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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Lock in, it's book 2 in the Lightlark series: Nightbane. It's after the Centennial and Isla is staying on Lightlark enjoying the stress of her win as she learns more about her powers and contemplates how to rule 2 realms. More stress? Sure! Isla is slowly starting to get all her memories (that Grim took away) back. MORE? Absolutely! Nightshade is coming to Lightlark to destroy it once and for all. Tune in as Meggie and Laura review...
In our world of podcasts, there is Laura and Meggie's YA, We Read It! bringing you a new season. And in a far away world there is the fantasy world of Lightlark an island that hosts a game every 100 years so rulers of the 6 realms can compete to defeat their centuries old curses. (Rad!)
The stakes are higher than ever for Isla, ruler of the Wildling realm. She's attending the Centennial for the very first time and despite her lifet...
Welcome to another episode of YA, We Read It! where once again Meggie and Laura dive into the romantic world of another Lynn Painter novel: Fake Skating. Alec and Dani were once best friends but after Dani moved away they became basically strangers. Fast forward years later, and Dani is back in Minnesota and Alec is the school's most valuable hockey player. The two friends turned foes quickly turn into a fake relationship but both ...
Laura and Meggie are SAT for the sequel to Lynn Painter's Better Than the Movies, titled Nothing Like the Movies.
Two years after Liz and Wes got together and we all rejoiced at the romance unfolding on our pages our little lovebirds are no longer together (right? we were shocked too!). But now that all this time has passed Wes is ready to give things another shot he just has to do the work to convince Liz that this time will be n...
If you ask us the only thing better than the movies is Meggie and Laura finally returning to their microphones for Season 18 of YA, We Read It!
That's right! Your beloved hosts are back and reading Lynne Painter's Better Than the Movies and are kicking their feet and says "eee!" at every point and turn in this modern YA romance. Tune in as we discuss Liz and her forever quest to find love that's just like the movies she loves so m...
Winding down the 17th season Meggie and Laura have reunited in person to discuss not only the Remnant Chronicles prequel, Morrighan but also their last thoughts and feelings on Mary E. Pearson's series. Tune in to revisit the romance, the journey across a continent, and where it all started with Morrighan.
Laura and Meggie are sat for the big finale in The Remnant Chronicles series as they crack open the near-700-page The Beauty of Darkness. Some might say the real beauty of darkness is the friends you make along the way and we'd agree!
Lia and Rafe are safely out of Venda but it's no happily ever after. Tensions rise between the pair as they race to prepare their kingdoms for the threat of the Vendan army. Can they overthrow Venda?...
Picking up right where we left off last book The Heart of Betrayal kicks off with Lia and Rafe held captive in Venda and immediately thinking of their next moves to get the heck out of there. Meanwhile Kaden is trying to convince both the Komizar (and himself) that bringing Lia to the barbarian kingdom was a good idea. Join Laura and Meggie as they discuss, dissect, and fully immerse themselves in the continuation of The Remnant Ch...
Hello! Happy Summer it's the 17th season of YA, We Read It! Join Meggie and Laura as they read through the Remnant Chronicles series, starting with: The Kiss of Deception.
Princess Lia is set to be married off to secure alliances between her kingdom of Morrighan and the kingdom of Dalbrek. The only issue? She really wants to marry for love! Like enough so that she's going to abandon the kingdom and her family and that's exactly wh...
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...
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