Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di dicembre, con la scelta classica dell'Illumicrate , ovvero un dicembre sci-fi!

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS" BY ESMIE JIKIEMI-PEARSON

TRAMA:

In self-deified Emperor Thracin’s brave new galaxy, Humans are not citizens. Instead, they are laborers indentured to the empire, working to repay the billions in debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan—a planet already owned by someone else.

Asha Akindele has lived her whole life on Gahraan, eking out an existence between factory assembly lines and constant terror—studying stolen aeronautics manuals in the dead of night and trying not to get herself killed for mouthing off to a guard. Then she discovers she has a sister imprisoned by the Emperor, and is forced to make a choice: stay enslaved, but relatively safe, or escape and risk
everything in the name of family.

Obi Amadi is a time-traveller, sick with a legendary disease. Armed only with his prosthetic arm, his ever-constant melancholy, and the humour he uses to mask it, he has spent years travelling through time and space in search of a cure for the sickness currently unmaking him limb by limb. His mandate: Find the cure, go home. And maybe figure out along the way if the prince he thinks sometimes he might love could be that home.

When Obi saves Asha’s life, they make a pact: both will do all they can to get the other to the Emperor’s stronghold unscathed. With the reluctant aid of Xavior, a mouthy deckhand with a mysterious past, Asha and Obi attempt to navigate a galaxy that hates them to find the things they both believe will make them whole.

But a prophecy has started that has other plans, and not only is Asha forced to make a terrible choice, she must soon reckon with the legacy of an ancient religion and its heroes, who may be awakening, reincarnated in ways beyond her comprehension.

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- A Thousand Lives TBR jar

- weekly planner

- Calendario a muro 2024

- Asciugamano per tè

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Anti-Hero" November Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di novembre, con una scelta di edizione speciale molto interessante!

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "STARLING HOUSE" BY ALIX E. HARROW

TRAMA:

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot.

Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.

If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.

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- Gideon La Nona Bookends

- Borsa piegabile "Night Market"

- Tazza di Rosie Thorns

- Ornamento "Bone Dog"

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Fairytale Forests" October Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di ottobre, con un libro a tema dark fairytales, proprio come Fairyloot.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "AFTER THE FOREST" BY KELL WOODS

TRAMA:

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power.

1650: The Black Forest, Wurttemberg.

Fifteen years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people recovering in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, the witch's grimoire, secreted away and whispering in her ear, and the recipe inside that makes the most sinfully delicious - and addictive - gingerbread.

As long as she can bake, Greta can keep her small family afloat. But in a village full of superstition, Greta and her intoxicating gingerbread is a source of ever-growing suspicion and vicious gossip.

And now, dark magic is returning to the woods and Greta's own powers - magic she is still trying to understand - may be the only thing that can save her ... If it doesn't kill her first.

A stunning meld of love story, fairytale, magic and history, by an exciting debut Australian voice - perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Bridget Collins and Kate Forsyth

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- Nightfell Replica ispirata dell'omonima spada in The Cruel Prince

- Post-it in versione booktabs

- Diario

- tappetino per scrivania

Illumicrate Unboxing | "My Last Breath" September Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di settembre, con un libro che ho amato davvero.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "A STUDY IN DROWNING" BY AVA REID

TRAMA:

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. She’s had no choice. Since childhood, she’s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She’s found solace only in the pages of Angharad - author Emrys Myrddin’s beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, and then destroys him.

Effy’s tattered, dog-eared copy is all that’s keeping her afloat through her stifling first term at Llyr’s prestigious architecture college. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to design the late author’s house, Effy feels certain this is her destiny.

But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty, decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea. And when Effy arrives, she finds she isn’t the only one who’s made a temporary home there. Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar, is studying Myrddin’s papers and is determined to prove her favorite author is a fraud.

As the two rival students investigate the reclusive author’s legacy, piecing together clues through his letters, books, and diaries, they discover that the house’s foundation isn’t the only thing that can’t be trusted. There are dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin.

|  OGGETTI LIBROSI:  |

- Bookpot rosa pastello ispirata ai romanzi rosa gotici

- Puzzle ispirato da "If We Were Villains" di ML Rio

- Magnete ispirato a Belladonna di Adalyn Grace

- Presina per tazze a tema floreale

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Hidden Magic" August Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di agosto; l'edizione sarebbe stata da dieci se non fosse stata una B-Hardcover.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "ZHARA - GUARDIANS OF DAWN" BY S. JAE-JONES

TRAMA:

Magic flickers.
Love flames.
Chaos reigns.

Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before.

Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about—appease her stepmother’s cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts under control—without having to deal with rumors of monsters re-emerging in the marsh. But when a chance encounter with an easily flustered young man named Han brings her into contact with a secret magical liberation organization called the Guardians of Dawn, Zhara realizes there may be more to these rumors than she thought. A mysterious plague is corrupting the magicians of Zanhei and transforming them into monsters, and the Guardians of Dawn believe a demon is responsible.

In order to restore harmony and bring peace to the world, Zhara must discover the elemental warrior within, lest the balance between order and chaos is lost forever.

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- Tazza dedicata al Priorato dell'Albero delle Arance di Samantha Shannon

- Segnalibri con i sei personaggi principali di The Mortal Instruments

- Washi-Tapes in stile floreale

- Scatola metallica a forma del "Book of Eyes" di Sorcery of Thorns

Illumicrate Unboxing | "You Win or You Die" July Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di luglio; box nella media, ma poteva essere molto migliore.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE JASAD HEIR" BY SARA HASHEM

TRAMA:

Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic outlawed; its royal family murdered down to the last child. At least, that’s what Sylvia wants people to believe.

The lost Heir of Jasad, Sylvia never wants to be found. She can’t think about how Nizahl’s armies laid waste to her kingdom and continue to hunt its people—not if she wants to stay alive. But when Arin, the Nizahl Heir, tracks a group of Jasadi rebels to her village, staying one step ahead of death gets trickier.

In a moment of anger Sylvia’s magic is exposed, capturing Arin’s attention. Now, to save her life, Sylvia will have to make a deal with her greatest enemy. If she helps him lure the rebels, she’ll escape persecution.

A deadly game begins. Sylvia can’t let Arin discover her identity even as hatred shifts into something more. Soon, Sylvia will have to choose between the life she wants and the one she left behind. The scorched kingdom is rising, and it needs a queen.

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- Asciugamano con fanart di Katniss Everdeen da Hunger Games

- Gioco di carte "Indovina i personaggi"

- Tazze ispirate da "A Magic Steeped In Poison"

- Sacchetto porta-tarocchi

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Night & Day" June Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di giugno; edizione meravigliosa, oggetti ok.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE SUN & THE VOID" BY GABRIELA ROMERO-LACRUZ

TRAMA:

Reina is desperate.

Stuck living on the edges of society, her only salvation lies in an invitation from a grandmother she’s never known. But the journey is dangerous, and prayer can’t always avert disaster.

Attacked by creatures that stalk the region, Reina is on the verge of death until her grandmother, a dark sorceress, intervenes. Now dependent on the Doña’s magic for her life, Reina will do anything to earn—and keep—her favor. Even the bidding of an ancient god who whispers to her at night.

Eva Kesare is unwanted.

Illegitimate and of mixed heritage, Eva is her family’s shame. She tries her best to be perfect and to hide her oddities. But Eva is hiding a secret: magic calls to her.

Eva knows she should fight the temptation. Magic is the sign of the dark god, and using it is punishable by death. Yet, it’s hard to deny power when it has always been denied to you. Eva is walking a dangerous path, one that gets stranger every day. And, in the end, she’ll become something she never imagined

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- Sottobicchieri decorati con sole e luna

- Ciotole in ceramica ispirate al dualismo tra luce e buio

- Charm per decorare le scarpe

- Federa double-face 

Illumicrate Unboxing | "What Lies Beneath" May Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di maggio; non mi ha fatto impazzire onestamente ma c'era decisamente di peggio.

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "WITCH KING" BY MARTHA WELLS

TRAMA:

A story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose.

"I didn't know you were a... demon."
"You idiot. I'm the demon."
Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' Witch King....

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.

But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?

Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.

He’s not going to like the answers.

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- Book Organizer ispirato da Daughter of Smoke and Bone di Laini Taylor

- Vaso in ceramica ispirato a House of Hollow

- Magnete per telefono ispirato a The Whispering Dark

- Segnalibro metallico decorato con una balena

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Be My Enemy" April Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di aprile, arrivatami negli scorsi giorni. Siete pronti a vedere quanto poco mi è piaciuta?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "SOME DESPERATE GLORY" BY EMILY TESH

TRAMA:

While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

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- Replica della spada "Damaris" di Throne of Glass

- Portaspille ispirato alla famiglia Farseer di Robin Hobb

- Kit Papercraft tratto da "The Poppy War" di RF Kuang

- Bicchiere ispirato a "Iron Widow" di Xiran Jay Zhao

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Live like Legends" March Box

Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di marzo, arrivatami settimana scorsa. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "LIES WE SING TO THE SEA" BY SARAH UNDERWOOD

TRAMA:

Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago.

But when that fate comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets a girl with green eyes and the power to command the sea. A girl named Melantho, who says one more death can stop a thousand.

The prince of Ithaca must die—or the tides of fate will drown them all.

Sarah Underwood weaves an epic tapestry of lies, love, and tragedy, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Alexandra Bracken, and Renée Ahdieh.

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- Stickers ispirati alla mitologia greca

- Teiera anch'essa ispirata alla mitologia greca (in particolare a Zeus, Ade e Poseidone)

- Contenitore in ceramica (Bookpot) simil-libro, anch'esso ispirato alla mitologia greca

- Lunch Bag ispirata al mito di Ade e Persefone.

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Into the Fire" February Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di febbraio, arrivatami giusto venerdì. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "SONG OF SILVER, FLAME LIKE NIGHT" BY AMELIE WEN ZHAO

TRAMA:

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past – and the demons that sleep at its heart…
Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died.

No one can see the mysterious mark, an untranslatable Hin character, except Lan. Until the night a boy appears at the teahouse and saves her life.

Zen is a practitioner – one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with. Magic believed to be long lost. Magic to be hidden from the Elantians at all costs.

Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten. Both hold the power to liberate their land. And both hold the power to destroy the world.

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- Charm per zip ispirata da Legendborn

- Booksleeve ispirata al tema del mese

- Luce a forma di libro ispirata da Daughter of The Moon Goddess

- Water Bottle ispirata al tema del mese

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Better Together" December YA Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di dicembre, arrivatami giusto oggi. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE" BY ALIETTE DE BODARD

TRAMA:

Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and herself.

Rice Fish: sentient ship, leader of the infamous Red Banner pirate fleet, wife of the Red Scholar. Or at least, she was the latter before her wife died under suspicious circumstances. Now isolated and alone, Rice Fish wants Xích Si's help to find out who struck against them and why. Marrying Xích Si means Rice Fish can offer Xích Si protection, in exchange for Xích Si's technical fluency: a business arrangement with nothing more to it.

But as the investigation goes on, Rice Fish and Xích Si find themselves falling for each other. As the interstellar war against piracy intensifies and the five fleets start fighting each other, they will have to make a stand-and to decide what kind of future they have together...

An exciting space opera and a beautiful romance, from an exceptional SF author...

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- Tazza di The Song of Achilles di Madeline Miller

- Pin ispirata a The Jasmine Throne di Tasha Suri

- Calendario 2023 libroso... adorato!

- Portagioielli ispirato a Crescent City di Sarah J. Maas.

Illumicrate Unboxing | "Some Kind of Monsters" YA November Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di novembre, arrivatami giusto oggi. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE LUMINARIES" BY SUSAN DENNARD

TRAMA:

In Hemlock Falls, when nightmares rise, only the Luminaries stand between humanity and these monsters bent on devastation. Winnie Wednesday knows the only way to redeem her disgraced family is to pass the Luminary trials, but when she encounters an unknown monster, she realizes she must also protect Hemlock Falls and her heart from a former friend with secrets of his own.

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- Tea Pot ispirato a Only A Monster di Vanessa Len

- Sciarpa ispirata alla Winternight Trilogy di Katherine Arden

- Replica della spada del Priorato di Samantha Shannon

- Tote Bag ispirata ad A Deadly Education di Naomi Novik

- Papercraft Kit ispirato a Ninth House di Leigh Bardugo

Illumicrate Unboxing | "From Beyond Death" YA October Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di ottobre, arrivatami qualche settimana fa. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE WHISPERING DARK" BY KELLY ANDREWS

TRAMA:

Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents.

Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows.

Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton -- she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming -- yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them -- and their forbidden partnership -- apart. 

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- Coperta dedicata a Strange The Dreamer di Laini Taylor

- Tazza con raffigurati Ade e Persephone

-  Piattino con disegni che rievocano il mito di Ade e Persefone

Il tema del prossimo mese è Some kind of Monsters e so già che al suo interno ci sarà un'edizione esclusiva di The Luminaries di Susan Dennard, un libro che punto dal suo annuncio di pubblicazione

Siete pronti?

Feeling Bookish | Illumicrate

Buongiorno a tutti cari booklovers, oggi parleremo di Illumicrate, uno store di bookish box inglese che io adoro, secondo solo alla Fairyloot.

In ogni box c'è un edizione speciale di un libro più dei gadget librosi. I temi variano di m ese in mese, ed io ne sono davvero appassionata.

Voi seguite la Illumicrate? Se sì, cosa ne pensate?

 

Illumicrate Unboxing | Book Devourers YA September Box

 Ciao a tutti booklovers, oggi andiamo a spacchettare l'Illumicrate di settembre, arrivatami qualche settimana fa. Siete pronti?

 BOOK OF THE MONTH: "THE BOOK EATERS" BY SUNYI DEAN

TRAMA:

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

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- Cards dedicate alla TBR 

- Portapenne in ceramica a forma di libro

- Porta-libri in tela 

- Due piatti 

Il tema del prossimo mese è Beyond the Death e mi ispira tantissimo! (avrà due libri al suo interno e uno dei due è descritto come un gothic fantasy - romance)

Siete pronti?