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The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro

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So, this book is far out of my comfort level for genre. I’m don’t know myself to venture outside of my regular norm. From my regular WWII historical fiction, to police procedural, I rarely venture into uncharted territory of Guillermo Del Toro. I rarely find myself branching out to any sort of science fiction or fantasy. I think the last fantasy novel I read was the City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare back in 2014, and that one was dragging the series out too far and ended up being a 2/5 star book for me.   Where all I can say is that I thoroughly enjoyed those book, and ended up giving it 5/5 on my Goodreads account.             The Shape of Water was an absolute knockout of a book. I was hesitant to pick it up at first, and that’s mainly due to the nature of the story. The giant creature and a human being, and the love story are usually an off switch for me. I think that’s because it usually makes me think of Beauty and the Beast. This story was anything but your run of

Where I Have Been

So it’s been quite some time since I have posted on the kobokonos, and I thought that I would explain as to where my head has been. Most of the books that I have posted about on this webpage were free preceding copies provided by publishers and Netgalley. I became frustrated with the webpage when all of my preapproved copies expired on my device whole I was out one day attempting to read a new story. So I left to read something that I had on my device that didn’t have and expiry date, which wasn’t the worst thing, but I started to go through the books that I found on my own. With a lack of a demand to have to post it looks like there wasn't much of a reason to do so. To be honest with you it looks like I miss writing about books. Looks like we are on the comeback tour. I was sitting at home finishing the shape of water, and I loved the book that I thought I would write a post for it because the book is beautiful. So in short it looks like I am planning on coming back and post