Dawn

The good: very good, straightforward easy to read story. Excellent description of what it feels like to be a slave/pet, an inferior people (technologically and maybe also ethically), a “tolerated” different race, a woman. Very good anthropological POV of discovering a different society and civilization as an outsider, even if welcomed (but still an alien). Excellent description of the dilemma for collaborators with a benevolent occuppant (but still an invader): should we trade our violent, murdereous freedom for a better, but less free future?
The bad (therefore not 5/5): a TOO straightforward easy to read story. Meaning it only deals with the human MC POV and completely lacking any social depth for the aliens (no history, religion, beliefs, plots, different parties). It feels like Shogun without the intrigues and civil war, just with the love story and the adaptation to social rules.
Still, overall a very good book, I will start book 2 right away. This one reminded me strongly of Ender, but without the war, just the relentless training and the social ejection by his/here her peers.