So I had read Idoru (the second book in the Bridge Trilogy) when I was about 14 or 15. Now, at 22, I decided to start the series proper with reading Virtual Light.  I've been getting back into the cyberpunk genre, and thought why don't I read some from the guy who pretty much invented it.
Note: as far as I can tell, apart from some characters from the first book popping up, there isn't a super big connection between Idoru and Virtual Light.
I still find it kind of creepy how relatable this book is. It was written in the 90's, far before the technology talked about was a real thing. Things like VR were just imagination back then, but it is creepily accurate as to what we have now (about 30 years after the book was originally published).
I liked all of the characters, the story was easy to follow once you understood what was going on (Gibson really loves to throw you in with no context so you have to discover what things mean by inference and reading the story). It has the simple premise of Character B steals Important Item, Character A gets hired to go after them, hilarity (not really) persists. Like a lot of books I've read recently, the wrap up is meh. Like, the story does wrap up (in a kind of cliff hanger way), but it doesn't feel as satisfying as it should. The last pages of the second-to-last chapter just weren't satisfying. From what I remember from Idoru (which isn't a whole lot) apart from Character A 

a.k.a. Rydell

  you don't hear much about what happened to everyone else. 

I also had trouble rating this book. It's one of those reads that is really good, but does have some flaws and is written in Gibson's trademarked style (which can be annoying for some readers). A solid 4/5 seems like a good rating for this book however.