Reviews for Modern cosmology

The average rating for Modern cosmology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-08-19 00:00:00 Qwe Asd This book irked me a little. I didn't like the way a lot of the characters behaved, and when they started behaving better, it got a little too sappy for me. Carly, the heroine, just had surgery that's given her vision after being blind all her life. Two weeks after the surgery, she goes to a bar and gets knocked up by Hank Coulter. She was told that getting pregnant right after the surgery would be very bad and now she's going to go blind again, can't afford to take care of the baby on the way, and her plans to go to grad school are ruined. Hank offers to marry her, she accepts, they slowly fall in love, blablabla... Everyone was so irresponsible in this book, Carly most of all, but she's portrayed mainly as a victim/martyr. It really annoys me that knowing she wasn't supposed to get pregnant, she still went to that cowboy bar and then had sex with a total stranger in the back of a truck. I don't care how vulnerable she was, it was stupid. Then when she realizes she's pregnant, she won't even consider abortion. Okay, it's a sensitive topic, but not only did she have no way of supporting a child, it was going to ruin her future. When an opportunity to salvage her future and take care of her kid half-presents itself in Hank trying to help, she pushes him away again and again until he finally has to blackmail her. I just can't stand Carly. In addition, most of the book is spent with everyone blaming Hank for getting her pregnant. She does eventually admit to bearing some of the blame, but it comes so late I can't give her much credit for it. For a character who's soooooo "strong-willed" and "independent" and all, it took her long enough to realize she had a little personal accountability for the situation.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-07-27 00:00:00 Todd Browm Wow....what a beautiful story. Hank is a 32 year old rancher who trolls a country western bar every weekend looking for the next one-night stand. He feeds women lines, uses them and then and disappears the next morning. His pick-up one drunken night is Carly, a 28 year old virgin who had a recent operation leading to temporary sightedness. Major consequences of his callous, deceitful approach result. I really enjoyed his growth, but major slut shaming during the book (virgins don't deserve such treatment but all other women are just "run of the mill" barfly types that have been "rode hard and put up wet" so are beneath him. After he sleeps with them, of course. And his dad "tossed a number of skirts" before meeting a "good" girl.). But then hero really does see how wrong he was and actually realizes that treating any woman that way was just wrong and diminished him. Very believable transformation and beautiful story about love (as action, not just words), honor, sacrifice, redemption and commitment. It's about those things in the way The Notebook ultimately is. And so beautifully written. How could it have been so heartfelt, poetic and heartwarming without being treacly? It just was....that's the author's talent. Loved the secondary characters, Carly's friend Bess, her dad (in the most poignant scene in the book) and Luke's family. I kept hearing his mom as the voice of Marion Cunningham from Happy Days!