YA, We Read It!

Welcome back to YA, We Read It! Where Laura and Meggie are reading the 4th Off Campus book "The Goal." There's a lot to say about goals in life, and there's a lot to say about when those goals get uprooted by an unexpected pregnancy, which is exactly what happens to hockey boy Tucker and smart girl Sabrina! In a book of mommy issues, and stepdaddy issues, and nana issues on top of all the other sc...

It's time for more YA, We Read It! Meggie and Laura are here and ready to discuss the third off campus book The Score!!  Dean and Allie run in the same circles, Dean one of the hockey guys and Allie is Hannah's best friend. When Allie breaks up with her boyfriend for 4th time, she's determined to not backslide and take him back. Unfortunately for her in her efforts to not get back with him, it lea...

We all make mistakes! (Even your perfect hosts, Meggie and Laura!) But for Logan, our book 2 protagonist, he's unfortunately dealing with a domino-effect of mistakes after meet-cuting Grace by accidentally knocking on her dorm room one night. Logan grappling with his feelings for his best friends girlfriend, his future, and now Grace, who he can't stop thinking about really isn't in the best spot...

It's YA, We Read It's 22nd season! (we really can't believe it!!!) And that means its time to transport ourselves to the wonderful time that was the year 2015 and step into the world of Off Campus (which is now an Amazon Prime show!!)  Hannah agrees to tutor her philosophy classmate, Garrett Graham (captain of the hockey team), in exchange for fake dating him to get the attention of another guy. W...

The City of Season Finales: population Meggie and Laura! They have done it! They have completed Cassandra Clare's 6 book Shadowhunters series and boy how the time did... move...  To conclude a season of a lot of characters, plotpoints, and unfortunate incestuous plotlines we request your humble listening as we close down out time with Jace, Clary, Alec, Isabelle, and Simon, and everyone else, and...

Bonded pair Meggie and Laura (your hosts, besties, parabatai, etc.) have done it: they have finished the final book in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments Series. Sound the alarms! Set the fireworks off! Contain your Heavenly Fire! Tell a friend!!! ITS FINALE TIME.  Sebastian's plans for Shadowhunter domination are (unfortunately) going very well. When everyone is summoned to shelter in place in...

Your favorite hosts + lost souls Laura and Meggie have returned for book 5 of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments Series: City of Lost Souls.  Jace is fully MIA after the showdown with the demon Lilith in book 4, when he returns he's all buddy-buddy with Sebastian and wants Clary to come be with them. Meanwhile the rest of the gang tries to figure out a way to sever the bond between Sebastian and...

Meggie and Laura are back at their very hot mics and ready for the 4th installment of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series. Just when Clary and Jace are finally under the viewpoint that they are, in fact, NOT brother and sister and they can finally be together, Jace starts having dreams that he wants to murder Clary. And, speaking of murder, Simon keeps having people in gray tracksuits try...

Your hosts Meggie and Laura are back for another installment of the Shadowhunters series! After Clary used her newfound rune powers to have an entire cruise ship close in on itself The Clave is suspicious! She's supposed to meet them in the land of the Shadowhunters, Idris but things go from bad to worse when Jace tricks everyone into leaving without Clary, accidentally brings Simon along, and Cla...

YA, We Read It's 21st season continues right now! Laura and Meggie are diving in to more Mortal Instruments (more like Mortal Incest-ruments, am I right?) because after Clary found out Jace, the boy she was crushing and kissing on, was her brother... she now has to grapple with the fact that she still really wants to crush and kiss on her brother (...yikes!). To mask her forbidden feelings, she's...

Well, well, well look what we have here: YA, We Read It!'s 21st season. Resident YA readers, best friends, and hosts Meggie and Laura are back and this time they're reading Cassandra Clare's best-selling Shadowhunters series: The Mortal Instruments. Welcome to the City of Bones! (Just kidding, that's later!) Actually, welcome to NEW YORK CITY! The city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, the bi...

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of YA, We Read It! In which Laura and Meggie are sitting down with author Kaitlyn Cavalancia to talk about her writing, her debut novel Mystery Royale and it's brand new sequel Hunting the Strange. 

Special SPEED RUN episode brought to you by beloved hosts and best friends Meggie and Laura. Kaitlyn Cavalancia's debut novel and its sequel (Mystery Royale and Hunting the Strange) follow Mullory Prudence down a rabbit hole of clues, magic, and murder as her world as she knows it is completely turned upside down. The further she goes the more she uncovers more and more about her own mother's myst...

Come sit around the fire and let us gaze into the flames as we look back on the 20th season of YA, We Read It! Rick Riorden's Percy Jackson and the Olympians debuted in 2005 and gave us 5 books about Percy learning he's a demigod, going on quests, and coming of age. Join your hosts Meggie and Laura as they talk about Percy and his journey one last time.

Meggie and Laura are back at their respective virtual recording studios to regale you with their discoveries after reading the fifth and final Percy Jackson book. Percy is about to be 16 and its time for him to really hear his big prophecy for the first time. Chaos and destruction are near as Kronos is planning his ultimate takeover with the Titan army!!! It's Camp Half-Blood v. Kronos + Titans +...

Another summer is here and Luke and Kronos are still a threat to Camp Half-Blood. Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson team up and head way down below into Daedalus' Labyrinth to stop the pending invasion. Tune in as Laura and Meggie navigate their way through book 4 of Percy Jackson & the Olympians!!! 

Well, well, well, if it isn't another episode of YA, We Read It! (It is!!!!) Meggie and Laura are back in the saddle and Percy is on winter break. Called to assist with some new half-bloods, him, Grover, Thalia and Annabeth spring into action! Things go from bad to worse when Annabeth goes missing and a new group of heroes called The Hunters come to play and they do not want any help from the half...

Another summer approaches for Percy and he's kind of getting used to this whole Half-Blood thing. When nightmares of Grover in need combined with suspicious activities at camp lead to another quest on the table, Percy will do anything he can to get Grover back and save Camp Half-Blood. With Annabeth and his new friend/half-brother Tyson in tow its time to sail the ocean blue! Join Laura and Meggie...

Season 20 of YA, We Read It is here! It's time to lock into a middle-grade series from the aughts: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Meggie and Laura are back at the mics and extremely excited to dive into a place where their past selves never went: to Camp Half-Blood. It's 0 to 100 as Percy's entire world is turned upside down when he finds out that his real dad is Poseiden, the Greek God of the S...

SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT! As Laura and Meggie gear up for their next season they both read Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation. So, welcome to a very casual episode in which your hosts yap about Poppy and Alex's 12+ year friendship turned romance, the balcony scene, and the new Netflix movie. You're welcome!!! See you soon! 

It's time for a very special episode of YA, We Read It! in which Meggie and Laura are sitting down with author Lynn Painter to discuss her writing, the midwest, and her most recent novel Fake Skating. (This is very exciting for us!!!!) 

Once every 100 years six rulers fight to break the curses given to their realm. And once every Wednesday Laura and Meggie release the audio track of their yapping recovered from the most recent time they say their butts in front of their microphones to talk about the books they're reading. It's time for the fated hosts to lay to rest their final thoughts of the Lightlark Saga, Isla and her love tr...

It's time the 4th book in Alex Aster's Lightlark series and Laura and Meggie are ready to portal themselves into Isla's ever-unfolding story. Now that Isla's gone to another world entirely with her own plans to defeat Lark, Grim and Oro are forced to work together to help her any way they can. But, that's going to prove harder than anticipated considering she's in another world entirely... Don't y...

It's book 3 in Alex Aster's Lightlark series, Skyshade. Picking up directly after the massive war on Lightlark that was supposed to (in Isla's eyes) cement Grim and all of Nightshade as the evil beings they are, she's instead learned that before her memories were taken she actually died in battle, Grim saved her life, and they fell in love and got married -- whoops! So she's going to feel out that...

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....