Illumicrate
Fantasy
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao full box (Illumicrate 'Fantasy Emporiums' Exclusive)
$38.00
About the product
An instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the 2025 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. . .
Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past?
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it.
Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop's new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it.
Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice – through rain puddles, hitching rides on paper cranes, across the bridge between midnight and morning and through a night market in the clouds.
But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own – and risk making a choice she will never be able to take back.
Step into the captivating and romantic fantasy novel that will sweep you away on an unforgettable adventure - perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli, Erin Morgenstern and Before the Coffee Gets Cold!
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (by @josee_smzk; design by @chattynora)
- Full colour printing and foil on the hardback (by @danlinz_art)
- Digitally printed edges (by @josee_smzk)
- Illustrated endpapers (by @hoanglapdoan); different front and back
- Digitally signed by the author
- Standalone adult fantasy debut
- Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour printing and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; digitally signed by the author.
- M/F main romance; PoC main characters; PoC side characters
Items included in the full box option:
- Midnight Bridge blanket inspired by Water Moon, featuring artwork by Danlin Zhang
- Poison Garden mini bud vases inspired by This Poison Heart, artwork by Cristina Panebianco
- Heart's Desire trivet inspired by Legends & Lattes, designed by Adrianne Bresijn
- Spindrift Tearoom tea strainer inspired by A Tempest of Tea, designed by Jane Tibbetts
Photos by @bookwormgram
'An engaging, dreamy fantasy with an atmosphere reminiscent of a Studio Ghibli production’ - The Guardian
'Water Moon is a dreamy, ethereal fantasy, set in a fascinating faerie tale world with appropriately dark corners. Fans of Hayao Miyazaki will love this one.' - Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul
About the Author
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