Theme of the Box
Description by Illumicrate
Our theme for November is SPELLBINDING STORIES! These are books whose lyrical prose or enchanting plots have truly bewitched us. We’ll be including an officially licensed Strange the Dreamer item and items inspired by Circe, This Is How You Lose the Time War, The Starless Sea and more! This is our 5 year anniversary box and we are so proud of it. We have some exciting reveals to bring you, but we’ll start with announcing our next Pauhami book sleeve is in this box! Our series with @Pauhami will now be inspired by our favourite magical places, and we’ve certainly started this series off with a bang!
The Items
Forgotten Fables and Folklore Ceramic Book Pot
Inspired by
Design by Chatty Nora
This pot is gorgeous just like the first one I got, it’s joined the other on my shelf with all my other display items.
The Great Library of Zosma Book Sleeve
Inspired by: Strange the Dreamer
Designed by: Pauhami
This is one of my favourite items in this box! I absolutely love the quality of the book sleeve and I am already using it!
Letters in Bottles Ornament
Inspired by: This Is How You Lose a Time War
Designed by: Her Paper World
I am in love with this ornament and it looks beautiful on my Christmas Tree!
Herblore Face Mask
Inspired by: Circe
Designed by: Stacey McEvoy-Caunt
I did buy a reusable facemask but it not nearly as pretty as this one – I have decided to retire that one and use this one for the foreseeable.
Bookplate Set
Inspired by: The Starless Sea
Designed by: Jess Le Design
This is the only item in this box I won’t use. They are well designed, but there are just not an item I would ever use.
Featured Book: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
This edition is signed by the author and sprayed edges. There was supposed to be an exclusive hidden cover but something went wrong in the production of the books and which resulted in no hidden cover.
In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.
Featured Book: Legendborn by Tracey Deonn
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
After a mysterious mage who calls himself a “Merlin” fails to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw, Bree’s own unique magic is unlocked and a buried memory surfaces: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the secret society for the ‘Legendborn’-the descendants of King Arthur’s knights-as one of their initiates. With a magical war coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should take the society down or join the fight.
Monthly Collectors Pin by Stacey McEvoy-Caunt
Inspired by all the things spells need to be successful.
Happy anniversary Illumicrate. I really liked this box. The second book was unexpected. I loved getting it but I did already have this book, so I’ve gifted it to one of my good friends to enjoy.
Do you subscribe to Illuimcrate? What was your favourite item?
