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I enjoy dystopian YA as pure escapism (though oddly I didn't really enjoy The Hunger Games) but I don't think it's exactly reinventing the wheel, in the main. I think there's a difference between the kind of dystopian/utopian fiction that young people/anybody should read because there's something to learn from it (1984, Brave New World, We, Fahrenheit 451) and the sort of thing that's become popular post-Hunger Games. I don't think there's anything wrong with reading it, regardless of age, but I do think there can be a tendency among some people to overstate the quality of young adult literature - there are a few real gems, but most of it is just pure entertainment and not particularly well written. I hope that makes sense!
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