I read the first two in high school and really liked them. I think it was mostly because the main character is chubby, dark-skinned, and short-curly-haired and is fine with all of the above. And in a reverse of the standard fantasy heroine, she's a virgin who's under a ton of family and social pressure to sleep around, and I was like YES.

After she got with a dude I didn't care as much, though (even though I did like him) so I never got around to reading the later ones.

Of course, at the time I didn't yet register that Davy's name contained a slur, but IIRC the actual treatment of his culture wasn't *overly* bad (for the time)? I remember (vaguely) that it portrayed them as unfairly persecuted and making do, mostly.