Debt Collector: Season One

The collected edition of Quinn’s digital serial isn’t groundbreaking, but it is fast-paced and just original enough to make its trope-heavy plot more interesting than it should be. In a by-the-numbers near-future class-driven dystopia, Lirium is one of a handful of human beings called debt collectors, people with the power to drain someone’s potential future life force and to transfer that life to others. The government collects life from debt-ridden people to give to the entitled, while mobsters use debt collectors for generally sleazy purposes. Elena, an attractive prostitute with hidden depths (one of many neo-noir clichés), leads Lirium to discover that even the government side of collecting might be more than it seems. When he meets and falls for gorgeous collector Ophelia, he is quickly drawn even further into a conspiracy that involves the government and the mob. Quinn fills her book with plenty of violence and sex while dodging most questions about the science and setting. [em](BookLife) [/em]