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by Helen Mathey-Horn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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What do you do when you come from a family of telepathic warriors but you lack the telepathic part? Lawren finds a place in a group of off world agents who attempt to 'correct' history, but it turns out although she isn't telepathic, she has charisma in abundance that makes it impossible for her to blend into other cultures. So instead of field work, she is currently in what she considers a dead end job of teaching new recruits hand-to-hand combat, until someone has a suggestion: go into a violent culture that her bosses haven't had any success at infiltrating as bait to lure out one or possibly two killers.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DNG1CK9
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 10, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1957 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 341 pages

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I am a retired mathematics and science teacher living in Tulsa with my husband, dog, and 2 cats. I've had the itch to put words on paper since one summer vacation when my mother challenged me to do so. I hope others enjoy the stories.

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Jeanne Richardson

Thriller

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021

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This is the 1st book I've read written by Helen Mathey-Horn; she has done a great job at writing a good book; I can’t wait to read more of her books.

The story line caught my attention at the very beginning and kept me interested throughout the entire book.

I received a free copy of this book via booksprout and I’m voluntarily leaving a review.

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D. W. Peach

A woman goes undercover in a male-dominated world

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2019

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Tired of her training position at CONTROL, Lawren takes the opportunity to work undercover as “bait” for a villain on the male-dominated planet Welstar. It’s a perilous place where drugs are rampant and used to kidnap beautiful women and turn them into sex-slaves. It’s not long before she’s targeted and thrust into danger. Benji is that male lead, and Mathey does a good job of keeping the reader guessing as to whether he’s a good guy or bad guy.

For the most part, the characters seemed authentic to me. Lawren is a strong-willed protagonist despite having to rely frequently on men for protection and rescue. I couldn’t’ quite believe that CONTROL would send her to Welstar without knowing who her target was. The plot choice added to the suspense, but it didn’t make much sense overall. My only other challenge was the plausibility of a romantic relationship with someone who used and abused countless women. The story supports this outcome, but I had a hard time buying it.

The plot moves quickly and has plenty of action as Lawren encounters one dangerous situation after another, some the result of her own gullible choices. Some of the elements that come together in the end could have used more forecasting/development to avoid confusion: the nature of Lawren’s power, the use of time travel, and CONTROL’s agenda. Vivid worldbuilding, excellent dialog, and quality writing overall.

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Jeanette

Thrilling sci-fi time-slip with romantic undertow

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018

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Bait by Helen Mathey-Horn was a gripping and enjoyable read. A sci-fi time slip set on another planet and with plenty of action, larger-than-characters, a few twists and turns and romantic elements.

Lawran is born into a strong telepathic family but she doesn't have the gift. She doesn't fit in at home, so joins CONTROL a temporal secret agency that goes back in time to eliminate threats to the future. Her first proper field mission (a few thousand years in the past) is to act as bait or a lure to one or two strongly criminal elements on the desert planet of Welstar, a planet funded by the illegal drug trade, where drug-lords kill with impunity and woman are objectified to the point of being 'bagged' and literally stuffed. Will Lawran even survive a day in this dangerous place, and who is Benji and how far can she trust him?

The story is fast-paced, with strong world-building and engaging characters. Lawran, as a weapons trainer and Tel, is dangerous yet vulnerable. Benji is by turns infuriating and charming, protective and manipulative, and decidedly cold-blooded. Other characters such as Sari, Lee, Jawel and Cumid and numerous secondary characters are lesser stars to these two bright luminaries. And it is the chemistry between Lawran and Benji that energises the plot - a cat and mouse game between Lawran and Benji, between the two major drug-lords, and between Lee (who is absent for most of the story) and his targets.

I enjoyed the interaction and the suspense, as Lawren finds herself in one tight spot after another, and the sizzling repartee between Lawren and Benji. The story builds to an epic showdown with lots of explosions and a high body count. If I had any quibbles, it would be that Welstar is so totally male-dominated (we really only meet one named female character from the planet (who isn’t stuffed)) and <spoiler> despite tragic backstories bad boys rarely reform for love, though Mathey-Horn does make it believable and the bad boy repentant to some extent </spoiler>. The story raises issues of diversity and ethnic cleansing but brushes over the ethics of going back in time for mass killings to save the future (in some unspecified way). Nevertheless, I found it an enjoyable, hard-to put down read.

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Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

The task will quite complicate to her when her feelings interlinked with the duty to be done

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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My rating 4.8
The book "Bait" by Helen Mathey-Horn is an excellent science fiction novel that leads us into the world of the future dominated by the telepathic powerful warriors. Girl Lawren who was born to a family of a telepathic warrior, unfortunately, there is not one of the powers that possess her parents. But because of her parents, at least Lawren's thoughts have been admitted to a special warrior organization CONTROL. Though she is a cold weapon fighter, and in physical disciplines she is excellent, she is considered dull because she has no telepathic power. To her surprise soon gets her first job in which she must be a bait to destroy the criminal organization on the planet Welstar. But although he is not aware, this task will change her whole life. She will find in the world intertwined intrigues, lies and deceptions. The task will quite complicate to her when her feelings interlinked with the duty to be done. I would recommend the book to all lovers of science fiction because the writer brings us into the world in which the reader can easily experience in his imagination. I believe this book is the beginning of a series I would love to read.

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Time Travelling Telepaths

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2020

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I would probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

I will be honest, I probably wouldn’t have downloaded this book if it wasn’t free. However, I did enjoy it, I just didn’t feel very connected to it. It felt a bit too cerebral to me, with not enough emotions felt by the characters until quite late in the book.

Lawran is a descendant of telepathic warriors, kings and queens. She is one of the only people in her line without any kind of ‘dreaming’ skill (their term for telepathic gifts). Her grandfather’s friend works for a group called CONTROL who travel along the timeline fixed things (it wasn’t explained what exactly they fixed, it was all a bit vague). He suggested that Lawran goes to train their and become an agent. She doesn’t do great at the undercover work so he decides to send her into a situation as bait without any real knowledge so she can act as innocent as possible whilst he does all the hard work.

I didn’t realise until quite a way in that a lot of things about the backstory of this book were probably included in previous books. It doesn’t make clear in the blurb or intro that there are other book about this world and the people on it. Maybe all the missing explanations were included in those books, but it still felt that the author could have explained just a little bit more for those readers who came new to the books.

I think a lot of the missing information meant that I didn’t get a lot of the book. It made it harder to understand the characters and their motives. It certainly made it hard to understand Lawran and her behaviour which felt a bit weak at times for a warrior.

However, for all the missing information and connection with the characters the world building was excellent and the plot was interesting. I probably wouldn’t read another book in this series because I prefer to have more emotional content in my sci-fi but other people may prefer a more cerebral approach to the genre and therefore would find this more entertaining.

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