I just finished reading it for the first time this weekend and was similarly disappointed! Agreed that it had so much potential but didn't love the execution. I struggled through the first 100 pages, devoured the next 300, then again struggled through the last 150. I thought the slow/rambling style worked for setting the mood and adding suspense as >!everyone's paranoia increased after Bunny's death!< but I was really unsatisfied with where it headed -- >!random incest? Richard is a creep for Camilla and Camilla loves Henry? Julian just disappearing?!< -- so I found my eyes starting to glaze over on the 100th description of fog and payphones and cigarettes waiting for it to end already.