The Shape of Water Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
261

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus Book Summary

The 2018 Academy Award's Best Picture of the Year and New York Times-bestselling novel, The Shape of Water.

From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus comes this haunting, heartbreaking love story.

"[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines." —Booklist

It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day.

Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions…and Elisa can’t keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live.

But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.

Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release—one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of literature and film—The Shape of Water is unlike anything you’ve ever read or seen.

“Most movie novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel that’s accompanying Guillermo del Toro’s new movie The Shape of Water is no mere adaptation. Co-author Daniel Kraus’ book and the film tell the same story, of a mute woman who falls in love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature, in two very different ways.” —io9

Praise for The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro

Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Director

Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Music (Original Score)

Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Production Design

Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture

"With encouragement from critics and awards voters, discerning viewers should make Fox Searchlight’s December release the season’s classiest date movie—for perhaps the greatest of The Shape of Water’s many surprises is how extravagantly romantic it is.” —Variety

"A visually and emotionally ravishing fantasy that should find a welcome embrace from audiences starved for imaginative escape.” —The Hollywood Reporter

Awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 74th Annual Venice International Film Festival

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Book Name The Shape of Water
Genre Fiction & Literature
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 15.56 MB

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus) Book Reviews 2024

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Don’t bother.. Stupidest movie ever. Who cares about the characters. Or the plot. Or the weird “try too hard” time period and sets. What a bore and overall just strange.

Horrible. It was just way too strange a love story for me. The musical scene left me speechless because of the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

Truly beautiful. Another win for Guillermo del Toro and his incredible storytelling!

How can you rate a book based on a movie?. Nothing more to say. Read the book then rate it. It's not published yet.

What a great message. What a complex book to give such a simple message: love one another

Absolutely Amazing. A love story like no other - very well put together . Suspense , love , drama and compassion. The audience gets the opportunity to fall in love with the creature from the Amazon just like Elisa did too . It’s different, extraordinary but BEAUTIFUL in its own way.

The Shape of Water. Surprised over and over! Not all easy reading but not without truth!! I recommend this book!!

Truly spectacular!!. The movie was breathtaking and beautiful. As you watch the movie, you feel the emotions of all the characters. I cannot wait to read the book.

The Shape Of Water. The movie is a beautiful story. I can’t wait to read the book to delve deeper into the characters.

Weird grammar. This novel is grammatically weird at times (uses ”and” instead of “but” etc.) like this oddly worded sentence “The moon this particular evening is a great hole carved through nightflesh to reveal pale, luminescent bone, and he does not notice Henríquez creep up on him.” Kind of takes you from immersing yourself in the story to judging the credentials of this author. Movie was great, book not so much.

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Summary of The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus

The The Shape of Water book written by Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus was published on 06 March 2018, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 261 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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