Sankara Jayanth S’s Reviews > The Shape of Water > Status Update

It's suspenseful AF right now!!!

“It’s not even human,” he insists. Before he can escape, just as he’s turning away, he catches her signed reply and it feels as if those signs brand themselves into his back, right through his jacket, his muscle, his bone, deep enough that the words ache like a fresh wound, where they begin their itchy conversion into scars that he’ll be forced to read for the rest of his life: “NEITHER Are WE.”

Each time she slits packing tape, it’s like knifing open the belly of a doe. Inside these boxes are seventeen months of a different life. One that had knocked her off the well-trod path she’d been on since she was a little girl: dating, marriage, children, homemaking. Pulling items from those boxes—it’s like ripping organs from that other version of herself, that woman of ambition and energy and promise.

...... and rose Deus Brânquia, the Gill-god. There are illustrations in the book, pretty awesome.

Deus Brânquia, at last, rises from the shoal, the ancient eye of eclipse, the ocean scalping open the new world, the single-cell seethe, the species spit, the rivers the vessels to a heart, the mountain’s hard erection, the sunflower’s swaying thighs, the gray-fur mortification, the pink-flesh fester, the umbilical vine cording us back to the origin. It is all this and more.

I.. I.. What did I just read??!

I've not seen the movie, it won Oscars for the Best Picture and the Best Director categories. The director, Guillermo del Toro, is also the author of the book, I believe the book and the movie were developed simultaneously, the movie going public first and the book later.

Also, the cover is hauntingly beautiful!!! This book started off with quick, short chapters and I like it so far, exciting!