I enjoyed it a lot. While I would have liked to get to know the alien culture (and its language!) even better, I was given a lot of context. Also, the story is told as seen by an alien, a nice human anthropologist, and a horrible, vicious, self-righteous human soldier, which was well done.
Great little novel by my favorite girl Ursula. Pretty much way ahead of its time by means of archetypes and postcolonial narration.