Subscription box: Illumicrate
Theme/Month: Murder Mystery, January 2024
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.
A start of a new year of book boxes, so let’s see how well we do start a year. From the leaflet and going clockwise:
- Murder Mystery leaflet
- Voyage of the Damned is the featured read, and honestly this kinda escaped my radar at some point and it hasn’t really caught my attention much, so still unread and unsure of when it will be read.
- The Best Stories fandom neutral reusable sticker book designed by Chatty Nora. Who doesn’t like a sticker book? I still have a Winnie the Pooh one I had as a kid, and a new one is never a bad thing.
- Crescent City bookmarks. I know it is from this series, but generally do not care for character bookmarks.
- Library stamp, which I did not keep since I have my own embosser.
- Underneath it all, an apron with spooky tasty treats, also not keps since the sizing doesn’t work for me sadly.
In general, probably not the best box and not the best start (but then I am not comparing with other January boxes). I only really kept one item and the rest didn’t hit it with me, so it felt like a big miss overall, which is a shame.