{"id":5910,"date":"2025-08-28T21:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:20:50","slug":"the-naturals-by-jennifer-lynn-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-naturals-by-jennifer-lynn-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>The Naturals<\/b> by Jennifer Lynn Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13597723-the-naturals\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1620015246l\/13597723._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13597723-the-naturals\">The Naturals<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/164187.Jennifer_Lynn_Barnes\">Jennifer Lynn Barnes<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/7869472966\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had checked out a crime\/detective novel only to find it was a fantasy novel &#8211; a teenage girl&#8217;s fantasy. A gorgeous teenage boy comes waltzing into a diner in Podunk, America to recruit the teen heroine to be a &#8220;natural&#8221; sleuth for the FBI in Washington working on serial killer cold cases and she accepts, because of course she did. As a retired FBI agent I found the whole setup beyond ludicrous. The author has done not one iota of research about the FBI&#8217;s jurisdiction or practices and clearly did not intend for the story to be even slightly plausible. It&#8217;s been over 20 years since I retired, and who knows what god-awful things Kash Patel has done to the FBI, but I&#8217;m quite sure it still isn&#8217;t sending teen heartthrobs around the country to recruit psychics for help solving a non-existent backlog of cold serial killer cases that the FBI has no jurisdiction over. Obviously I didn&#8217;t get very far in the book. And by the way, Ms. Barnes, the word you meant was incredulity, not incredulousness. You need to retake bonehead English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes My rating: 1 of 5 stars I thought I had checked out a crime\/detective novel only to find it was a fantasy novel &#8211; a teenage girl&#8217;s fantasy. 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