My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A very entertaining sci-fi/fantasy story. It all starts off in the city of London. We are introduced to an office worker named Doella. She looks human and acts human. She is also drop dead gorgeous! She is really a supernatural Godlike being who lives among us incognito. She is long-lived and knows of many times. Her race is known as the Varans. They are engineers and build civilizations and help steer evolution. The Varan project planets are Earth-like. Humans are their children to be guided. These project/colonies are scattered across the universe. The Varans can travel to them swiftly and can move within a protective bubble when needed.
The story quickly moves to Doella being abducted and then eloping with an escaped Varan prisoner from another world and dimension. They embark on a pilgrimage of adventure and we visit other humanoid worlds in various stages of evolution and decay. They are being pursued by other Varans who wish to bring them back to the homeworld and answer for wrongdoings etc.
The story becomes more colourful and mildly erotic as the capricious crusade progresses. One adventure turns into another as our super titan god people meet other super races. There are Humans developing in all types of strange society and another super-being known as Sark. He is a Hyclos. Before long, Doella has a selection of devoted male concubines that adore her as she does them. Some can control their jealousy while others can’t. Doella always seems to have a way of mollifying them as they can communicate feelings telepathically.
Dragons come into the story too. It is very entertaining and splendid science fiction with telepathy often used to communicate and mind melding to explain experiences. Some of the worlds are like fantasy landscapes with grand castles etc. It all makes for some splendid escapism. For me, Doella is an unflawed Goddess in Flawed Gods.
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