You are back! Listening to the second episode of the eighth season of YA, We Read It! You were enthralled with Meggie and Laura's big dive into adult literature and you just had to see what happened next, didn't you? Enter Hidden Bodies, Caroline Kepnes second book in the You series! Joe says bye-bye New York as he ventures to LA, vowing to kill the girl who screwed him over, yeesh. Luckily for Joe (and the girl), his murder-plans are thwarted when he meets Love Quinn who he quickly falls in lov...
Mar 08, 2023•58 min
There you are. You. You're listening to this podcast, and you can't help but wonder: What's this? A twist in the standard YA, We Read It! source material? Could it be? Why yes, dear listeners, we're here to tell you that Laura and Meggie are experimenting a little for their 8th season all in the name of love and most importantly: all for YOU (literally!) Caroline Kepnes' famed ADULT series-turned-Netflix-show You revolves around Joe Goldberg, a hopeless romantic and even hopeless-lier serial kil...
Mar 01, 2023•56 min•Ep. 1
Back in the third season of YA, We Read It! Meggie and Laura read through the Private Series and today they are revisting those books with none other than the author Kate Brian herself! Except (and this really shocked us) Kate Brian was just a pen name for Kieran Scott the whole time. And she wrote many many MANY YA books as Kate Brian in the 2000s. Tune in as we dive in deep to Kieran's prolific career writing some of our favorite books and what she's been up to since! You can keep up with Kier...
Feb 22, 2023•38 min
We ran through The Maze, survived The Scorch, finally found safety (and even got some prequel action) and the time has yet again come for Meggie and Laura to passionately put to rest their final thoughts of The Maze Runner in its entirety. Was Teresa actually evil? Was Thomas a worthy protagonist? What was Brenda's motivation (and HOW OLD WAS SHE)? What did we love? And what did we want more of? All of this and more on this week's episode! Plus, we're going somewhere even YOU didn't think we wou...
Feb 08, 2023•41 min•Ep. 6
This week on YA, We Read It! Laura and Meggie are joined by Arthur Howell (creator of 2 Cents Critic blog & podcast) for a lovely stroll into the fifth Maze Runner book. Following the story of how the maze got made, we focus on Thomas, our protagonist once again, and his life under Wicked's roof from early childhood to his teens. Teresa and him become fast friends and meet the other Gladers over the years ultimately until the maze is completed and they fully realize how bad Wicked actually i...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 5
You might be thinking The Kill Order would refer to a particular ranking of who needs to die and when, but after reading this book we can assure you it's not that! This week Meggie and Laura are joined by their dear friend Nate Todd in this very special episode of reading James Dashner's prequel. Long before the maze trials, Solar Flares ravaged the Earth and threatened humanity as we know it. And through a few bad calls by the government The Flare was unleashed on what little survivors were lef...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 3
In a world where the only cure is Death... Kidding, we'll be honest the title of this book doesn't really make sense, because there is minimal death and absolutely 0 curing from The Flare but we LOVE the tenacity here! That's right, Laura and Meggie sit down and mic up to talk about the action-packed conclusion to the Maze Runner trilogy. It's Thomas, Newt, and Minho vs. WICKED as the gang escapes to Denver (interesting!). Can Thomas be our golden boy who saves the world? Is he finally going to ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 3
Aw babe, is it hot in here or did you just get dropped off in a deserted wasteland that's 1000 degrees? For our surviving Gladers, it's the latter. After their staged rescue from the Maze, we discover that the boys are a part of a much bigger test to find a cure for a horrible disease that's destroying humanity. The next trial for them is for them to march 100 miles through the Scorch and make it to the "safe haven," which proves to have many more obstacles than they ever could have imagined: we...
Jan 11, 2023•58 min•Ep. 3
Alright shuckfaces and slintheads, listen up: Season 7 starts now! Your resident Keepers Laura & Meggie are racing through James Dashner's The Maze Runner trilogy and no one can stop them! This 2009 YA novel tells the story of Thomas who wakes up with no memories in a teen-boys-only society, The Glade, that's surrounded by a massive maze that no one can solve. No one remembers how they got there, where they came from, or even how to get out -- all they know is that when a girl finally shows ...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1
Hey, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares meet Meggie & Laura's YA Podcast, we think you'll like it here. That's right listeners, ahead of what's sure to be a kickass 7th season, your hosts decided to attempt to warm their cold-grinch hearts with a SPECIAL episode by reading the Christmas-YA book turned Christmas-YA Netflix TV Show: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Resident teenage-scrooge Dash gets catapulted into a mini challenge after finding a red not...
Dec 21, 2022•47 min
Gather round all ye time travelers for a very special episode of YA, We Read It!!! Meggie and Laura read "Find Me in the Time Before" (#4 in the Edge of Yesterday Series), a technological ride across century lines as Charley Morton ventures back to 1700s France to rescue an old friend and meet a famed historical figure along the way. As an added BONUS, we also sit down with Robin Stevens Payes, author of the Edge of Yesterday series to talk all things time travel, all things Edge of Yesterday, a...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Dear Sweet Listeners, we're really happy you joined us this season! And while we dove deep into the books as we read them week by week, the truth is we still have a LOT to discuss. Does Jenny Han's almost decade-old book trilogy stand-up to the test of time? We'd say yes — it hits us with waves of nostalgia, cuteness, romance and fun. But outside of that there's even more to unfold: the characters we love, do Lara Jean and Peter make it after college? What happens to everyone else? And also, wha...
Nov 23, 2022•40 min
Dear Sweet Listeners, just as quickly as it seems this season started it's already time to finish it up with the final installment of To All the Boys. The book jumps forward and it's now Lara Jean's senior year. Her and Peter are still together and even more lovey-dovey and while all on the surface is great, the reality that college is just a few months away is starting to set in. Lara Jean's mom always said not to go to college with a boyfriend, but does that still apply when you're dating Pete...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Dear Sweet Listeners, it's time for the second installment of To All the Boys and we can't wait to talk about it with you. First things first: Lara Jean and Peter are back on! And for real this time. But all isn't easy-breezy since Peter's ex Gen is still clinging to Peter as much as she can, and Peter isn't exactly setting a boundary (yikes!). What's more is that another suitor, the cute and confident John Ambrose McClaren, responds to Lara Jean's long lost love letter (uh oh!). With her and Pe...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Dear Sweet Listeners, we love you, we really love you and we want to humbly welcome you to our 6th season where we are reading Jenny Han's To All the Boys Trilogy. Lara Jean, our protagonist is your typical teen who loves to bake and fly under the radar. When someone sends out the 5 love letters she wrote throughout her youth to commemorate her crushes, things quickly change. Now her older sister's ex is talking about his long lost feelings for her and Lara Jean quickly jumps into a fake relatio...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Dear Sweet Listener, the time has come for Laura and Meggie to once again sit down and live out their final thoughts and feelings as the sun sets on their fifth season. The Vampire Diaries went through 3 different writers, spanned decades in its publication and most notably inspired the hit CW show. Tune in as your hosts drink some wine, cicadas boom in the background, and unwind with the farewell to YA, We Read It's first venture into the vampire world. Plus, where we're going for our 6th seaso...
Aug 24, 2022•46 min
IT'S THE BIG FINALE! We left off in book 12 with so many questions and pieces that needed to be wrapped up and instead, we're taken in a completely different direction. And the only way to truly find out what's in store? Is to listen to Meggie and Laura dive deep into it and discuss the ins and outs of the last book in the series. Will Elena finally live happily ever after? Will everyone else? Get ready, because we sure weren't!
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Okay book 12 out of 13 lets POP OFF. Laura and Meggie are dying to discuss the tea! What's the tea? Stefan is dead, Elena is mourning but still attracted to Damon. Meredith has been forced into becoming a vampire but is keeping it secret. Bonnie is dealing with Zander being sus AF. And there's a whole new vampire on the loose while the gang is still trying to defeat Jack and all the fake synthetic vampires.
Aug 10, 2022•58 min
The final trilogy in the Vampire Diaries series is ON! Meggie & Laura are loving the new writer's sweet hashtags that line the chapters so they can stay in touch with other readers on Twitter circa 2013 (we love the world wide web!). We're picking up 4 years after the last book ended and all has been relatively peaceful since we said RIP to vampire daddy Klaus. Everyone's in relationships and enjoying young adulthood, until OG vampire Solomon (who is an absolute icon) comes into the picture ...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 2 min
The Hunters trilogy is coming to a lukewarm close as unfortunately the quest to obliterate Klaus is overshadowed by Elena's Guardian transformation. Her quest to complete her destiny? To kill Damon Salvatore (uh-oh). And Stefen doesn't really seem to care that much (double uh-oh). And Klaus, instead of going on a murdering spree, decides to spend most of the book looking for Elena's deep dark secret (eh.) Who better to be your guides through the ups and downs (and questions) of book 10? Of cours...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min
It's the last installment of the Hunter's trilogy: Destiny Rising! Meggie and Laura are in the final 4 books for the Vampire Diaries series and Klaus, the ultimate villain, has been resurrected! That's right, just when we thought the Vitale were getting stopped in their tracks, a much bigger/scarier foe has ARISEN and the only thing that can make this worse? He's building an army! Can our ragtag group of hot teens stop him once again? Will Elena's Guardian powers subplot ever become interesting?...
Jul 20, 2022•49 min
Laura and Meggie are BACK from their week-long break and are ready to wrap up the elite Moonsong! The mystery of the Vitale is slowly unraveling in tandem with whatever is going on with Zander and his friends. On top of that? Elena still can't pick between Damon and Stefan, which is unfortunately still a (boring) plot point 9 books in. Can our cast of characters figure out what's causing all the murders on campus and stop them for good? What does "Moonsong" mean anyway? And more importantly, can...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The time has come for our Vampire Diaries teens to FINALLY leave Fell's Church (thank God) and go off to college. Everyone's decided to forgo their dreams and aspirations to all attend college together (which is kind of cute but mostly a bummer). The college vibes in Moonsong have Meggie and Laura living through some sweet nostalgia and they are extra hyped that Bonnie and Matt are leading our main plots this book! Matt's on the verge of joining the campus' super secret society and Bonnie is cru...
Jun 29, 2022•56 min
It's Phantom Time BABY! The Phantom we've all been waiting for has finally arrived in this gripping conclusion to Book 8: The Hunters: Phantom. Also Damon is back and looking to kiss on Elena a whole bunch. And our squad is running around trying to find ways to stop the phantom. This phantom's power? Jealousy! That's right, jealousy is raging inside all our Fell's Church teens and the only way to stop it is to band together and cast some freaking spells. Tune in as Laura and Meggie recount the f...
Jun 22, 2022•55 min
Move over LJ Smith, a ghostwriter has taken over (literally! the next three books and rest of the series are all written by a ghostwriter). Laura and Meggie are absolutely here for the change of pace as this book starts off with a complete reset of the entire series, thanks to Elena and the deal she made with the Guardians at the end of book 7. So, all is well in Fell's Church, or is it? Only time will tell as the gang settles into this new timeline and something sinister once again starts lurki...
Jun 15, 2022•56 min
Vampire Diaries author LJ Smith really goes full throttle with plot points as Meggie and Laura flip through the remaining pages and are once again left piecing it all together. Can the gang save Fell's Church and defeat the fox spirits that have been lurking for the past 3 books? Will Elena finally tell Stefan she's kissing his brother behind his back? Meredith's a vampire hunter now? All this and more as the Return trilogy wraps up and turns the entire series on its head!
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min
What's better than a main plot with some side plots mixed in? Laura and Meggie have no idea! This book has no shortage of major plot elements that are all independent of each other, which has your hosts literally begging the question "why?" Kicking things off: Fells Church is still in chaos-mode, Damon needs to be a vampire again, Bonnie ends up accidentally in the Dark Dimension again, Matt is still being hunted by the cops, Caroline's werewolf destiny is looming, Alaric is brought back briefly...
Jun 01, 2022•55 min
It's that time of week for Meggie and Laura to dive back into Young Adult world, and this time we're still in the Dark Dimenstion. From rags to riches (in quite literally 10 pages), we discover that Lady Ulma is the heir to a jewel fortune. Instead of using her money to get Stefan free, instead and our group of rescuers can climb the social ranks as they party it up through the realm and search for the two fox keys. And just when you thought Elena would stop kissing her boyfriend's brother, (sin...
May 25, 2022•54 min
Hoping to move on quickly from the mess that was book #5, Laura and Meggie are relieved that the book #6 vibes are far superior than what they once were. Elena is stuck on the run with Matt and Damon as they race to get to the Demon Gate that will let them into the Dark Dimension to finally rescue her one true love Stefan, but UH OH, Damon's looking extra in Elena's eyes lately. The ultimate love triangle is just getting started, plus can Elena reform the underworld?! (Probably not, but our litt...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Wherever Meggie and Laura expected this book to go, they were completely wrong because the latter half is plot points on plot points and not in a concise way. The fox spirits are still wreaking havoc on literally everyone, Mrs. Flowers is now a witch and ready to fight, Stefan is still gone, Dr. Abbot's along for the ride, and our friends are doing their best to get everything under control. Get ready for snow globes, magic keys, and plenty of trigger warnings because this book, unfortunately, h...
May 11, 2022•59 min
