ant_lah 's review for:

Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.5
adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It's a good story, but something about it falls flat —  the heroism, the sacrifice, and the starkly differentiated levels of development of the different race/species are entirely in earnest. I'm not sure if it's complexity, irony, or something else that I'm missing.