Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Female hand holding Red poppy flowers in a wild field. Vivid Poppies meadow in spring. Beautiful summer day. Beautiful red poppy flowers on green fleecy stems grow in the field. Scarlet poppy flowers in the sunset light. / Photo by ' yanishevskaanna ', licensed by Envato.com . The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang is a militaristic fantasy book and by far, one of the most popular books I’ve ever read. It exceeded every single expectation I ever

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid is a retelling that you’ve never known you needed. It’s a gothic retelling of The Juniper Tree , where a boy is murdered by this stepmother who cooks him and feeds him to his father. The boy’s sister buries his bones under a juniper tree and he’s reborn as a magical bird. Eventually it leads him to kill his stepmother and bring him back to life, but this retelling, it’s something you wouldn’t expect

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder is one of the weirdest books you will ever read. What starts seemingly like an alternate-version of the COVID-19 virus, it’s clearly not, or at the very least way more severe. The main character, Erin, starts vomiting blood and bleeding from the eyes, and that’s just the start of this horror tale. It’s a mix of apocalyptic, body horror, and dystopian. With nodes of romance, and general weirdne

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment If you need a new read for this spooky season then look no further; Bunny  by Mona Awad has you...

Mikayla Leskey | Arts & Entertainment “You Should Be So Lucky” by Cat Sebastian is the baseball romance you never knew you wanted....

Mikayla Leskey | Arts & Entertainment Editor “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo has been sitting on my bookshelf for the past five...

Mikayla Leskey | Arts & Entertainment Editor “Darius the Great is Not Okay” by Adib Khorram is the first book to ever make me cry, and...

Their Vicious Games is a compelling novel for debut author Joelle Wellington.

Jessica Vieira | Opinion Editor Eastern Connecticut State University’s Book Club read Catastrophe Theory by Rebecca Lowry Warchut as...