Status Updates From Echelon

So I remember randomly grabbing this book at the public library while I was in middle school and trying to read it. I got about this far and said "this is interesting but maybe I'll finish it later." In between then and now, I somehow got a hard copy of this book and its sequel and just now decided to go back and give it a shot.

It's okay so far, but there's a lottt of cringe. Mostly in the way it's written. Yeesh