My pet peeve about this series is that it's often lumped with other young adult series that were adapted into movies around the same time, cough, Twilight and Harry Potter. It doesn't help that the last book is split into two films, just like them.

To me, THG is different, it is much more mature and has much more thought-provoking factors. It is speculative fiction, a dystopian world, which is one of my favorite genres. As a plus point, it manages to tell stories from a teenager's point of view w...