I had the opposite experience. Really struggled with reading it. Switched to the audiobook and enjoyed it a lot more. The voice acting really brought the characters and atmosphere to life for me and enabled me to pay more attention to what was going on. I listened to the version narrated by Robertson Dean and think he did a great job.

I think this book needs at least two passes because there's a lot of in-universe jargon to pick up and for me it really only began to fall into place towards the end half. I also asked ChatGPT to summarise each chapter for me after I'd read it - that really helped me fill in the gaps of what I'd missed or misunderstood. In addition, I had it generate me a spoiler-free glossary of all the main terminology used in the book.