I listened to the audio version, and the narrator was pretty good. 

I was really enjoying this book right up until the end.  Maybe I’d rate this a little higher if there was another book. I would like to know what happens next. But I think this was intended to be a standalone novel. 

Also, all the characters are just really unlikable.

Some you kind of like at points. Flawed people just trying to make the best of their situation, but then they do some really awful things that just causes you to really lose all respect for them.  Paxton may be the one exception, but it really sad seeing what he went through and not really getting a good resolution for him

But maybe that’s the point late stage capitalism just brought out the worst in everyone and incentivized the wrong things. 

I am somewhat surprised I finished this at all, because this kind of dystopia feels hopelessly possible and normally I hate that. But I think I related to the tension in Paxton - fighting the corporation versus personal survival, hating the job but still wanting to do it well. I also found the perspective of Cloud's founder interesting, because he presented terrible ideas in a very reasonable way. (Zinnia's parts were interesting for the suspense, but I know too much about corporate espionage to fully suspend my disbelief.) It was a blend of horrifying and relevant - strange, sometimes uncomfortable, but thoroughly fascinating.