Bad Blood

#16 in Crime & mystery

Bad Blood

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

First published 2016Young adult

8.28.2 / 10
Score out of 10196 ratingsConfidence 57%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#16 of 200 in Crime & mystery ahead of 92% of the category
384
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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Our view

“Bad Blood” gives “The Naturals” a satisfying finish, at last answering the question the series began with: what happened to Cassie’s mother. Some readers praise the pace and the way the long investigation is wrapped up, though the conspiracy of killers strikes some as too far-fetched by the end and one culprit as easy to spot. As the fourth and last volume, it belongs to those who have followed the team from the first book.

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About the book

When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful -- and dangerous -- than anything the Naturals have faced so far. As Cassie and the team work to uncover the secrets of a group that has been killing in secret for generations, they find themselves racing a ticking clock. New victims. New betrayals. New secrets. When the bodies begin piling up, it soon becomes apparent that this time, the Naturals aren't just hunting serial killers. They're being hunted.

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Reading order · The Naturals

Full order & progress →
Score per volume4 volumes on a timeline, 2013 to 2016 · Best-rated volume: Bad Blood
  1. The Naturals
    The Naturals2013 · 318 ratingsStart here
    7.97.9 / 10
  2. Killer Instinct
    Killer Instinct2014 · 202 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  3. All In
    All In2015 · 167 ratings
    8.18.1 / 10
  4. Bad Blood
    Bad Blood2016 · 196 ratingsThis book
    8.28.2 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.5 across 196 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 8.2 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.97 4%
Hardcover8.5189 96%

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What age is Bad Blood for?

Bad Blood sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 384 pages — shorter than 62% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.

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