Its been a while but I remember when I first read them I was like "oh these are good but definitely not for everyone so I'll advise caution to anyone I think might not like them" before *everything* happened

as for which I liked more I think I have to give the edge to candy. Meat very much tried to be no nonsense plot, the reveal of dirk as narrator was interesting, and I enjoyed the junerezi scene followed by the cliffhanger that hs2 picked up on, but I feel like candy was really able to dig into the characters and pull out bits I hadn't really grappled with or considered up to that point. Had more for me personally to grapple with, also the setting being more turbulent than the one in meat had me more interested.

All in all though the epilogues as a whole I think were good and turned me on to some characters I hadn't quite been seeing the appeal of until then.