Do y'all think there will ever be another Hunger Games or Harry Potter in terms of popularity?
I come across YA and adult series and books that I find pretty damn good but they're so obscure these days. Until I jumped heavily back into reading I didn't even know series like The Diviners or Ember in the Ashes or Scholomance etc etc existed. I think reading is on the down low among young people. I'm only in my mid 20s and the only people I know who read are some young women who read strictly romance novels like Coleen Hoover. Nobody in my family or friends reads. No younger people read. In fact some of my friends say their media attention span is so bad now they can't even watch a movie or TV show let alone read a book. I bought my sister Sunrise on The Reaping as a gift when it came out and she still hasn't even opened it despite being a huge HG fan as a kid. She tells me she just doesn't have the focus or time for a full novel.
Do y'all think we'll ever see another insanely popular YA series on the level of something like HP or HG or PJ? I think they also benefited from the fact that they came with the rise of the internet. But I just don't see reading being as popular among young people in that genre anymore.