Subscription box: Illumicrate
Theme/Month: Dark Academia, August 2021
Ownership: Subscribed on their 6 boxes option. If you are interested in purchasing an Illumicrate subscription, you can do it on their website.
Illumicrate is a book subscription box, it usually features fantasy and sci-fi but not exclusively young adult, sometimes it features adult too. It usually contains a new release, a pin and several bookish goodies.
Being someone who enjoys some dark academia books, this box sounded right up my street, but was it? Starting from the book on the left and going clockwise:
- The Devil Makes Three, with a stunning cover and sprayed edges
- First collectible teacup and saucer, this won my heart because the artwork is Mucha style, a goddess and it is about tea…
- A reading journal, very fancy hardcover
- Dark Academia page tabs to mark things int he book to your academic delight.
- Monthly pin, which looks very interesting.
- A Guid to Secret Societies ceramic book pot, which is quite pretty.
- Academic and bookish washi tape to help with he reading journal.
Honestly if they had included a fountain pen and some tea, this would’ve been the perfect box, and so aesthetically and thematically pleasing. But even without those items it is a very good box and fighting for the spot of favourite box of the year from Illumicrate.