The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

Pretty solid far future hard science sci-fi about virtual reality, robots becoming sentient and a war for the future. To be honest, sometimes I got lost in the meta descriptions of things. And the ending had so many twists and turns, I got confused so now I have to read [b:The Corporation Wars: Insurgence|29467296|The Corporation Wars Insurgence (Second Law Trilogy, #2)|Ken MacLeod|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474613925s/29467296.jpg|49743793], the second book in the series, just to figure it out!

I couldn't get past the language, if that makes sense. I'm sure the story is good, so this review is really just for future me. The writing was heavy on the (I assume) Scottish slang and such, I couldn't keep up with what was happening barely 2 chapters in.

I don't mind slang especially localized slang, but I don't need to fall into the deep end of it, where I can't tell who's who, and what's what.