My brain or heart say "YES!"

Stories featuring first contact, meeting of cultures, language barrier

Stories featuring Lyra

These stories are disagreeable in some fundamental way. Mary Sue's, bad spelling, bad pacing, boring, lack of conflict, or offensive.

Enjoyable without the "Fun" part

I've heard about your story. I'm in the process of reading it.

Not necessarily all gun battles and blood, but definitely more than people sitting in a room and talking. Also, I like your story.

The events of your story play out brilliantly. Your story naturally progresses to phenomenal events. Word choice: brilliant. Characters: charismatic and believable. Your gimmicks and devices: unique. I LOVE your story.

Not necessarily a comedy, but still humorous. Also, I like your story.

You have good or interesting wordplay, plot points, worldbuilding,

Exelent begining, but then something got off track. Sagging middles, dropped subplots, characters become mary sues, story became overly complicated, characters don't grow, etc.