I mildly enjoyed reading Red Queen, but I definitely don't think it deserved to win an award. I'm honestly shocked by how many people seemed to enjoy it. 
 It's not that it's a terrible book or anything; the writing is good and the characters weren't overly annoying. It's possible that other reviewers just have a higher tolerance for cliches than I do, but for me this book was way too similar to other popular YA fantasy/dystopia series. (The plot, relationships, and setting seem like a bizarre mashup of Divergent, The Selection, The Hunger Games, and Shadow and Bone.) I'm disappointed, I really wanted Red Queen to live up to the hype and I found the red vs. silver blood concept intriguing. Unfortunately, the book itself felt too formulaic. The corrupt government and elite class, the underground resistance movement, the "chosen one" to start the revolution, the love triangle.... I'm not saying there aren't fantastic books out there that have had all of these elements. But there's a certain meticulousness and originality that truly great books have in their plot, characterization, world-building, etc. that was lacking in Red Queen.