YA, We Read It!
Friendship, adventure, first kisses, first fights, and sometimes supernatural: Young Adult novels are a treasure given to us by authors around the world. Best friends and comedians Laura Petro and Meggie Gates are sitting down for their very own book club to reread the series that shaped their school years in ”YA, We Read It!” because yes. Yes, they did actually read it.This is a podcast on Audio Mint Podcast Network.
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Come one, come all to a very special episode of YA, We Read It! Meggie and Laura are reading through then sitting down with author Jenni Howell to discuss her debut & New York Times Bestselling novel: Boys with Sharp Teeth
Marin James is on a mission: to infiltrate the exclusive Hunstworth Academy and fine the real truth behind her cousin's murder. Enter her new persona: Jamie Vane who will stop at nothing to get there.
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The sun has risen once more for Laura and Meggie to conclude their discussion of Suzanne Collin's latest Hunger Games venture: Sunrise on the Reaping
Your beloved besties and hosts are sprinting into the games portion of the book where it's Haymitch against the Capitol, and everyone else against each other. Join us as we laugh, we cry, and we applaud this modern tragedy.
SPOILERS AHEAD. YA, We Read It! is covering every. single. d...
The book? Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. The time? Right now.
Meggie and Laura are back at their insanely hot mics ready to cover the latest in the Hunger Games universe. We are going back in time to the 50th Annual Hunger Games where Haymitch Abernathy is a normal teen in district 12, until he's propelled into his almost certain death after being selected to participate in the games with twice as many tributes.
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Join Meggie and Laura for their sit down session of divulging every last thought they possibly have on Kass Morgan's post-apocalyptic The 100 series. They laughed, they cried, they had MANY thoughts on the various characters and their relationships throughout, but now it's time to float away and move to the next one!
It's been over a month since the 100 crash landed on Earth and it's been filled with danger at every turn. With preparations for a peaceful feast with the Earthborns underway it finally seems like everything is going to be okay -- until it isn't! A new threat quickly emerges with fancy white clothes, sedatives, and grenades (surprise! It's a cult!). Join your hosts Meggie and Laura and they discuss the final 100 book.
Laura and Meggie wish they could tell you that The 100: Homecoming is about everyone having a nice big dance on Earth, but unfortunately that's not the case. The remaining dropships have landed on Earth, which is great because Glass can reunite with her friends, but it's much much worse considering her mom just died and Vice Chancellor Rhodes is here to ruin everything the 100 has built so far. Glass takes to the woods while Bellam...
Well, well, well it's been 3 weeks since our convicted-felon-teens made their way to Earth and Clarke is fearful of radiation poisoning finally settling in but more importantly she's going to explore her budding relationship with Bellamy, Wells captures and befriends an earth born girl, Glass is not doing so hot up in space, and Meggie and Laura are your hosts ready to talk about it all!
Laura and Meggie plunge into YA, We Read It!'s 16th season with Kass Morgan's book series turned CW series: The 100.
In the future, Earth has become uninhabitable and forced humans to seek reprieve in space. Now, the beloved space station in which they live is running out of resources. The government plots to see if Earth can once again be an option for humanity by sending 100 prisoners (all teens; we will explain why) to test the...
Catie's life is turned upside down when her and her family leave their life in sunny California behind to go live with family in Utah. Still grappling with the death of her father, Catie yearns to reconnect with her biological mother and culture. Everything changes for her when her coworker Toby offers Mandarin lessons in exchange for her teaching him how to date. Tune in for a very special YA, We Read It! Where Meggie and Laura a...
A microphone, a laptop, a YA novel, a notepad... these aren't clues to your next Tobias Hawthorne puzzle, instead it's time once again for Laura and Meggie to bid adieu to their 15th season: The Inheritance Games. The first book graced bookshelves in 2020 and just a few short years later, your hosts dived in and couldn't get enough of the twists, the turns, and talking about the ever present love triangle between Avery, Jameson, an...
CHECK MATE as they say! It's time for one final mystery to take place at Hawthorne House and your resident hosts and puzzle-makers Meggie and Laure are here to dissect all the clues and plot to their hearts content.
It's been almost a year since Avery came to Hawthorne House and inherited billions of dollars, its also been almost a year of her dating Jameson Hawthorne while still thinking about his brother Grayson (yeesh!). Myster...
Gather round ye' listener! For another tale of puzzles, riddles, deception, and love triangle! Laura and Meggie are back at the mic to discuss the second Inheritance Games novel, The Hawthorne Legacy.
Xander's puzzle left from Tobias has finally revealed itself and now it's time to find the Hawthorne uncle that everyone thought was dead. Can the Hawthorne gang work together to find the answers their looking for?
You know what they say: New Year, New Season of YA, We Read It!
Laura and Meggie are back for their 15th season and strapping in for the Inheritance Games trilogy. Avery Kylie Grambs is an exceedingly normal girl who gets catapulted into notoriety and fortune after inheriting billions of dollars from the now deceased puzzle-master Tobias Hawthorne. The catch? She's never met the guy! And now has to live with his family (including ...
Let's end 2024 traveling back in time to 1910 Chicago where four young women are going through the ups and downs of social life, society, and romance in the sequel to New York Times bestseller The Davenports.
The Davenports: More Than This continues Olivia's, Ruby's, Helen's, and Amy Rose's journey in young adulthood. AND even more than THAT your hosts Meggie and Laura are sitting down with the author Krystal Marquis to talk all ...
Once again Meggie and Laura have gathered to bid farewell to another book series. After losing their vir-JANE-ity this season (nice) reading the anthological Lady Janies series it's time for a final review as your hosts talk about the ups and downs of being a Jane from history. You'll laugh, you'll question the hosts' projections for if these characters had social media presences, and you'll hear what's happening in the YA, We Read...
Rounding out the My Lady Janies series is My Calamity Jane a wild west historical/fictional take on Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley and others from the time. Join Laura and Meggie for a rootin' tootin' good time where in this new wild west world we've got werewolves running about and it's up to our cast of characters to hunt down the Alpha that's infecting people all over the country.
It's time for book number 2 in the Lady Janies series and much to your hosts surprise, its an anthology series! That's right, a whole new Jane and a whole new cast of characters to go on an adventure with. Meet Jane Eyre and her friend Charlotte Bronte (sounds familiar, right?) in a world of school and being poor, there's also ghosts! Like, a LOT of ghosts. Jane can see them! Charlotte cannot! Alexander also can and he's a ghost hu...
Hello world! It's us, Meggie and Laura and we are back for our 14th season. My Lady Jane (the first book in the Lady Janies series) written by Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand, and Brodi Ashton became the hit amazon prime show of the same name. After watching the show your beloved hosts simply had to read the source material, okay?
Meet Edward and Gifford and Lady Jane -- our three protagonists. Edward's the teenage King who's being pois...
Join Meggie and Laura for a very special one-off YA, We Read It! ahead of their next season where they are reading Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston.
Alex and Henry couldn't be more different despite both being children of powerful political figures. Alex, the First Son of the United States yearns for a political career himself and spends plenty of time loathing the dashing and eligible Prince Henry. When their disdai...
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