Hey there! It's Olivia-Savannah here from
Olivia's Catastrophe. And today I'm here
to do a double
Illumicrate unboxing. So what we've got
here is the July box and then we've also
got a special box.
And I am a rep at the moment so I do
have the code OLIVIA5 which can get
you a little bit of a discount
off of their three and six month book
box subscriptions. However, it doesn't work for the special
boxes. So even though I am going to be
unboxing the special box now, you can't
use the code for that. You can only use
it
for the monthly boxes. so let's get right
down to unboxing the July one first.
So first of all I see the info card with
all the descriptions of everything
inside the box. It's we are the resistance. That is the
theme for this month. So I'm expecting
a lot of rebel stuff. I'm not going to
take a peek.
I don't know what this is but it looks --
oh my gosh -- it looks like a book.
It looks like a book. It says:
celestial observations. A handbook of
celestial observations.
Stars, planets, nebulas. A comprehensive
guide to viewing the galaxy and
unlocking
the secrets of the stars. Here it says
this is a celestial observations
ceramic book pot. So I'm gonna add this
to my mug collection. You're not supposed
to drink from it,
you're just supposed to like, view it. But
it's absolutely great. You could use it
as a book end, I believe.
Or you could just use it -- oh this could
be a good place for me to store my
bookmark collection. As well as mugs I collect bookmarks. I
always have ever since primary school. So
I have
a lot of bookmarks and I usually keep
them in my TARDIS mug on my shelf.
But that's starting to overflow so I'll
split
my collection and put some in here. Okay,
the next thing I see are these four
cards and they are beautiful. They're
characters.
So we've got Marcus here, 
Leia, Helene and Elias.
This is so beautiful. I don't know where
these characters are from I'm gonna go
look up where these characters are from. The characters are from  An Ember in the
Ashes.
So I do have An Ember of Ashes on my
list of books to one day try. I've heard mixed things about the series
but these
cards might just convince me to try them
by themselves. These are sunglasses. I guess --
oh they have they say rebel scum on the
side.
We've got some a little spaceship war
going on the other side.
I literally just bought sunglasses
because I broke my yellow ones that I
had when I had blonde hair last year. And they matched and everything. But I
broke them in the transition from
Australia back to the Netherlands
so I literally just bought some brown
sunglasses. But
now I've got some cool black ones. It's
always good to have more than one .pair
It's time to go soar through the galaxy. Oh goodness.
Okay so this is a notebook which...
it's amazing. The artwork that
illumicrate gets in their boxes are just
amazing. And it says
never allow yourself to believe you
should be silent. And at the bottom it
says Samantha Shannon. So I'm assuming this is from The Bone
Season series because I've read Priory of
the Orange Tree and I don't recognize it
from there. And she only has one other
series.
Double checked and it is a Bone Season
notebook and it's got
one of the female characters and one of
the male characters on it.
The pages are blank and empty ones. So
my planner is halfway full. I might use this
one next. I also do a drawing once every year.
Literally, just
once. But maybe I should try and do it in
this notebook
because then I can have them all in one
place instead of on these random loose
pieces of paper that I keep them on now.
There's a little bookmark here for The
Sweet Black
Waves trilogy by Christina Perez. I've
never heard of that one before.
It's got a list of all the books on the
back. I'm gonna have to look up
what books those are but always here for
a bookmark. As I said I've got a bookmark
collection so this will be added to it. Got a little badge of
a hawk. I believe that's a hawk. It could
be an eagle. Mybe that's an eagle.
I'm just jaded from Call Down the Hawk. I
see a bird, I think it's a hawk. But
actually they're probably eagles or they
could be crows?
There's too many birds. This is the
cutest keyring ever.
It's a baron books and baubles keyring. To me this looks like it could be a cosy
bookshop. You know the kind that has a
cafe in it
and you can spend a whole day in it if
you want to. Drinking coffee and reading
the book that you literally just bought. That's what this looks like. It's so
beautiful. We have
the enamel pin that comes. A monthly
enamel pin. And this one says queen kills king on it.
Which gets me very excited for the book
because it sounds like there's going to
be some royalty included. So let's get to the book. So we have the
book here. It's called
Seven Devils and it's by Elizabeth May
and
Laura Lam. It's beautiful and purple
and I'm so excited because it has
sprayed edges. I love sprayed edges. Give
me all the sprayed edges and I'm happy. And I especially love
when the sprayed edges are a bright colour. So we've got some really bright
pink sprayed edges rocking here. On the
front it says: if you want to resist you
have to rebel. And on the back it says:
every
war has its heroes. This one has rebels. So let me go find out what it's about
and I'll get back to you with a synopsis. So we follow Eris, this main character
who
is the princess and heir to this
horrible horrible empire. She decides to fake her own death and
then
escape away from this empire that she
doesn't want to be part of. And she joins
the rebellion. However, she hasn't quite
managed to
lose her identity completely. She ends up
paired with Chloe
to do something as part of the
resistance. And Chloe realizes that she's
partnered with the
heir to the enemy. These two women have
to work together to take down an empire,
but can they get over their differences
to do so?
And meanwhile in the empire Eris's
brother
is working very hard to squash out the
resistance as much as possible.
This sounds like it's going to be a
science fiction adventure
with all the royalty shenanigans and
a lot of resisting and rebellion to
happen. On the inside I can see
that we've got a signed plate by the
authors which is always nice to see. And yes, there you have it. This is the
truly
beautiful box. I really love -- I'm just
digging the sprayed edges
so so so much. And I also especially like
how handy all of these items are. Like,
the sunglasses, the notebook, those are
definitely things I'm gonna use. And the ceramic book is beautiful.
I just can't wait to have that on my
shelves. And
now we're going to go to future Olivia. And now we're going to have an unboxing
of
the special box. Okay, let me set the
picture for you. It's raining outside. It's really dark
but
my A Darker Shade of Magic illumicrate
box arrived. So the rainy, gloomy weather, the clouds
in the sky trying to ruin my lighting,
is not going to stop me from opening
this box. Can you see that? Can you see how my
nails match the box? It was too perfect. I had to take this opportunity to film.
So let's
open up this bad boy.
The excitement is real. The first item is
a blanket, I can already tell. Which is so
handy when you're a student
because it gets so cold and you don't
want to turn on the heating because
bills and also environment.
But the blanket is so huge. I don't think
I can show you here but I'll try and do
a close-up where I lay it
out on a bed or something. And it looks
so gorgeous. It's about traveling
through the four Londons. It's soft and
cosy and I think I'm gonna love it so
much this winter.
I really really love this design. These
are just
amazing. Illumicrate really outdid
themselves. So we've got these little
stands here and on these little stands
you're supposed to stand up
the characters from A Darker Shade of
Magic. So
you can have them displayed on your
bookshelf. I'll show you a close-up of
what all of the characters look like
individually. But again, I'm so stunned by
the beautiful artwork. They look
absolutely fantastic and it also says
that they couldn't help sneaking one in
of the author. So she's also there. Then
we've got the darker shades of magic
enamel pin which
says: there are many shadows in the night. Which is beautiful. How do they make --
how can you get enamel pins this
gorgeous? I honestly
don't know. I'm gonna have to start like
a little pin collection and find a way
to display all of these
because they are all so individually
beautiful. I have to use my teeth. You know, I just
did my nails and we can't ruin that. These will  be rolly because they've been
packaged. But you know just press them
out and it's going to be perfectly fine.
The dust jackets! Oh my gosh. I love them so so much. This is the one for A
Darker Shade
of Magic. The artwork! The
artwork! The beauty! She is beauty,
she is grace, she is darkness. This is the
one for A Conjuring of Light.
We have the one for A Gathering of
Shadows.
I need to now -- I just need to buy all of
the books because I don't own all of the
books. Look at that. Oh my days. So this
is a hanging poster which is just
brilliant because also as a student
you're not allowed to like make holes in
the walls so you can just hang this from
something. And it says the essence. And it's a like,
poster from something that happens in
Red London. I've only read the first book
so do I remember this? I don't remember
this. But I do need to reread the book.
I'm so excited for the darker shade of
magic
read-along which is being hosted by
Yasminthereader and Sabine from
Sabine's Book Nook. And I'll be joining for A Gathering of
Shadows. So I am actually going to be
reading
the sequel to a darker shade of magic
soon and refreshing my memory.
Then we have a book sleeve and this is
actually so perfect. The other day I was
just looking into getting a book sleeve
because I do carry books around in my
bag
so often. And some of them get a bit,
little, a little bit damaged. Because you
know, the edges, the corners, the spine
especially. And I carry a lot of things in my bag. So
I was literally just looking into book
sleeves and now
illumicrate's like: here's a book sleeve
for you. We've got you covered.
And this is a beautiful one that
features Lila and Kell
on the cover. Oh I didn't -- I was looking
at the artwork so much that I didn't
even notice
that on the back we've got beautiful
writing. Let me read this to you. It says:
you two are circling each other like
stars. You come asking for one another
when only a few strides and a handful of
stars divide you. I don't think I've come across that
quote in the series yet. But what a quote. Oh my goodness, it's beautiful. There's
things inside the book sleeve. Okay, I feel the book but is there
anything else? Okay, there's something
else.
We'll go to the something else
before we get to the book. This is a
little cloth. Who's on it? How do they get artwork on
things like this? How did they do that? So this features
Alucard
and Lila doing their magic lessons. I
don't know how you get artwork onto
something this small
and this like, dainty. But this is for
cleaning your glasses which is perfect
because in the July lumicrate box we
just got
some rebel scum sunglasses. So I know
which cloth I'll be using
to clean those up whenever I need to
like, see through my sunglasses. Okay, last
but not least we're getting to the book. Okay, turn it around so you guys can see
it first. Then I get to see. What does it look like? Oh
that's a beautiful dust jacket. We love a
good spine.
Oh I love it. Ah and we've got like,
we've got like, glossy edges. They're like,
metallic grey. I don't think the camera
picks it up that much but it shines like
it's a metallic grey. Which is absolutely beautiful. Oh
you didn't have to do me like that. Look
at that
end paper. It's beautiful. It's so beautiful. It's signed
by the author understand. We stan this box. I feel like rereading A Darker Shade of
Magic now. I feel like rereading the
first one.
The end paper gets me again. So clearly
I have not gone to applying dust jacket
school but just to give you an idea,
this is what it sort of looks like
once you have the dust jacket on. I will
probably fold this a bit neater and
tidy it up and do it better. But I still
got to go to dust jacket school.
My oh my, illumicrate's done it again. I
absolutely love this box. I think what I
love the most about illumicrate is not
only do they give you beautiful things,
but they give you beautiful useful
things. There's always something that I'm
thinking of buying
and then I get it in a box but it's also
fandom related. So I am very very happy. So please let me know in the comment
section down below: have you read the
darker shade of magic series? Do you
enjoy it? Are you joining us for the darker shade
of magic series
readalong? And also, if we're going by the
first box,
what is your favorite science fiction
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And you know what they say: onwards and
upwards. Excelsior! Ad she ends up paired
with Chloe *horn honks*. ... To do something -- some people walking past.
Don't look in the house. Don't look in the house. Don't look at me.
Okay.
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