FairyLoot - August 2018 Box

Theme: Mutinous Pirates

Items:

• ‘Why is the Rum gone?’ Water Bottle by KDP Letters
• Prince Elian Candle by Nerd Poured Candles
• Pirate Wax Seal by FairyLoot
• Sweet Peat Sugar Scrub Soap by Geeky Clean
• ‘Impossible’ Hanging Flag by Reverie and Ink
• Pirate Magnet by Miss Phi
• These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch
• Exclusive King of Scars Sampler/Poster

Review: 
So the theme was Mutinous Pirates so basically anything pirate. I’ve loved pirates for as long as I can remember and I’m quite a fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that the first item was based on. 

I bought this box because I love pirates and even though I’ve not read any pirate books I thought this box would be a great way into that genre. This was because the box was advertised that even if you read none of the books you should still enjoy the items. This gave me hope and that hope was correctly placed because it ended up being a great box. 

I would say so far this box has definitely been the most value for money. Although I loved my March box, as I read all the books that the items were themed on, this box was just so much better quality and usability. There seemed to be a lot in this box, a lot of very decent items and the book itself was worth £17 not including the added touches so I can definitely say I got my money worth.

The first item I saw when I opened the box was the ‘Why is the Rum gone?’ Water Bottle and instantly knew this was the Pirates of the Caribbean themed item. The quote on the bottle is actually “Why is the Rum always gone”, which is a quote from the second movie Dead Man’s Chest. This was my favourite item in the box, so much so that it was right next to me as I write this blog post at work. I’ll be using it everyday with the irony of having water in it rather than rum, the rum is always gone. I love the design of this bottle, simple and rustic. It’s a nice size bottle for gripping when exercising. Under the lid there seems to be a removable filter in case you wanted to add fruit to your water.

As pretty much always there was a candle in the box. This candle was white with gold sparkles on top, it looked very pretty and was much better than the Goblet of Fire candle from the March 2018 box. The scent was sea mist and musk, the perfect combination for a pirate. This candle I think is an acquired taste smell wise, I happen to love it. To me it smells a lot like a nice bottle of men’s aftershave. So I very much enjoyed burning it. The candle was based on To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo and I look forward to reading the book someday.

The most unexpected item was the pirate wax seal. It’s such a beautiful designed item and I hope one day I will be able to use it. Thinking of maybe using it on Christmas cards or birthday party invites. Even though I don’t have use for a wax seal, I love the concept of it and just find it amazing to have. I’m quite a history nerd so it fits me well.

Another common item like the candle is soap. This time the soap was a Sugar Scrub Soap. Now I have really bad eczema so I can’t use soap but I know FairyLoot don’t know that so I’m not gonna complain about them putting it in their boxes. I still appreciate the soap and it smelt of sweets to me. I don’t let the soaps go to waste, I get my sister to use them and she loved it.

The ‘Impossible’ Hanging Flag I loved instantly. I loved rolling it out like it was a scroll and hung up on my bookcase. The quote is from the Grishna series and it reads ‘When people say impossible they ussually mean improbable.’ Now you may notice there’s a spelling mistake, usually is spelt wrong. I didn’t even realise this till I read my emails and saw that they’re sending a replacement out to fix it, I had to search through my box to figure out which had the error. I’m going to keep it hanging till the replacement arrives. I like the simple design of it and it is a good quote. The July box that Sammie reviewed also had an item with a typo that is getting replaced. I hope that FairyLoot will stop making this error, as it’s just disappointing.

A nice small item included was a magnet, my family and I collect fridge magnets mainly from around the world but we still love this one. It’s already on the fridge and it too has a great quote: ‘Oh the Ridiculous things one has to do when one is a Pirate’. Lovely little magnet.

The box also contained a bonus item, this was a poster/sampler of the upcoming King of Scars. I’ve decided to not read the sampler as it’s a sequel series to the Grishna books that I haven’t read yet. Trying to avoid spoilers but I did hang the poster. I’m not the biggest fan of the poster as I don’t like the quality of it. It’s just paper basically and I’m use to proper posters. What I really don’t like is the text on it though. I would have preferred a quote as the text. Nevertheless it helps make my walls look less bare and fits nicely next to my book case and lizard.

Finally the book, this month’s book was These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch. It’ll be a while yet till I get round to reading it but when I do I will make sure to upload a review of it. The book was hardback which I always prefer and it had the edges sprayed bright green. I love the colour green and it went really nice with the black cover. Inside the book was signed by the author. It looks like a great book and hopefully I will read it soon.. 

This was an amazing box so I’m glad I took the gamble with buying a box with items based on books I’ve never read. I look forward to my September box arriving. That theme is Starcrossed Swoons, and this time I have read some of the mentioned books. Expect a review from that soon.

Rating: 4.5 runes out of 5

Check out my review of These Rebel Waves (tbc)
Check out my September FairyLoot review: Starcrossed Swoons

written by Lauren