Honestly, I just appreciate an author who completely ignores the 'bury your gays' trope and releases a bunch of short fiction after the end of her book trilogy with the sole intention of giving the queer characters a happy ending, and then embellishing it over and over again to really hammer the point home that it's totally possible (and satisfying in a narrative context) for LGBT+ characters to live happily ever after. More of this sort of thing, please, and less of the 'oh no, our queer characters need to suffer as, like, a metaphor, so we killed one of them'.

Also, super glad that the whole slavery thing was ironed out here as being a Bad Thing, because I did find the first two books to be a little fetishising of non-con in an uncritical way, which skeeved me out. Still think the first book in particular needed to address some of those elements more to keep the 'slavery is bad' message canon, but it's a relieving disclaimer.