System Collapse

Didn't get moving really until mid-way thru and I'm seriously confused about which characters are which? There are several I have no memory of even those I've read all the previous books. It'd be nice if she had a prologue giving a summary of people and goings-on from the prior chapters/novellas in every novella.

Rather than reading all prior books multiple times, I'm going to way for the next 2-3 novellas to come out, which is years down the road.