The best part of reading them that young was that all the stuff I didn't understand whizzed over my head.

This! My brain kind of ignored over the creepy sexual stuff for years, because I didn't understand it.

(If decide you do want to try re-reading Darkover stuff, I think Stormqueen! (with exclamation point) holds up well - at least to the point that I was not going "oh jeez what" every couple minutes, like with many of the others.)