Once Upon a Book Club is unlike any of the book crates I've come across. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with Bark Boxes and Loot Crates, its a monthly subscription box, sent to your front door. I had previously seen book crates before where they send you a book and some random items based off the theme of the crate you're choosing. But with Once Upon a Book Club the items you're receiving are INTERACTIVE with the novel you're reading! Right away I want to give credit to the creator, the brain child behind this monthly subscription, is Michelle Wolett. She dreamed of a way to bring the book to life when you're reading along. The website says that each crate takes months of planning. They read through the books and pick out significant items or moments in the book that they can bring to life for the reader. For instance, if the character puts a necklace in an old tin, their goal is for you to be able to unwrap a necklace in a tin. I think that's such a unique idea and sounded really fun! AND each crate comes in a super cute book shaped box. It's actually really exciting looking out my front window and seeing this beautiful green book-shaped box. Inside each of these beautiful boxes is a novel, a booklet (I'll get to that), and handful of hand wrapped items each labeled with a number. As you read through the books there are sticky notes that say "open your gift", your job then is to look at the page number and match it to the package with that number on it. Now, the booklet I mentioned has "Read Along Dates" and "Discussion Question Dates". The first is where you can join them on their Facebook or Instagram pages for LIVE unboxing videos, they open each of the gifts on those dates. Their thought process is that this will give readers an opportunity to have a goal to read with, give them a chance to ask any questions, and an opportunity to meet other book-club members. The second list of dates have questions listed with them, much like when you're reading a book for school and they give you some thought provoking questions to ensure you've read the book. For anyone who enjoys discussing novels in book-clubs, this is for you! Important information you should know, there are two different clubs you can subscribe to. Young Adult and Adult (18+). Like most monthly subscriptions you can subscribe for a month at a time (it renews every month) or pay for three months at a time, and I believe the final option is to pay a year in advance. Now, that gets pricey, so personally I pay a month at a time, knowing that I can tell them to skip a month if I don't want it. The titles are kept a secret, which I kind of enjoy. But they said no fear, send them an email and they'll be happy to tell you the title in advance. The Adult subscription will receive books from the genres: Women's Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Historical Fiction. The Young Adult subscription will receive novels from the following genres: Fantasy, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Sci-Fi, and Mystery. These are so much fun, but if you have a reader that is ALWAYS looking for a new story to read, this may tickle their fancy. I highly recommend gifting this subscription, especially with Christmas RIGHT around the corner! There's something exciting about knowing there' s a package coming just for you, and even more exciting knowing that it's a read along gift. Your book worm is going to speed through the book dying to find a page with a gift number listed on it! Here's a link if you've heard all you need to hear and you want to register for a crate right now! But if you're like me, and a little bit weary about these crates, come back on December 8th for my two part review. I have two crates, that by the time you see this post, will be several months old. I am going to review the books, AND review whether the items that came with them really do match up with the story. After all subscription crates are expensive just to be let down. So stay tuned! Read on my fellow book worms, may we one day have Belle's Library. And as always links can be found down below. I will link their website and Facebook page and let you do some exploring while you wait for the next part of this review.
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