Subscription Boxes

Moon Hauls: You Win or You Die

Subscription box: Illumicrate

Theme/Month: You Win or You Die, July 2023

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 fiction too. It usually contains a new release, a pin and several bookish goodies.

A lovely little box, and let’s start from the top left corner going clockwise:

  • Fire is Catching towel. I have found the towels to never dry well enough for me (I like fluffy towels and for my hair t-shirt or high absorbing ones) which is the disappointing part, otherwise I would absolutely love this towel.
  • Aromatic Magic tea cups. I love a good stemless cup in this style, these are delicate and gorgeous.
  • Guess the character card game, which is a cool idea, but I am very bad at faces and matching my idea of how a character looks with the overall view, however the art collection here was stunning.
  • The featured book, which is The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem, another absolutely amazing read that I enjoyed and have actually read.
  • A guild of knowledge embroidered pouch which I use to store cards in.

This wasn’t a bad box, but if you compare it to the Night and Day one, it’s definitely lacking. The stemless cups were a win (I tend to use mine as “wine glasses” but also as cups for tea) but the game fell flat for me as did the towel. I would’ve liked more an “art” collection book of characters or something similar to properly browse the artwork, or maybe we need a where’s the character type of book with lots of characters form different books doing their own thing in a fantasy world…

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