Pros and Cons

This blog assignment required a critique over the book Biological Inorganic Chemistry written by Ivano Bertini. This book was used during this spring semester of our Biological Inorganic Chemistry class, and contain several good qualities which made it very useful to understand things in the class. The points where I found the book to be beneficial and helpful was the tutorials which were located at the end of the book. These were very helpful because it gave me (the student) a brief background of some of the topics discussed in this class since my knowledge in this course is sparse.
In addition to this, I found the first three chapters easy to follow due to being short and to the point. I also liked how in each chapter Bertini gave a list of contents as well as in some chapters defining some words at the beginning which helped me with the in-depth information that was provided in each chapter.
However, some of the flaws I did see with this book is I feel that it is more designed for a graduate student who has a better understanding on these topics that are discussed in this book. Maybe if the chapters had been condensed this could have helped me in understanding the material provided. For readers like me more colored pictures and better explanations of these pictures/figures would have helped me in understanding the reading that was provided in the book.