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I read this Huxley book about a year ago and was just thinking about it recently. It is in some way a novel, but only in a vague approximation of what you'd expect of one. There isn't a whole lot of plot and what slim plot line there is seems mainly to exist as a broad enclosure or framework for Huxley's philosophical ideas. The peaceful island of Pala seems like a utopia and the people who live there have built up a perfect kind of pacifist existence, whereby they live in total isolation from the rest of the world in their own little peace and love bubble. Huxley, through very long dialogues between the characters, espouses his own philosophy of life which seems to be mainly concerned with mindfulness and being in the moment and peaceful living. These conversations are mainly really interesting but can get a bit tedious if you're not in the right mood for them. There is a bit of hallucinatory drug taking thrown in as well for good measure as a further way for the characters to seek enlightenment and quite a bit of touring about the island, finding out about what makes it so special and seemingly better than the outside world...
If you are after a riveting page turner with twists and turns, eroticism, adventure and general rambunctiousness, then this won't be floating your boat, but if you're in the mood for a slow, thoughtful sort of book where the ideas are put above plot and the characters are even secondary as well, then you might like this idealistic, intriguing and meditative last work by Aldous Huxley.