I really enjoyed the epilogues when reading them, (omg candy john... candy john save me... and ult dirk ofc), and only really understood a lot of the cooler meta narrative stuff after. However, I don't feel as if they were bad on purpose because I never experienced them as bad? I lovedddd seeing the characters go through various issues, especially since i read it at a time when my own mental health was quite low.

But yeah the shit about candy!john having to realise that the people around him WEREN'T just fake when that's the assumption the reader was also lead to was amazingggg