Chilling Effect

 Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdez, 448 pages.

Captain Eva Innocente is working very hard to keep her crew afloat doing strictly legal jobs (which pay much worse than the illegal kind). This resolve is severely tested when her sister is kidnapped by a sprawling criminal organization called "The Fridge," who have a habit of putting their victims in cryostasis. Now Eva has to do a series of dangerous jobs to pay her sister's ransom with the complications multiplying by the day, so it's only a matter of time until something gives.

This book is pretty much unbridled fun. It reminds me of an old serialized adventure story. It's not a book that takes itself to seriously, and asks the reader not to take it too seriously either (this is really hammered home by the time you hit a live T-Rex soap opera). If you're willing to suspend pretty much all disbelief and go along for the ride it's a lot of fun, and I'm really looking forward to talking about it at Orcs & Aliens next week. (Although the psychic cats feature less than I had hoped)