I feel like a lot of modern YA is the unholy lovechild of Twilight and the Hunger Games, and I guess if dystopian romance is your thing that's probably amazing, but it's not mine.

I also feel like YA has become ever more insistent that every book has to have a romance, and I realize that this is a large part of a lot of teenagers' lives and doubtless they want to read about it, but at the same time there are some books that just don't need it. I'm still a bit bitter about the romance shoehorned into The Scorpio Races. Man-eating water horses were more than enough to sustain the book!