Wow! This is one of those books that I just can't believe took me this long to pick up and read. I am waiting for a book that I ordered to come in, so I figured I'd just pick this one up in the meantime, and I read it in a day! I absolutely LOVE the vintage photographs that Ransom Riggs used in the book. I have picked up a few photo albums from estate sales, and cannot get enough of poring over the pictures! It also helped that the story was very well put-together; the characters all developed really well, the plot was perfect, and just the right element of mystery. It must have been such a fun challenge as an author to sit in front of a stack of these creepy/weird/interesting/amazing photos and figure out how to work all of them into a story! 
 I guess in the long run it works out that it took me this long, because it means that I don't have to wait as long for the sequel! (Also, picking up his cultural study book, "Talking Pictures" today because I love that someone has collected these wonderful photographs and given us a book full of them!)