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First, it is better for an untrained person not to read the KCR at all. Not only will you not understand anything (100% guaranteed), there is a risk of moving your mind. This is serious.
Secondly, even for trained people, this is a very difficult text. In the 19th century, many educated people cried when they tried to study it, and some even shot themselves.
Yes, it's easy if you have a brain. But it is better to take notes and clarify your guesses(for example, on this service) among philosophers.
Actually, the book itself requires familiarity with Aristotelian dialectics(if you have taken a course in matlogics, then it will be difficult for you to accept that there the prohibition of contradictions at the level of statements does not work, only at the level of terms) and the works of Descartes, but if you have studied geometry straight for five, you will only need intuition. Descartes is a geometric method of proving the existence of a higher will, but KRCH develops this to a higher order.
I agree with the previous answer, it will be very difficult. And Prolegomains will be difficult.
Start with Bertrand our Russell's History of Western Philosophy.