Ahh, Dawn was such a refreshing return for me to that calming, thoughtful group of books: 80s-Feminist-Sci-Fi. 
 Not at all preachy, this book looked at how human beings would react to a deeply personal alien "invasion", in which the aliens only seem to want what is in the humans' best interest... and their own. 
 It entirely skipped the early parts of these kinds of stories, the day-to-day pre-alien human existence, that can sometimes drag on and instead spent a little time introducing us to our main character after being "abducted". 
 The aliens themselves are extremely interesting and appropriately, well, alien. This book was genuinely disturbing at several points, so be warned. Personally, I can't wait to read the rest in this series, though.