Review: Bait by Helen Mathey-Horn

Bait by Helen Mathey-Horn
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Time Travelling Telepaths

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 fixing things (it wasn’t explained what exactly they fixed, it was all a bit vague). He suggested that Lawran goes to train there 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 to this book 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 books about this Universe and the people in 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 come 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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