Open Water is a beautiful story of young love told in a slow burn, friends to lovers style. I could feel and relate to it each phase of their relationship. Not only is it a love story, but it also touches on police brutality, being the check mark for diversity within schools, and putting on a brave face when you don't feel like you fit in or accepted by the world around you. The book shows very tender vulnerability in showing the feeling of defeat and powerlessness in the face of racism that I think many black people will understand. Book was told very poetically and abstract at times, so you definitely need to take your time reading. This is not a quick book to read through even though the book is short. Very emotional book. As for the writing, I am not accustomed to this writing style where the narrator is telling the story to the main character: you did this, you felt this. It threw me off and I did not like that style, but it is not a negative criticism against it. Just not my preference. Overall a good book that you feel as you read.