I like both of the series (mostly), especially the early books, all the way up to her discovery of BDSM in the Anita Black series - that book I didn't like much and the next few are a bit over the top, until the last one. I'm not sure you'd miss anything if you skipped over the series at that point and took up with the latest one. For the Meredith series, I suspect it's all a bit more tame (although, again, there are multiple partners and it's extra men, not women, and, as you mentioned, I think that turns off some).
With the Meredith series, I think the weirdness level gets up there when one has tentacles...
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