I tend to love all of Michael Dalton's work, but while this is still good I'm not sure it rises to the same level as his other series, at least for me.
Specifically, the setting is a bit...odd to me. To be fair, sci-fi settings are always hard, because any sort of realism likely means that different races would require profoundly different environments, breathe different atmospheres, eat different food, have radically different cultures, speak different languages, etc., which precludes a ton of interesting plots. So there's always the temptation to go the Star Trek route where "aliens" are just humans in some heavy makeup, and that's fine; now you can have Klingons being jerks at fancy dinner parties and Kirk sleeping with green skinned alien babes, cool.
But even by those standards, this goes a bit far. Humans and "goblins" are so compatible they can breathe same same air and eat the same food, and for poorly explained reasons the goblin government apparently adopted the human language to try and foster trade with humans to the point that road signs on the goblin home planet are now mostly in the human language. At which point the idea that human males and goblin females are overwhelmingly obsessively sexually interested in each other almost seems reasonable because it's barely even in the top 5 least plausible things about the entire setting.
And speaking of that obsessive sexual interest, while it makes for an interesting (and somewhat creepy) plot point, it does undermine any real scope for romance. An enemies-to-lovers arc can be extremely engaging, but it's made fairly explicit here that some bizarre quirk of evolution is forcing the female goblins to love and trust the protagonist (and vice versa), which rather undermines any emotional impact it might have.
This is still, as it says on the tin, a pleasant slice of life story about base building in a post-apocalyptic setting, and I appreciate the author went to the trouble to build up an interesting and unique setting. It's short, it's easy to read, give it a shot; there's nothing to dislike really. But for me at least, the neutering of any romance does stop this book being anything more than just "pleasant".