Abigail Zuger writes a review on the book "Healing Spaces" by Dr. Esther Sternberg. Zuger spends the entire article explaining what the book is about (healing patients by setting them in a surrounding that pleases their brain) and even points out that the book uses Disneyland as an example of aesthetically pleasing spaces, but then she ends the review by writing that the book was boring and would only interest those who are scientific or already interested in this field of study.
The lede was very good. It was very descriptive of a person unhappy with one surrounding and magically better with a different one and did a good job pulling the reader in. I think book reviews are a very good example of a time to use an alternative lead because books are supposed to have a different type of style than newspaper or magazine articles and the alternative lede shows that different style.
One criticism I have is that Zuger fails to explain some of the long, scientific words that she uses. I understand they are the words used in Sternberg's book, but since they are now used in this article, they should be defined. Also, She spends the whole article explaining the book and building it up, just to end it with one paragraph saying how boring it is. I thought this last paragraph was not incorporated very well into the rest of the article and needed to be because now it just sounds like an afterthought.
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