Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been reading Sci Fi since age 10 - call it 59 years.There have always been strong women authors including Le Guin, Norton and McCaffrey. In the last 20 years or so, women have made major inroads into the genre. Connie Willis, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, writers of serious science fiction with strong female characters, have garnered Hugo and Nebula awards for their work. However I can only categorize Becky Chambers' work as the Sci Fi equivalent of a chick flick. What seemed to start as a good space opera soon devolved into a touchy feely fest. I shook off the physical love affair between a human and an alien species as amateur (I'm not sure how any serious Sci Fi reader could buy this), but when one of the female characters started having feelings for a lizard alien, I moved on to a better book. I am perplexed as to how this book has garnered most of the awards it has been awarded. I would certainly hate to think that she is merely riding the women's movement of recent years.