agree with cyto. i read the epilogues right when they came out, when i was about .... seventeen? and i honestly don't think i was mature enough to Get Them. not that you can't be seventeen and mature enough to get the epilogues, just that i personally wasn't. i haaated them.

i reread them a couple years ago and i was like hey wait. these actually.... aren't that bad? they're good even? maybe even peak? which i'm glad about. i'm glad that i was able to get to that point of being able to enjoy and love the epilogues for what they are. there are definitely still parts that i don't like (some of the handling of jane, especially in meat, is still stuff i don't like, and the way callie's gender is talked about still ticks me off) but overall, i really like them.

candy is my favorite, though. nuclear family suburbhorror YAY. i especially like the very subtle (maybe unintentional?) themes of youthlib in some scenes. i'm pretty sure i read them as candy->meat the first time, but the second time i read them as candy->meat->candy.