YA, We Read It!

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...

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 the...

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 L...

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, au...

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...

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...

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 conf...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 secr...

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 g...

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 m...

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 mai...

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...

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...

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...

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 st...

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 fo...

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...

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 r...

Ten years after the fourth book ended, the fifth book of Vampire Diaries came into the world and picked up right where it left off. Elena is alive! Weirdly she has some baby energy as she's learning to be human again? Something is once again amiss in Fell's Church and Damon is too busy brooding to help at all. He's too busy focusing on how to get Stefan out of the picture so he can make Elena all...

Okay, we'll admit it: we didn't expect the main character to die at the end of the third book! Bonnie takes over as our main point of view and she even starts keeping a diary to cope with Elena's death (aw cute!). Just when we thought the people of Fell's Church were destined for some peace and quiet, more trouble is brewing in the shadows and Bonnie's powers might be the only way the gang can get...