Book completed

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Cryoburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Vorkosigan Saga #14 (internal order). If you've read it before, Cryoburn can be hard to read again because of the ending (which is otherwise unrelated to the book's plot). I read it anyway. Miles has been assigned to investigate something suspicious on a planet where much of the economy revolves around cryogenic freezing of people who have just died or are about to die, with of course the intention of reviving them later. At the beginning of the book, he's disoriented and on his own, deep within the cryochambers, emerging to be rescued by a boy, Jin Sato, who collects interesting animals. Meanwhile, Mile's armsman, Roic, and colleague, Raven Durona, have been kidnapped by reasonably non-violent radicals. They all need to reconnect and figure out what's going on. It's a fine and interesting story, but that ending is still a gut-punch.