This was a fun read.  Not your utopian view of the universe where all advanced races work together but the opposite, where how to serve your fellow beings is a cook book.  Yeah, there is a lot of interspecies barbequeing going on but they do have an interesting FTL drive and medical technology.  There is also very little description going on.  Just the plot.  I like that.  There are three more books in the same universe and I will have to try them.

Dave K