The first kiss doesn't even happen until the final third of the book and even then they don't immediately fall into bed.

None of the love scenes seemed gratuitous - and none take place until the last 25% of the book. In the same token, her love scenes are hot and passionate without sliding into pornographic smut. Tommy tells her, in a voice filled with anguish, that he wants her to stay with him, she reminds him that she will always be with him but what is left unspoken is that her presence may not always be a physical one. Throughout the film, she utters a single refrain: “Death is the road to awe.” While Tommy is single-mindedly focused on developing a drug to cure her brain cancer, Izzi wants him to walk in the snow and watch the stars.

Izzi gives us the opposite side of the coin: the desire to embrace nature, to see death as just another part of the human journey. Historically, this is a characteristic associated with masculinity, the old Cartesian dualism where mind exerts control over body, where man can shape and harness nature according to his will. As a scientist, Tommy represents the urge to control life: he wants to cure cancer, to stop aging, to bring an end to death and suffering. Tomas the Conquistador and Queen Isabella When it comes to themes, the battle between life and death, and the tension between acceptance of nature and control over nature, reign supreme.

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