Oddly-paced, with a lot of not much happening for a good long time. And I'm not sure about the placement of the climax, either.
The characters didn't seem to be particularly well-developed - a little flat, really.
Still, the underlying mystery was pretty interesting, and there was something about the writing that kept me going, even if the prose was kind of plain.

So, not bad, but definitely not worth the fuss being made over it...