Note to self: don’t play truth or dare when someone in the group can tell if people are lying. It was an interesting cast of characters.

There are a few other female teens and a couple of adult agents/mentors/teachers. There is Michael, sarcastic and good at reading emotions, which makes lying difficult. There is Dean, also a profiler, who keeps his distance, for which it turns out he has excellent reasons. Not perfect in any way, but also not milquetoast. Read on.Ĭassie is a great leading female character: strong and confident but realistic and conflicted. I was a satisfied reader and definitely recommend this title. It is also a great read-alike for Sherlock fans. This is a great read-alike for those fans. I don’t know about you, but true crime and serial killers are a huge draw at my library. It is chock full of information that we all seem interested in even when we wonder why we are. But The Naturals is a great read for fans of CSI, Criminal Minds, Psych, The Mentalist and more. I can’t watch the episodes about children or sexual violence, and I definitely watch it less as it has gotten more graphic. Totally irrelevant background information: I am a Criminal Minds junkie, in part because I love Dr. Cassie’s life is at stake but who can she trust? And what does it all have to do with her mother’s murder years ago?

No one in the program is who they seem to be and Cassie won’t know who to trust when a package arrives at the front door making it clear that the current case they are working is personal. Which is how she gets recruited into an FBI program that seeks to nurture these natural talents of various teens, including human lie detectors, empaths and more. She’s not psychic, just a natural born profiler. Within a few moments she can tell you more about a person than they probably even realize about themselves.

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

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