Indeed, all of the side characters are compellingly written, with the tortured, torturing queen ultimately emerging as a deliciously complex villain who is ghastly, sure, but also vulnerable in subtle ways.
Though it’s slightly unrealistic (and a bit sad) that Twylla falls hard for the only two men who are close to her in age, they are so startlingly different that they make for good romance triangle fodder, and the prince and the lowly guard both push her to be more than she thought she was. Though this gives her a comfortable life, she has thereby become untouchable, with poison coursing through her skin that can kill anyone with whom she shares physical contact (or so she’s told) she’s therefore an important political focus for the populace-and also the queen’s pawn. Twylla is, however, released from that role and offered a different life in the kingdom if she can survive the process of becoming the Daunen Embodied, a child of a goddess whose returned presence could restore the faith of the flagging population. Twylla thought she would grow up to be a Sin Eater like her mother, who symbolically consumes the sins of the dead (by eating amounts of food that proportionately represent their sins) in order to free their souls.
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