This is well construction and fairly pleasant to read, but has a problem a lot of survey science textbooks have. Several years of surface science experience made the textbook much more understandable, and I found I liked the textbook much more as a reference when I was already experienced. However, I feel a survey textbook should be able to function as an introduction, and this one required a certain level of comfort with the jargon and ways of thinking unique to surface science in order to start feeling accessible.

That said, I have read some truly horrendous science textbooks in my day. So, bear in mind that I mean this critique mildly. It wasn't incomprehensible, but it didn't do what I'd hoped in terms of pedagogy either.