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| The Debt Collector by Rachel Ann Hubert |
Book title:
The Debt Collector
Author:
Rachel Ann Hubert
Genre:
Fantasy
Published: December
21, 2022
371 pages
My rating:
4/5
Evening
had fallen, and I was already running late. I hurried past a mess of
ivy-covered stone shops, their windows boarded up with roughly cut black wood
from the forest to the east. I followed a path that seemed to narrow as I drew
further in, carefully hurrying as I darted down a slope in the road that took
me deeper into the city.
I
glanced at my wrist and winced when I saw the flashing red coordinates.
Not much
further now.
Poverty and
desperation reign in Adelliah’s world. Like many people, she has made a deal
with a money lender. The loan terms are generous: a lifetime to repay what was
borrowed. But if a person dies before the loan is repaid, it’s Adelliah’s job
as a debt collector to make sure that the loan doesn’t go unpaid. Her job is to
collect the dead people’s souls to pay for their debts. Until one night,
someone collects the soul first, and she must find out who did it and why.
The Debt
Collector is an
indie book and the first volume in Rachel Ann Hubert’s fantasy series Rise of
the Tarnished. I was expecting a gritty urban fantasy-esque story, but this book wasn’t exactly what I expected. The first chapters focus
on Adelliah’s work as a debt collector in several cities of the fantasy world.
(As a sidenote, I wish the book would have had a map. There were quite a few
different places to keep track of.) I really enjoyed these urban settings and
the new characters Adelliah meets along the way.
