Red City

This listing is available only for The City Fling 2026 attendees. If you are not attending The City Fling 2026, please do not purchase this listing. Preorder Pick-Up Information:WHERE: You will pick up your preorder from The Bookish Box & Shop's booth at The City Fling.WHEN: Preorder pickup is available on Friday, June 12th, from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., and Saturday, May 13th, from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Any preorders not picked up by 2 P.M. on Sunday, June 13th, will be canceled, refunded, and the inventory will be put on sale for The City Fling attendees. We do not want to pay to ship anything home🫣😊HOW: When picking up your order, please have your order confirmation email ready to share with our team. If you are providing a screenshot of the confirmation email, please ensure your order number is shown in the screenshot. If you do not have your order confirmation email, you must have the order number and a photo ID that matches the name on the order. In collaboration with Marie Lu, The Bookish Box is thrilled to share the cover for our January Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition, Red City!Why we love Red City:🌙Mafia Meets Magic 🌙Childhood Friends-to-Enemies-to-????🌙Star-Crossed Romance 🌙Rival Alchemist Gangs🌙Alchemy Magic System Exclusive Luxe Edition details:🌆Foiled Author Signature @marieluthewriter🌆Author Letter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Bonus Chapter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Front Dust Jacket Artwork with Cold-Foiled Details and Spot-Glossed Details by @arvildon🌆Reverse Dust Jacket Artwork with Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by @im_arc_🌆Hard Case Artwork with Cold-Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists🌆Edges with Hidden Fore-Edge Artwork by @arvildon🌆Character Art Endpapers by @im_arc_ From our 2026 January Bookish Box.

This listing is available only for The City Fling 2026 attendees. If you are not attending The City Fling 2026, please do not purchase this listing. Preorder Pick-Up Information:WHERE: You will pick up your preorder from The Bookish Box & Shop's booth at The City Fling.WHEN: Preorder pickup is available on Friday, June 12th, from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., and Saturday, May 13th, from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Any preorders not picked up by 2 P.M. on Sunday, June 13th, will be canceled, refunded, and the inventory will be put on sale for The City Fling attendees. We do not want to pay to ship anything home🫣😊HOW: When picking up your order, please have your order confirmation email ready to share with our team. If you are providing a screenshot of the confirmation email, please ensure your order number is shown in the screenshot. If you do not have your order confirmation email, you must have the order number and a photo ID that matches the name on the order. In collaboration with Marie Lu, The Bookish Box is thrilled to share the cover for our January Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition, Red City!Why we love Red City:🌙Mafia Meets Magic 🌙Childhood Friends-to-Enemies-to-????🌙Star-Crossed Romance 🌙Rival Alchemist Gangs🌙Alchemy Magic System Exclusive Luxe Edition details:🌆Foiled Author Signature @marieluthewriter🌆Author Letter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Bonus Chapter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Front Dust Jacket Artwork with Cold-Foiled Details and Spot-Glossed Details by @arvildon🌆Reverse Dust Jacket Artwork with Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by @im_arc_🌆Hard Case Artwork with Cold-Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists🌆Edges with Hidden Fore-Edge Artwork by @arvildon🌆Character Art Endpapers by @im_arc_ From our 2026 January Bookish Box.

This listing is available only for The City Fling 2026 attendees. If you are not attending The City Fling 2026, please do not purchase this listing. Preorder Pick-Up Information:WHERE: You will pick up your preorder from The Bookish Box & Shop's booth at The City Fling.WHEN: Preorder pickup is available on Friday, June 12th, from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., and Saturday, May 13th, from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Any preorders not picked up by 2 P.M. on Sunday, June 13th, will be canceled, refunded, and the inventory will be put on sale for The City Fling attendees. We do not want to pay to ship anything home🫣😊HOW: When picking up your order, please have your order confirmation email ready to share with our team. If you are providing a screenshot of the confirmation email, please ensure your order number is shown in the screenshot. If you do not have your order confirmation email, you must have the order number and a photo ID that matches the name on the order. In collaboration with Marie Lu, The Bookish Box is thrilled to share the cover for our January Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition, Red City!Why we love Red City:🌙Mafia Meets Magic 🌙Childhood Friends-to-Enemies-to-????🌙Star-Crossed Romance 🌙Rival Alchemist Gangs🌙Alchemy Magic System Exclusive Luxe Edition details:🌆Foiled Author Signature @marieluthewriter🌆Author Letter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Bonus Chapter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Front Dust Jacket Artwork with Cold-Foiled Details and Spot-Glossed Details by @arvildon🌆Reverse Dust Jacket Artwork with Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by @im_arc_🌆Hard Case Artwork with Cold-Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists🌆Edges with Hidden Fore-Edge Artwork by @arvildon🌆Character Art Endpapers by @im_arc_ From our 2026 January Bookish Box.

DELUXE EDITION — a stunning hardcover edition featuring dark crimson sprayed edges. The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles. Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor’s edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city—and the paths of their lives—will be irrevocably transformed. The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates' brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition becomes power, loyalty becomes lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war.

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping first book in the New Alchemists duology from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six and V.E. Schwab's Villains trilogy, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles. Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world's elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor's edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city—and the paths of their lives—will be irrevocably transformed. The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates' brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition becomes power, loyalty becomes lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war.