I've got several books going and alternate.

I tend to fiction books for young adults.
Grownup books:
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings by Kenneth R. Ginsburg
Soup and Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time
The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey(Wool series, books 1 - 5, dystopian sci fi)
Kid books:
Wonder by R. J. Palacio (EXCELLENT realistic fiction book about bullying, target age is 5th grade, main character has facial cran

I don't read science fiction but I do ponder

About the future. Alas, there will be incredible changes that I'll never see.
Look around the room you are sitting in, none of it will have any meaning 50 or 100 years from now. Table lamps, computers - all gone!
The clothes on your body won't be made any more but nano computer-driven temperature control vestments will replace them (or, whatever has been invented at that time).
I'm so sorry I didn't question my parents and grandparents when I had the chance to hear how life was for them as children and young adults. I hate that history is locked in books and that the people who lived those times are no longer available

8? Really?

Do kids that young watch it??? I don't have kids but that seems young.
For me, it isn't that it's trite - there's plenty of that in films - but that there's an obsession by teenagers with it all. The whole vampire thing and its popularity mystifies me, but maybe it is suppose to. I don't fit the demographics.
I do know that the books have spawned a whole raft of fiction writers trying to appeal to the same audience. Older than Harry Potter readers but not yet adults.