this is chockful and brimming to the seams with love with its history, pulling beautifully at my heartstrings. reading this was like falling into a storybook, and i loved how this especially played with the idea of purity and how even that can start to corrupt someone. there's a saying along the lines of you can never not worship, be it a god or otherwise; to desire purity is to be doomed to a life of always having dirty hands.
being in elysande's head while exploring aldith's new, dangerous world in this body she may find undesirable was beautifully haunting and scary, i loved it!!