I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” -Diana Wynne Jones

I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much.

“It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers. “Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb.” -Robert Jordan Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don’t mess with the secretary. On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp-an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future-attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove-he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs.Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death.

CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold