I noticed that too. For about 5 years, there was a slew of YA movies/books on this same kind of theme:
Maze Runner (and sequels),
Hunger Games (and sequels),
Divergent (and sequels),
The Pretties/Uglies/Specials/etc (this was a book series they "talked" about making into a movie/series because it fit in so well will the previously mentioned shows)
To be frank, I'd put the Twilight series as part of this list. Not because of the "dystopia" aspect, but the mindset of the human character. Belle kind of acted like she was comatose most of the time with (teenaged) angst, and was choosing her most desirable choice between two monsters. You almost have to be reduced to that state of mind to think there is a "better" when dealing with dictatorial murderous governmental forces.
Yeah true. I’ve read it once, to see if it was as good as people said, because you see in 2012-2014 (Died in 2015 or 2016? Or 2017? Dunno anymore lol) Twilight was the big (s)hit of the moment. THE THING you have to read among many others popular stuff at this time frame, otherwise you were the looser of your own life and shouldn’t have been even born to set foots on this earth, lol.
Anyway, once I was very boring, depressed and sad in my life, days were gray and stressful with NOTHING exciting or joyful happening. Attention, it was not HELL but it was just « Meeeeh » boring. Anyway!
I’ve told myself between my days of chore, « Hey why not reading this book during the breaks to kill time? Generally, during breaks, I talk to no one’s, and no one talk to me, and all you can do in break is just go talking loudly to friends, or just sit down on a couch, and look in the voids very several long minutes until the end of the pause. So why shouldn’t I make a better use of my time other than just be during pause ? » Therefore, since Twilight is a very very LONG book, I thought it was perfect! + would kill time. I read it under the cover of spiritual intellectual pretense btw but obviously it was just a cover I made to myself for a good excuse to not die of boredom and dread…
So I’ve read and read it…The more dark it was, the more dark thoughts in my mind… And other dark fictions (anime) whom I’m shutting down the name for some personne to not got to the same rabbit hole I’ve got trough and the many problems it got me in a fandom on the internet.
And as I finish of writing this, just to say that fandom of absolutely everything that this world (not the
planet, I think there is a subtle difference between the « world » and the « planet » ) give birth to, not just fiction stuff, are the worst thing ever.
So yeah don’t read Twilight at any cost! Lol