Book review of The Debtors Game by Isabelle Mongeau (opens in new tab)

Twas in a café they first met, Romeo and Juliet. And twas the first day they fell into debt, because Rome-owed and Juli-eat. It feels to me that the entire system is rigged so that you never have quite enough money to escape, you work to live, and if you do not work, you do not eat. It is worse when you have dependents, you will sacrifice your own health and happiness to make another’s life easier. In Isabelle Mongeau’s debut fantasy The Debtor’s Game, your debts are magically tattooed onto y...