YMMV / The Reluctant King

• Values Dissonance: There are things in the books which are less than savory to many readers since the 60s/70s. Among them: referring to the desert people as "savage" with a rather stereotypical appearance/way of life, the only gay character being not just a rapist but it seems also conflated with a pedophile (as both victims were described as "young") along with negative references to "his kind", the victim blaming of a woman who suffers domestic abuse and sexual harassment perceived as a compliment to the recipient. They might be deliberate except unlike other things (honor culture) no one in the books criticizes these things nor are they portrayed as wrong in other ways.