The first half of this worked better than the second half. I was enjoying it at the beginning, I was intrigued by this puzzling Choi Gangwu person and the corporate shenanigans.

But the second half involves a lot of long character monologues - telling you what happened or explaining some plot. That’s always very awkward to read (or watch). I’d rather be involved in the stuff that I’m being told about - via other POVs or something. Or perhaps the story needed to slow down so that there was time to piecemeal this information. Or it was just too complex for the space given - which I did feel was part of the problem. The scope and the layers were a lot for 156 pages, and I got muddled. I couldn’t summarize the end of this book for you.

One of my favorites of this type of story is Cyteen by Cherryh. There are lots of layers, but it’s also very long.