YA, We Read It!

Just when you thought Meggie and Laura had no tricks left up their sleeves for the eleventh season: you thought wrong and you were absolutely mistaken. Join your two hosts AND best-selling author of the One of Us Is Lying series Karen M McManus as they talk about the books, Karen's writing process, and how the entire world of Bayview came together. (spoiler alert: Meggie and Laura fangirl big time...

Big surprise and a very special TUESDAY release of beloved YA, We Read It! Today, is the day that Karen M McManus' highly anticipated third book in her series One of Us Is Back hits shelves and Laura and Meggie have already read it! (Thank you for the advanced copy!!!) All seven members of the Bayview crew has gathered once again and ... well, we will leave it at that since the book is brand new a...

Well, well, well look what we have here: someone who couldn't get enough of YA, We Read It! and just HAD to come back for the next episode in season 11! This week Meggie and Laura are diving headfirst into the titillating sequel in Karen McManus' trilogy, One of Us Is Next. Life at Bayview High has once again taken a turn as a school-wide game of truth or dare puts everyone at risk. And it's up to...

Pay close attention and you will be in for the ride of your life. It's an all new season of YA, We Read It! and two hosts are mic'd up in the studio. There's Laura, the host of the podcast and Meggie, who's also the host of the podcast. And these two very funny and delightful best friends are devoting all of their 11th season to Karen McManus' One of Us Is Lying trilogy. The tale of five students...

It feels like the summer is only just beginning, yet our time reading Jenny Han's hit YA-trilogy turned hit Amazon Prime Show: The Summer I Turned Pretty is already coming to a close. Join Meggie and Laura for a romantic stroll down season-wrap-up lane where they're giving their final opinions on the series as a whole, the ultimate love triangle that was Belly, Jeremiah, and Conrad, and all the no...

Always and forever besties, just remember you'll always have Laura and Meggie ready to talk YA with you. It's the final book of Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy and it's a couple years after Belly and Jeremiah drove off into the sunset together. The couple is still going strong, but after Belly discovers Jeremiah had a one-time hookup during their brief breakup (uh-oh), the pair deci...

and Laura reading the second book in Jenny Han's Summer trilogy: It's Not Summer Without You. One year after Belly and Conrad kissed at Cousins Beach and finally seemed to get somewhere in their relationship, we discover that it came to a screeching halt pretty quickly. Belly is at home for the summer, single, and grieving Susannah's recent death. After Conrad goes MIA, our favorite summer love tr...

It wouldn't be the summer of YA, We Read It!'s 10th season without diving into a series about all of our favorite summer things: beach houses, love triangles, and plenty of drama. And thankfully for us: Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty has everything we could have asked for and more! Belly is once again visiting Cousins Beach for the summer, where the dreamy Fisher brothers, Conrad and Jerem...

Alas, another YA, We Read It! season has come to a close. Tune in as Laura and Meggie go through their ultimate ranking of each and every John Green book that graced their airwaves (and who knows maybe they'll rank their guests too!?!). It's easy to say John Green's prolific 12+ year YA career spanning 6 books + 1 anthology is anything but surface level. Dealing with many themes: love, loss, grief...

Here we GO! It's time for John Green's most recent YA book, Turtles All the Way Down. Aza and her bestie Daisy are investigating the disappearance of a not-so-nice billionaire in hopes of cashing in on a $100K reward. Along the way Aza finds romance with the billionaire's son, grapples with grief, anxiety and OCD, and the reality that a fancy- old lizard is the heir to the billionaire's riches. Jo...

Will Grayson, meet Will Grayson the other protagonist of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Also meet Laura and Meggie, the hosts of YA, We Read It! This week we're joined by Nick Olson, and together we are tackling John Green's co-written book with David Levithan about the two different boys from two different Chicago suburbs with the exact same name. After a surprise encounter at an adult bookstore the...

This week on YA, We Read It! Laura and Meggie are joined by Elena Bruess to read and discuss John Green's heart-wrenching and extremely popular novel The Fault in Our Stars. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of thirteen, Hazel Grace Lancaster has her life turned upside down after meeting cigarette toting-but-not-smoking Augustus Waters. The two fall madly in “okay” together until their stor...

Continuing forward with the ultimate John Green Season, Meggie and Laura are joined by Ana Mandujano to read Paper Towns. Quentin is your average guy who's not-so-averagely attracted to the girl who lives next door, Margo. After they spend a wild night together and she goes missing, Quentin becomes desperate for answers after he finds clues to her whereabouts have been left for him.

Laura and Meggie are dashing through their John Green season by reading the Let It Snow anthology. Once again, gracing the soundwaves ofYA, We Read It! once again with their presence are special guests Brooke Smith and Ryan Stevens (hosts of Nation of Animation)! The four friends sit down to dissect each and every snowy story for an episode of laughter, Christmas-in-April cheer, and questionable c...

Here at YA, We Read It! We pride ourselves on our abundance of amazing vibes, abundance of great company, and abundance of thoughts on John Green's An Abundance of Katherines. This week Meggie and Laura are sitting down with Richard Brasseale to dive into John Green's second novel and we'll tell you right now: they do not hold back on the many MANY problems this book has. Colin Singleton is once a...

Welcome to the 9th season of YA, We Read It! This season, beloved hosts Laura and Meggie are reading John Green's entire anthology (and enlisting some very special guests along the way.) This week, Austin Merrill sits down with us to read Green's first book, Looking for Alaska (originally published in 2005) which easily became one of his most well-known and well-received works. Miles Halter goes o...

Oh, You. And also you! You stuck with us the whole season while we flipped through You and we couldn't be more appreciative that you came along for the ride of YA, We Read It's 8th Season! Meggie and Laura sit down in this episode to wrap up their thoughts and feelings of the series and also Joe Goldberg as a protagonist. An added bonus: they discuss under what terms and conditions Joe would becom...

You waited all week and now you are once again pressing play on YA, We Read It! so you can find out what happens next to resident bad guy Joe Goldberg after he was arrested at the Taco Bell. We knew you couldn't get enough of us! Laura and Meggie are closing out their You season with a discussion on the third book in the series. Turns out, Joe did not rot in jail but he also didn't run off into th...

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 Jo...

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-...

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...

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? A...

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 ov...

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...

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...