 Hello! Oh shut up! Today I'm very excited to be doing a double unboxing with the December Illuma Crate box. I am shocked. This is bulging. Can you stop insinuating things please? And then I have been waiting to open this for like a week and it's been very hard. We've got the special edition daughter smoke and bone box on Instagram and Twitter and stuff. I'm just saying this is like their favourite box yet. Like ever. That it's got the best stuff ever in it. So there's a lot of pressure. I am very very excited. I have Richard Chainsha Dreamer by Lainey Taylor but I haven't read Dora's smoke and bone so I'm really excited to have these special editions and we're going to open both boxes and we're going to compare them a bit and see which one I would recommend you buy whether you can buy their special editions in the future or their monthly boxes because I'm very lucky that I get sent this stuff but not many other people do and before I was being sent it it wasn't something I could afford because I'm a poor student with not a lot of money. So I want to be able to advise you like what to spend your money on and what's worth it. Now Illuma Crate I've only had one of their boxes before but I loved it so I'm very excited. Let's just get into it because I've been rambling. I do have a code with them. I'll put it up on the screen. I believe it is Meg with Books 5 but I always forget this stuff. Like I'm really bad. But I believe it is Meg with Books 5. Oh I don't know what to look at first. Ah! Girl I just can't take this. It's too much. I don't want! So we have got a really lovely book sleeve with an art on one side and then it's got a quote on the other side that says something was starting to take shape out of magic and will smoke and bone. Magic and will smoke and bone. Okay I didn't say that very well. I love books these very much although I do prefer when they zip at the top because I like when I'm travelling to store things like bookmarks in them and you can't really do that if it's got an open top. But it's just like kind of like a pleathery one I'm guessing. Very pretty. You are absolutely right. Artwork by Mono Lime and quote designed by Chati Nora. Next what are these? This is like a book tin that you can kind of put on your shelf and store stuff in. Oh my god this is amazing. This is big. I've got a big head. Let it be known. I would like to defend myself but sadly that's the truth. And it's got this beautiful artwork on both sides and then it's got a bit of spine design on it as well. It looks like stained glass windows. That is so cute. Oh my god this makes me so excited to read this series. This is going to be one of my top series to read next year so let me know if you've enjoyed it. Artwork by Rosie Thorns 88. So this is the kind of thing that's going to look really nice on bookshelves or just anywhere in general and that you can store stuff in. Because I have a lot of shit I need to shove away. Oh hello. Those two items I'm shook because they're both like star of the show items and this looks big so I'm like how many star of the show items are we going to have? Oh these are bookends. We have got these bookends and it says the quote on it once upon a time an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. They've got these like wing designs on them and there's like city landscapes and eyes and teeth and hands and swords. That is so cute. Wow that's really nice. That's another like high value item. Do I mean like you're getting a lot of really good good stuff in this box? I'm kind of in love. Oh these are designed by NoFrontail. Fluttering Dreams inspired by Strange the Dreamer. Okay I've read that. Oh yes here we go. Ah shit here we go again. Another high value item. What? We've got a mug ladies and gentlemen. One of my favorite items. Book sleeves and mugs and like a bath bomb or a candle. One of my favorite book box items. Oh no you're going to be crying. Thinking about Strange the Dreamer just makes me want to stop. Okay so this is a gorgeous mug. Oh my god that is a beautiful beautiful mug and it's big as well. Like it's a good size. Like sometimes I've gotten mugs and they're kind of like that big and I'm like listen I drink a lot. I need a lot. I need a bigger mug. This is designed by Rosythorns88. What is that? So throw three bottles. If you're keeping souls safe until they can be resurrected right I'm just going to accept I don't know what this is. I think this is more for fans of the book. Like if you're a big fan of the book this would be something amazing but I ain't read it yet. Is that something I should know what it is and I seem really dumb? Yes it is and yes you do because you literally went to church every Sunday growing up and saw the new idiot. Oh not to go that hard. Okay look at this print. That is so pretty. Oh my god I'm so excited to read this book now. Look how gorgeous all of those people are. They are very pretty people. Ford print designed by Mer Wilde featuring the moon characters of the book. I love like the purple and gold. I completely vibe with that. And then I think we've got one more item before we look at the book. So we have got a wishbone enamel pin designed by Stacy McAvoy-Cornes so it's got a quote on it. It says it snaps the world in two. That's cute. Enamel pins live here. I just have them on the bookshelf here. I don't wear them. So they're like always in book boxes but I don't wear them. So they just sit on my bookshelf and look cute. And then let's look at the book. Oh my god that is so beautiful. I love the cover redesign. Like I'm kind of obsessed. I'm kind of obsessed. She's incredible. She's a beautiful person. Her talent and brilliance is beyond. Okay we've got another quote on the front. It says she had been an innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now. And then oh my god. We have this beautiful, beautiful art print on the inside of the dust jacket. That is stunning. Like that has got such a high, high level of detail to it. This book looks like a gag. Like I need to read this right now. This book looks incredible. Look at all of that detail. That is an absolutely beautiful, beautiful edition. I'm so shook. I'm so shook. Okay well I loved this box. These are bloody eyes on these high quality goods. I am shook at how many high value items you get in this box. Like you get the book sleeve, you get the mug, you get this amazing book tin. You get this massive book tin and you get the book ends. Like to me they are the really big items and to get four of them I'm shook. My favourite item is probably either the book sleeve or the mug because it's Change the Dreamer and I have read Change the Dreamer but you get a lot of really great quality items with this. So this makes me want to get special editions more just in general. I don't tend to get them because they are pricey but I think you're really, as well as getting like an amazing special copy of a book, you're getting so many great items as well and I think that's something people forget about when they're like buying a special edition is all the amazing items you get and that's why it's so much fun to get them for books you love because you get items for something you love, you know that are linked to it. Like I think I love the mug so much because I've read the book whereas the other items are a little lost on me. I think I would love them even more had I read the book. That was an amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing box. Amazing box. Success! Let's now get into the December box. This is exciting to me because I don't know all the book is, like that's always my favourite part is finding out the book, oh my god there is so much in this box, right let's go. So our theme this month is a legacy to protect. Oh my god we've got another mug! I'm really happy with what I'm seeing. I love mugs so much okay what is this going to be? Oh my god that is beautiful oh my gosh look at this I'll be showing you a close-up right now and like don't you die? Like it's so pretty what is this from? Oh it's inspired by the David Bad Trinidad by S.H.A.Craborty I really want to read that but I'm like I'm trying to not even think about it until I've finished series I'm currently reading. Like there's a lot of series out there I want to read but I just I pretend I do not see it. I pretend I do not see it because I can't be wanting to read all these books. Like I can't. I've got to finish the ones that I have started first or own and again good size that's the size I want to see. That's the size I want to see. Oh we've got another enamel pin by Stacey McAvoy-Caunt. This one is inspired by the Ravens and it says Queen of Cups and I assume that's Queen of something else the stars they're like tarot cards very cute again it will sit here. I don't have much use for them but I do really enjoy them. Oh they are after my own heart. You naughty naughty you teasing me you naughty naughty. Poppy wall get out I love the Poppy wall oh my god so exciting. So this is a desk pad and it has a quote on it saying destiny is a myth destiny is the only myth the gods choose nothing you choose inspired by the poppy wall and it's got all the days of the week a TBR and a to-do list. This could become my weekly to-do list at the moment I like have a printable I just print out of the internet every week but this is like exactly the format I need. That's so nice I'm so excited to have an item for a book I've actually read because it doesn't always happen that really that's like after my own heart like to-do lists like I haven't done a task if I haven't ticked it off a to-do list like that is exactly what I want to see. What is this? History hub bet we could make some. This is a photo print album that says on it history hub bet we could make some which is a quote from Red, White and Royal Blue which I have read but unfortunately I didn't like it. This may be something I'd re-gift to someone who really loves Red, White and Royal Blue because there's like a million people out there who love it and I am just the person who trash talks it all the time but it is cute. The one thing I would say is that it looks very pixelated like I wish they had used a higher res picture this is probably for some kind of reason but like it looks very blurry and pixelated because the image was too small so I just wish it looked a bit cleaner in that sense but it's cute but like I said there's probably someone out there who would love to have this one of my friends and I'll probably just re-gift it at some point when I can see people again because I haven't seen people in like a year. Not that I really saw people before that but I feel like I've got it in me now to see people. Lies, lies and more lies and lies on top of lies. Then we've just got two smaller items which I'll show you really quick. We have a nail file. What's this inspired by? Oh Avatar the Last Airbender. Oh like I hate how they feel. Oh my god. Oh my god my skin's coring. Like sorry I can't hold that up. I bite my nails still so let's just not talk about that. And then we have some framed photo magnets of it doesn't tell me who these people are. It just says the call clan. Am I supposed to know who those people are? I don't know. I hate to say it. I hope I don't sound ridiculous. I don't know who this man is. I mean he could be walking down the street. I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man. And then very luckily I did know this was coming. We have got two books this month so I'm very intrigued to see what they are. Let's start with the smaller one. I have no clue what these could be. Oh okay. So we have The Cousins by Karen M. McManus. I've always been intrigued by these because they're like YA murder mystery thrillers but I have never heard brilliant things about like one of us is lying, two of us can keep a secret, all of those. But this one has intrigued me. I think I almost requested this on NetGalley but then I know I never get around to things on NetGalley. The story family are the envy of their neighbors until it all falls apart. The four children are suddenly dropped by their mother with a single sentence. You know what you did. Come down. Come down. Years later they receive a mysterious invitation to spend the summer at their grandmother's resort. They have no choice but to follow their curiosity and meet the woman who's been such an enigma their entire lives. Very intriguing. Okay I feel like I could like this. I feel like it's gonna be a book that I pick up fairly soon because it is so short. It's just over 300 pages and it's kind of very accessible. It's got some lovely black sprayed edges and yeah I'm actually very excited for this. I'm happy that I've got my hands on one of these books without having to buy it myself so I can figure out if the author is actually for me or not. And then let's see what the main book is. Oh it's The Raven. I was not expecting that. By Cass Morgan and Danielle Page. Can we talk about pink sprayed edges? The gag. At first glance the sisters of the ultra exclusive Caperoni, the Ravens, seem like typical sorority girls. Ambitious, beautiful and smart. They're the most powerful girls on Wesley College's Savannah, Georgia campus. But the Ravens aren't just regular sorority girls. They're witches. Scarlett Winter has always known she's a witch and she's determined to be the sororities president just like her mother and sister before her. But if a painful secret from her past ever comes to life she would lose everything. Vivi Devereux has no idea she's a witch and she's never lived in one place long enough to make a friend. So when she gets a coveted bid to pledge the Ravens she vows to do whatever it takes to be part of the magical sisterhood. The only thing standing in her way is Scarlett who doesn't think Vivi is Raven's material. But when a wicked power rises on campus the girls will have to put their rivalry aside to save their fellow sisters. I'm intrigued. I do like the idea of like a sorority house. I don't think I've ever read something like that and I'm constantly saying I want more witchy stories. So in terms of which box I'd recommend more I think you get obviously you pay more with the exclusive edition boxes like the special edition boxes but I think it's worth the money because if you're buying that it's either a book that you love like a book that's really close to your heart or it's a series that you really really want to read and so you get items that go possibly with a book that you love. However I think if you like being surprised about what books you get and that's something you really enjoy like just getting a book and reading it straight away like completely out the blue I think that your monthly boxes are the better bet. I love that they gave us two books like I really appreciate getting two books because that's such good value for money. Like in terms of value for money getting these two books like this retails for $7.99 and this retails for $14.99. So like you're almost making all of your money back just on these. I would really recommend both. I think this has made me a lot more likely to buy special edition boxes in the future myself especially if it's for a series that I already love because I think it'd be so exciting to open it and get all those items or something you love with characters that you love. So if only McCrate do special editions in the future I think I'll definitely be getting them just because of how amazing the quality of the contents were but they pull it at the back every time and I'm really intrigued by both of these books. I think they're really interesting choices. So that was my unboxing. I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know down below if you got either of these boxes and what you thought of them and thank you so much for watching. I will see you very very soon. Bye!