Harry Potter was a smash hit about a boy discovering he’s a wizard and going to school in a magical world full of wonder and adventure. Twilight didn’t hit quite that high a note, but the story of a teenage girl who learns her classmate is a vampire and falls in love with him did quite well. The Hunger Games popularized the dystopian genre with a bow wielding teenager stepping up to survive death games, have angsty romances, and fight the power.
As far as I can tell, nothing has quite hit that same kind of high since and it may be awhile until the next truly big wave. But if it were up to you, what would the next big thing be about?
a secret l33t haxor school where the kids learn to hack realities source code to create all sorts of cool effects like conjuring fire, floating objects, altering someone’s memory, and protecting themselves from others who can do the same.
the main character will be someone born to a prominent(rich) family, but who was orphaned as a child, so they grew up with their aunt and uncle. the aunt and uncle know about this secret haxor school, and the people who can hack reality, but don’t tell the main character anything about it, hoping that they can prevent him from learning anything about it.
the main character finds out anyways, and is shipped off to the school, where he learns he’s actually practically royalty. everyone gives him preferencial treatment, except one teacher and all his favorite students, who do their best to make his life miserable.
Then the main character finds out that his parents, who he’d always been told died in an accident of some sort, were actually murdered by this really evil dude who uses the reality haxoring powers to terrorize the world in secret. then it turns out that this really evil dude has infiltrated the school to try and steal a powerful reality haxoring tool that the head master has hidden in the absolute most obvious place hidden behind riddles and puzzles easy enough for a child to get past them, and the only person who can possibly stop him is the main character.
right at the end, it turns out that the main character actually almost helped the villian succeed. the villian would never have been able to get the tool, and all the main character really had to do to make sure the villian wouldn’t get it was to do nothing not try and stop him in the first place. but it’s ok, for some reason the main character touching the bad guy melts him and he falls apart.