Le Guin doesn't pull any punches in this short novel that turns out to be a version of the environmentalist, anti-colonialist story of which there are many iterations of in media, but is also one of the better ones, with Le Guin's usual transparency of intention and thoughtfulness behind it. She doesn't hold back or confuse the message one bit. I thought the PoV being split between 3 characters and the length of the book makes them a little one-note and doesn't let them be more than what they represent (including one of the most hateable, loathsome characters I've read) but they do the job fine.