Illumicrate
Fantasy
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang Full Box (Illumicrate 'Magic VS Science' exclusive)
$38.00
About the product
Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.
Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.
When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence.
Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback, signed by Molly X. Chang, and features:
- An exclusive cover
- Full colour printing on the hardback by Alyssa Winans
- Digitally printed fore-edge
- Illustrated endpapers, different front and back, by Hoàng L_p
- YA fantasy debut; first in a trilogy
- M/F main relationship; queer side characters; Chinese-inspired world; PoC viewpoint character
Items included in the box:
- Multi-fandom Science Fiction Bookcase jigsaw puzzle with art from Olivia Gibbs, designed by Chatty Nora
- Moths and Poppies reusable wash pads inspired by The Bone Season, designed by Carly Watts
- Choose Me bookmark tin inspired by Song of Silver Flame Like Night, designed by Adrianne @ Studio AO
- Botanical Constellation gardening gloves inspired by The Surviving Sky, designed by Whitebread Pattern
Photos by @lonely_reader
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