This Lost Journal is essentially a small coffee table book that's made to look a cross between a diary and a scrap book. It's very pretty and any Indiana Jones fan will enjoy it immensely if they have no misconceptions about what it is.
What it is NOT is a diary prop. The simulated leather cover is nice enough, but the effect is spoiled by a colorful Indiana Jones logo that's printed on the spine and a very unauthentic sticker with the book's description glued firmly to the back. The book is replete with inserts -- photographs, news clippings, documents, maps, etc. -- but they are all printed, which gives it a very stylized appearance. Granted, actual loose inserts would have driven up the price significantly, but the kind of person who is likely to buy this would probably pay extra for the added realism. Many of the pages have an annotation (shaped like a business card) by "The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation". These annotations add nothing to the journal and the fact that they're written in English ruins any intended feeling that this is a recovered document. Clearly, writing them in Russian would have been useless for most people, so they should have just left them out and let the journal contents speak for themselves. Lastly, the contents themselves are just random snippets and souvenirs arranged chronologically. There's no sense of direction or purpose, which is what makes this a scrap book rather than a journal, despite the attempt to make it look like the latter.
Even with all these little complaints, it's a fun little toy and well worth the $25. In fact, it's cheap enough that one could buy a second copy to cut out various inserts to create or supplement a realistic Jones journal.