I enjoyed this book, way more than I thought I would!! I have a habit of reading reviews while in the middle of a book, and I got a little nervous about Red Queen because of that, but I really enjoyed this book. 
 It starts off a bit slow, but since finishing & thinking about it, it had to. Her life in the Stilts is a bit slow, but it's who Mare is. She's scrappy and surrounded by family and nervous about the war and those aren't really things you can set up slowly. I enjoyed how deep into Mare Barrow's life we get to look, both as a red and as a silver. 
 I'm not going to get too far into her life as a silver because no spoilers, but it felt very reminiscent of the time spend in class/the common rooms/etc at Hogwarts, giving little details about how Mare lives and I loved that. I know that isn't everyone's favorite, but it was mine, so the book worked well for me there. 
 I was also thrown off & really happy about how much of the plot we got to see in this book. Knowing that there's a sequel I thought it would follow the usual YA dystopian formula, where you get the smallest bit in the first book and the world keeps expanding in later books, but it wasn't like that at all. There were at least 4 events that took place that I thought for sure were not going to happen yet, that I thought you'd have to wait for. 
 Even the excessively large love triangle (I mean there were 4 players: love quadrilateral?) was done in a way that was reasonable. I can appreciate a well done love triangle and while this one wasn't perfect, it felt very human. It helped that Mare treated one of her boys like a younger brother she had to save, kind of removing him from the love shape. And the forbidden love aspect of the love triangle feels more plausible when two of the three are forcibly engaged to different people. 
 Mare acted a little dumb sometimes, but her actions always made sense with who she was & where she came from. She was very human, and understandable, and pretty likable. Honestly, my main complaint was with her name: I couldn't tell if you were supposed to pronounce it like a female horse (mahr) or with an accented e or like marr. That could have just been me overthinking it though. 
 Good book. Excited for the sequel.