The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus

The Shape of Water is a magical story about so many individuals that just didn’t fit into the time or place they were born into and how each touched the others life. I thoroughly enjoyed this story. The prose is beautiful and it helped me connect to each of the characters in a different way.

The descriptions bring to mind the script of the film. But book is based on the movie of the same name an one of the authors is the movie director that way some similarities.
The authors created great stories, animpossible affair between a mute cleaner and a water god from the Amazon. The action takes place slowly, you can found this especially in chapters describing the hunt for a mythical creature. The atmosphere is stifling, psychodelic, the description is colored.

When authors write in Elisa POV's everything is change. We can see dichotomies between the image of the River God, what elisa sses him and how he appears ti the military or scientists.

This is a fantastic story of hope, doing the right thing and being okay with being different.
It showed how each of us might feel alone, but we are connected in so many little ways to so many people that you are never truly alone.