Book Review: Killer Instinct By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Killer Instinct

(The Naturals #2)

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Published: November 4th 2014

Published By: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 1423168321

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.

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My Review:

* I was provided a physical ARC of this book by the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

I am 95% happy with the turn out of this book! Everything I was hoping for happened! Let's make a check list:

✓ The guy I was rooting for got the girl.

✓ Yet another mystery/serial killer rampage vanquished.

✓ The ending was awesome....(if I had the privilege of having the next book in my hands right at this moment....Pretty please? Hehe)

There was a little more character development for the secondary character's this time around. Since I read the first book in this series almost a year ago I did end up getting faces and personalities mixed up and don't even get me talking about who was what agent. The only one I had down was Sterling because she was introduced in this novel.

Cassie is still the same old Cassie. Until the last few chapter's she's involved in a love-triangle and I really wanted to violently talk some sense into her. When she finally chose a guy, I was ready to do the electric slide with the hokey pokey. The reason for all the enthusiasm is because I NEVER choose the guy the author decides to write the story about, so from there this book was a keeper.

If you read my review of book #1 you'll know which team I picked, so unless you want to spoil the book for yourself (and as much as I hate telling you NOT the read a review of mine) DON'T DO IT! Let me just say that it was totally unexpected and I LOVE Mrs. Barnes for it!

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