>>1406Ooo if you notice any differences please post it here! Considering the series already starts off with the tanned MC being enlarged + children working as prostitutes, I'm sure it may have been even less sanitized. But I would say it doesn't really seem woke and it doesn't feel like any of the issues are dealt with kiddy gloves on.
>>1410That's fair kek, I know I struggled to get through it but the MC actually having a backbone and the promise of m/m got me through it.. and now one of the gays has his own series.
>but I didn't feel like reading the sequelOh Nona there's been a third book now, so I'm sure you'd like that even less. But me too! I liked the first book a lot, in general chosen one stories where the MC is fucked up about it are great. But yeah it is basically Drarry, but I don't like the direction the series takes with Simon's issues in the next two books. Book one implies Simon's issues are different than how they're explored in book 2 +3, and they decide to do some random character pairings then too that I felt were unnecessary.
>>1411Dark Heir by CS Pacat was one I liked (by the author of Captive Prince) though the final book has yet to come out. I think "they both die at the end" got a m/m sequel but I can't attest to the quality of it (I also did not like the og book). TJ Klune has his werewolf series that some of my tumblr moots like ( I believe last year a new book came out focusing on one of the bg characters?) But yeah you're right for the most part i end up reading older m/m books because now they al have gendies or are written by self-hating fujos/fudans who feel the need to make it incredible realistic and sanitized.