will the Naturals be able to outsmart the enigmatic killer’s brutal mind games before this copycat twists them into his web for good?
With her trademark wit, brilliant plotting, and twists that no one will see coming, Jennifer Lynn Barnes will keep readers on the edge of their seats (and looking over their shoulders) as they race through the pages of this thrilling novel.
Review:
I’m not going to be done with this author for a while….I ‘m super into this series. I started the book after this one already. But, at least I’m almost caught up on my reviews. Almost. This book did some re-capping that I found a little repetitive. The other series didn’t do this so much, but maybe the author learned by the next series. Book 1 had more of a CSI/ X-Men vibe. This Book 2 had a solid Silence of the Lambs feel. They interviewed a serial killer in prison, who was messing with them the whole time.
There’s new characters, a terrifying abduction, more love triangle madness, and lots of profiling. You get to know little bit more about the side characters, but nowhere close to enough. There’s still so much more I want to learn (and I’m in the first half of the next book). But the stakes definitely seem higher. I’m not sure I was into this case as I was into the first case of book 1, but was definitely into the suspense/high action of the second half of the book. The second half of this book is crazy.
There’s escapes to college campuses, classes on murder, viewings of killer interviews, and just so much to learn about the psychology of serial killers, which I find fascinating! These books are just made for me. Not much happens with Cassie’s mother’s case, but not every book can do that. Some books have to focus on the other character’s crazy families too!
You get to learn a little bit more about the adults in the kids’ lives too. And I found them just as interesting. Again, I want to watch this tv show. Why has no one picked this up??? I can’t wait until I have my time at the end of the day to just relax and read more of this. These are the kind of YA books you can’t wait to get back to. They are addicting, full of suspense and hard to fall asleep at night while you are reading them. This second book gets a 9/10. I can’t wait to see where book 3 goes.
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