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by Theresa Snyder (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars (205)
Love character driven scifi? Join Jake and Arr on their adventures.
The Helavite War is book #1 of the Star Traveler Adventures

“The Helavite War takes me back to when I first read the early science fiction works of Heinlein, Asimov, etc. There is a sense of boldness, innocence and the essential goodness of mankind, wrapped up in a universe that is bigger than we know now and yet navigable by humans.” – JKMohr

“Characters stay true and are well developed, great scene description, emotionally engaging and the plot keeps you caught up.” Angie C.

Jake is a human mercenary looking for a quiet place to rest, when his Protect Dar-dolf attacks the last living Henu, Arr. Feeling responsible, Jake stays on to care for Arr, as the alien with deep blue cat eyes and unusual abilities recovers.

Jake takes on the role of teacher, mentor, father, and lost brother for his new alien friend. He and Arr share adventures dealing with the Hydra, a race of lizard-like creatures who kidnap members of other species to sell on the black market as slaves; battle the Narnon on Gligula where Tuldavian Swamp Lizards lay their traps just below the surface of the slime; and engage in numerous other missions while learning to appreciate each others rare abilities.

Ultimately, they must face their toughest foe, the Helavites, a species which has been preying on the weaker beings in the universe for generations. In the underground catacombs of these beetle-like creatures a mystery is solved and the foundation for the resurrection of an old world are laid.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CMJEN96
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Theresa Snyder
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 400 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 1 of 7 ‏ : ‎ Star Traveler Series
  • Best Sellers Rank: #31,878 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars (205)

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4.2 out of 5 stars
205 global ratings

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Customers find the book's story engaging, with one noting it moves at a decent pace. Moreover, they appreciate the character development, with one review highlighting the strong bond of friendship between the protagonists. Additionally, the book receives positive feedback for its readability, with one customer noting it's easy on technical jargon, and its content, with one review praising its excellent future-world descriptions. The writing style is well-received, with one customer noting the author's distinctive voice.
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13 customers mention story, 11 positive, 2 negative
Customers enjoy the story of the book, finding it interesting and well-paced, with one customer describing it as a well-written sci-fi adventure.
Theresa Snyder is a natural story-teller! The Helavite War by Theresa Snyder is a well-written sci-fi adventure story set in the distant future....Read more
Average story. I may have been more unique if it was not a story I have read from others authorsRead more
...Good writing, with good character development. The story was interesting. There was battle action interspersed with thoughtful interaction.Read more
...What a great story, I loved it from the first page. Just by change or was it fate? Jake, the mercenary, landed an Arr's planet Henu....Read more
11 customers mention readability, 10 positive, 1 negative
Customers find the book easy to read, with one customer noting it's light reading and another mentioning it's navigable by humans, while another appreciates that the technical jargon is kept to a minimum.
Good reading. Good writing, with good character development. The story was interesting....Read more
...That being said, I enjoyed it quite a lot! It is well worth the time to read.Read more
...series of very enjoyable episodes, which make it a fascinating and light reading that finds its strength in the characters....Read more
...The Helavite War is highly readable and with a rare and unsullied voice that draws you into the narrative....Read more
8 customers mention character development, 8 positive, 0 negative
Customers appreciate the character development in the book, with one mentioning the strong bond of friendship between the protagonists.
This is a very well thought out and refined book. Characters stay true and are well developed, great scene description, emotionally engaging and the...Read more
Good character development in this book. It's an easy read with action and suspense aplenty. Excited to read the next one.Read more
Good reading. Good writing, with good character development. The story was interesting....Read more
...In this almost fairy-tale setting we follow the adventures of the human Jake and the young Henu Arr, mercenaries with sound principles, who in the...Read more
8 customers mention content, 8 positive, 0 negative
Customers find the book's content engaging, with one review highlighting its excellent future-world descriptions and another noting its unique application of human sentiment.
A decent fantasy book by a very good author. It was just not what i expected....Read more
...The plot, scene-setting, and dialogue all work together to create a wonderful read....Read more
...Characters stay true and are well developed, great scene description, emotionally engaging and the plot keeps you caught up....Read more
This story had me so immersed that I lost track of time. As I smiled at good parts, cried at sad parts, and did a bit of both at the end of the story.Read more
8 customers mention writing style, 7 positive, 1 negative
Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, with one customer noting the author's distinctive voice, while another describes it as smooth and easy to read.
A decent fantasy book by a very good author. It was just not what i expected....Read more
Good reading. Good writing, with good character development. The story was interesting....Read more
...Snyder’s style of writing is very enjoyable, she moves the story along at a decent pace....Read more
...I love reading her style of writing and her books. I won't forget her again. Need to read the next book in the series.Read more

Top reviews from the United States

  • Mark Schultz
    5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this story!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018
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    I am very happy I read this story! It took me back to my early-teen years when I first discovered science fiction. I consumed book after book, reading Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein, and too many others to name here.
    Snyder’s style of writing is very enjoyable, she moves the story along at a decent pace. The plot, scene-setting, and dialogue all work together to create a wonderful read. Her descriptions of the characters are quite good, perhaps the best bit of her books. Jake and Arr come across as very real, even the dar-dolf brings a lot of color and humor into the story.
    Written in the classic style of space operas, I loved this book! I award 4.7 stars to "The Helavite War".
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  • Terry L
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2017
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    Good reading. Good writing, with good character development. The story was interesting. There was battle action interspersed with thoughtful interaction.
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  • JM
    3.0 out of 5 stars Just ok for me
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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    A decent fantasy book by a very good author. It was just not what i expected. Other reviewers really liked it but to me it was more like a daytime soap opera.
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  • Anakina
    5.0 out of 5 stars A long adventure in space
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2013
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    In this first novel in the "Star Traveler Series" Theresa Snyder sends us into a unspecified Star Wars style future, where mankind travels smoothly between a star system and the other in the galaxy, populated by numerous species of aliens, some very sociable and others a bit less. In this almost fairy-tale setting we follow the adventures of the human Jake and the young Henu Arr, mercenaries with sound principles, who in the course of several years are facing daring situations and dangerous enemies. But the real strength of the story is the fraternal relationship between the two protagonists. On the one hand there is Jake, used to a solitary life, who in one of his many trips encounters the young Henu, last survivor of his alien species, and takes him under his wing, as if he were a younger brother. The bound between the two is strong and more than once takes the reader to be moved while feeling the suffering of Arr, when he is separated from Jake.
    This type of space opera, suitable for an audience of any age, is different from the more film style one I'm used to. The story does not have a single thread, apart from the friendship of Arr and Jake, but unfolds through a series of very enjoyable episodes, which make it a fascinating and light reading that finds its strength in the characters.
    I recommend it to any reader who loves stories with good feelings and many spaceships.

    Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, author of Red Desert - Point of No Return
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  • Smiles1981
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy Done Right
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2013
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    I may read a sci-fi or fantasy book here and there but none in a long time had my attention like this book. Ms. Snyder weaves a thread of humanity into her characters, which make them likeable and real. She is easy on the technical jargon which runs rampant through most fantasy and sci-fi novels. One of my favorite things about young Arr, a main character, is the way his pain and devastation because of his incredible loss is well conveyed by the author. I especially liked how the two main characters, Jake and Arr, formed a strong bond of friendship. There was a consistency in the characters and they remained true to themselves throughout the book. Also, this wasn't a generic fantasy book which could have been written by anyone. The author has a distinctive voice and tells a wonderful story.

    This was a truly great read and I can't wait to read more from Ms. Snyder!
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  • OldSaltCityAce
    4.0 out of 5 stars Don't let the simple style fool you!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013
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    Don't let the simple writing style stop you from finishing this book. I found it a truly enjoyable story, very suitable for an early teen reader. That being said, I enjoyed it quite a lot! It is well worth the time to read.
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  • DSH
    2.0 out of 5 stars Very juvenile writing.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020
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    Not an enjoyable read due to the juvenile writing style. It would be ok if you were 12. Very predictable.
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  • Deep Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Touching the Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2013
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    Jake Harcourt is an intergalactic mercenary with no attachments other than his vicious pet dar-dolph. When the half bear/wolf attacks an alien on a ravaged planet, Jake finds that he is bonding with Arr the last of his species.
    I have never been a great fan of science fiction. Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke have from time to time tried to lure me along on one of their out-of-this-world excursions but the claustrophobic amount of technical prose they transported aboard their popular craft made me jump ship at first opportunity.
    Theresa Snyder takes you there and back again with a smooth easy voice that turns each page without effort. She reveals a unique application of human sentiment in her writing with images going beyond the words on the page...

    "It was always Nor's plan to return home, but Arr was so reluctant that Nor put the deed off until a later time in the hope that his younger brother's memories might fade. In a way, this trip to the forest was really in memory of Nor."

    This is Theresa Snyder's first novel and is not without faults, but it contains the most important elements essential to the success of any work. The Helavite War is highly readable and with a rare and unsullied voice that draws you into the narrative. For this logic alone I must sprinkle my handful of stars. I always love the feel as they all slip through my fingers and I look forward to reading "The Heirs of Henu" the next brilliant adventure in the Star Traveler series
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  • Max
    5.0 out of 5 stars A discover
    Reviewed in Italy on August 20, 2013
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    Ok, I have to admit that I had never come across any Theresa's book before reading this one.
    Guess what ? I found it amazing. I have always affirmed that there are some few people who are born to tell stories.
    Theresa is one of them. She leads you in colorful fantatic worlds far from ours, and you, neither for a moment wonder whether these are real or not. She transforms the unbelievable in believable, what is fantastic in real.
    I am going to get the other books to go on flying on the wings of fantasy.
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  • sally
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book
    Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2018
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    Great scifi. Without having to figure the tech. Characters are the engaging and the plot moves at a good pace. The story line is unique and i look forward the next book!!!
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  • G. O. Jones
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Mercenary and the Sole Survivor.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2017
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    The book is definitely written in a more classic master style, the story line is about a friendship and how it develops over time between a mercenary and the sole survivor of a planet wide attack. The pair find themselves traveling around doing mercenary work and we get small episodes of each place they visit. The characters are well defined and very likeable and the classic approach made a refreshing change to some of the more battle intense novels I have read recently. Well worth reading I hardly put it down after starting it.
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  • Liz
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Helavite War
    Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2015
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    The Helavite War is the first in a series of six young adult Sci-Fi novels, the Star Traveler Series, which starts with the destruction of the Henu at the hands of the Others. Arr, a child at the time, and his brother were the only survivors. When Arr's brother dies, he's left alone. The only surviving Henu.

    That is, until Jake and his dar-dolf arrive looking for a little peace and quiet.

    I loved how the relationship between Jake and Arr grows and takes shape. Both are honest, good men who each find something they need in the other. Both make mistakes, both learn and they become inseparable friends. It's an amazing buddy story like Buzz and Woody from Toy Story and Steve and Sarah in Jeffery M. Poole's The Prophecy. They are great companions first and foremost and I really felt the strain when they weren't together.

    This book also has plenty of action. As a mercenary, Jake takes on jobs for pay from routing invaders to babysitting industrial operations and recovering kidnapping victims. Each little adventure they take builds on the whole and gives us hints of the Helavites, who take what they want from planets and destroy everything in their way. We get to see different planets and peoples to get a good feel for the galaxy Snyder builds.

    If you're looking for some great space adventure, unique characters and to find out who loves the Raspberry Goo Chews more than anyone, strap in and take The Helavite War for a ride.
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  • Monty
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2019
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    There are a series of quick adventures and stories in this book all following the main characters and how they develop An easy read though fairly basic. Enjoyable particularly for a younger audience.
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