Hey I Didn't Want To Take Away From All These Good Additions But I'd Like To Point Out Another YA Dystopian

Hey I didn't want to take away from all these good additions but I'd like to point out another YA dystopian series where the government is actually bad (essentially I'm answering tanginerinefemme's challenge). The first book is called Legend (series simply named the Legend series), and it's written by Marie Lu (a poc women author)! Legend has a lot cliches in it including a love triangle, although it's not as centralised as other series like twilight. The romance of the story is very prevalent, but it adds to the book because the first mc comes from a poor background and the second mc comes from a rich one.

A basic synopsis of the book, the US has split into two countries and are at war. Day (first mc) is a criminal who goes against the corrupt Republic of America. He becomes the prime suspect when June's (second mc) brother is murdered, and she is sent to find and arrest him. I recently reread them and noticed that the two separate America's each represent an extreme of the current American system. The one that most of the story takes place in is centric to the military, and the other is centralized around capitalism. In general it tackles a lot of issues and has many underlying themes, and it's just a great series, I highly suggest it

not to be all “tw*light did nothing wrong” but misogyny honest to god killed the hunger games