Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Published by Del Rey, 2014.

 

Binding completed in 2026. 

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Limited set of copies available - $1,300. Please contact me if interested. 

The use of an alternative textblock is possible if provided. 

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Materials

Bound in goat leather with laced in boards. The design features hand dyed onlays in goat and calf, foil tooling, and handpainted page edges. The endpages are bugra paper that have been painted with acrylic paint. 

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Design Statement

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“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”

 

For Red Rising, I kept coming back to the feelings of rage and vengeance vs. justice. The whole trilogy, but especially the first book, does an excellent job of looking at what rage does to a person and the result of seeking vengeance instead of justice.

The harsh slashing lines on the cover are there to represent the anger and frustration that has built up in Darrow. The gold page edges with red blood splatters show the violence and suffering of the Reds at the hands of the Golds. There's a red trail making its way through the splatters and that's the bloody path Darrow has been set upon and has ultimately claimed as his own.

Along the cover edges, gold and red dots mark the hierarchy that defines the world of the story. Gold sits at the top, where they've remained for centuries. Red gathers at the bottom, where they've been kept.

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Read about my design choices for the full trilogy here. 

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