I kept waiting for this book to get less weird and it inexplicably failed to do so. I liked hte way the story unwound, the way it unsettled me and left me always wondering what was or was not true. What may or may not have happened. Egan could have, perhaps, been a bit defter about it, but I didn't mind the confusion.
The book did drag a little; there were moments when I felt as though the pacing should speed up, but it slowed to a crawl. Overall, though, it was a well crafted story-within-a-story and did a good job evoking what I can only call the post-modern gothic novel.