*Spoilers* Contiunity 问题 About TMI and TID

I read TID originally abut a 月 或者 so before Clockwork Princess came out without knowing at all that there was a related series. I saw the Clockwork Prince cover in a bookstore and got interested. After 阅读 them I had to have more, tears, laughs, and tension? YES PLEASE. Anyways I started 阅读 City of 识骨寻踪 excitedly because I couldn't wait to see the urban 幻想 take on this world. But I immediately found that continuity problems bogged me down. I.e. women only just started getting "trained as a matter of course", and drinking from the mortal cup only works on children. There are other smaller inconsistencies that are 更多 easily overlooked as things that can be changed in 150 years but those two seem like pretty major historical facts that are wrong 或者 at least misunderstood. I keep stopping after becoming frustrated. Did anyone else have this issue? Is there some great reconciliation later since I know now TMI started before and finished being released after TID? Am I just being picky and crazy? I 爱情 the stories I just have a detail oriented brain.