Subscription box: Illumicrate
Theme/Month: Look What You Made Me Do, August 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 and several bookish goodies.
August box definitely had a distinct colour vibe going on here. So let’s go from the featured book and clockwise:
- Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright which I still have to read, I just haven’t felt particularly compelled to, and so I don’t know when I will get to it.
- A weekly pill box inspired by Ruthless Remedy. I like this one but I had one in use already so haven’t used it yet.
- Silver Under Nightfall inspired snack bowls. I love these and they are perfect for snack sizing. I generally love almost everything that is dishware they bring out.
- Underneath it we have a black and a red packing cube, which I gifted out as I didn’t need any but these were gorgeous.
- Then we have the usual monthly leaflet of contents
- And finally a replica dagger from The Serpent and the Wings of Night which I didn’t read so no clue. I generally don’t keep these since they’re too heavy to use as hair pins (if they were good as hairsticks, then I’d be all over them, but they’re much too heavy) and I don’t have much reason to keep them otherwise.
Overall, it was definitely a box in theme but I didn’t keep much from it, even if the snack bowls were absolute winners (they are still a winner). Part of me wishes the collectible was more useful but I get the nice unique factor here for the replicas.