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A review by nitzanschwarz
The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun de Zhangxin Yu Chong (Novel) Vol. 2 by Xue Shan Fei Hu
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Overall, this series is proving really fun.
I laughed out loud multiple times. Sometimes, just because whatever the book was describing ignored physics and reality. My brain started conjuring really ridiculous images, like Prince Jing submerging his whole forearm and half his torso into the fish tank to pet Li Yu's tail when he's stuck in his castle or flattening his fingers into slips of paper to pet the fish's back when he's in his bottle. Like, it's supposed to be a MASSIVE tank, y'all. Even in an average-sized tank by modern standards, reaching all the way to the bottom will get you significantly wet. How is he touching the fish so easily at every opportunity? My man must spend half his life drenched at this point! And my brain was neatly skipping over the bottle before we got an illustration of it in this volume. Once I saw that, though? It was game over for my imagination LOL
Aside from that, I did find this second volume ever so slightly less enjoyable than the first. I'm not sure how I feel about the plotline with the original love interest, despite the book literally using Li Yu's words to try to appeal to my forgiveness and "remind" me of the setting and their "standards" for dealing with adversaries. It still makes me uncomfortable. I think my issue stems from how weak Chu Yanyu is and how he gets used by everyone around him. Sure, he does some despicable things, and he should 100% be punished for them - but send him out of the house. You certainly have justified cause to banish him. Don't do whatever this is.
I was also much happier with the second half of the book than the first. In the first half, we have some manufactured drama (though it certainly could've been worse), and then at the beginning of the second half, we basically undo all of it and backtrack realllll fast to try to make the reader forget it all.Like, Li Yu was so adamenet about how he doesn't love Prince Jing like that and how Prince Jing was wrong for forcing him, and then... he realizes he does love him and quickly tries to reassure the reader that he wasn't actually upset with Prince Jing's physical affections, he actually enjoyed them, he was just confused. And while I certainly believe he loves him, if you were going to "take back" all that he said, maybe you could've just... not said it to begin with. You know?
Anyway, I am being slightly nitpicky since overall this was still a lot of fun, and now that we're finallyfully in relationship territory I am really excited to read the next volume and see where this couple of idiots go from here. Actually, it's not a couple of idiots - it's one cute idiot and his whipped husband.
I laughed out loud multiple times. Sometimes, just because whatever the book was describing ignored physics and reality. My brain started conjuring really ridiculous images, like Prince Jing submerging his whole forearm and half his torso into the fish tank to pet Li Yu's tail when he's stuck in his castle or flattening his fingers into slips of paper to pet the fish's back when he's in his bottle. Like, it's supposed to be a MASSIVE tank, y'all. Even in an average-sized tank by modern standards, reaching all the way to the bottom will get you significantly wet. How is he touching the fish so easily at every opportunity? My man must spend half his life drenched at this point! And my brain was neatly skipping over the bottle before we got an illustration of it in this volume. Once I saw that, though? It was game over for my imagination LOL
Aside from that, I did find this second volume ever so slightly less enjoyable than the first. I'm not sure how I feel about the plotline with the original love interest, despite the book literally using Li Yu's words to try to appeal to my forgiveness and "remind" me of the setting and their "standards" for dealing with adversaries. It still makes me uncomfortable. I think my issue stems from how weak Chu Yanyu is and how he gets used by everyone around him. Sure, he does some despicable things, and he should 100% be punished for them - but send him out of the house. You certainly have justified cause to banish him. Don't do whatever this is.
I was also much happier with the second half of the book than the first. In the first half, we have some manufactured drama (though it certainly could've been worse), and then at the beginning of the second half, we basically undo all of it and backtrack realllll fast to try to make the reader forget it all.
Anyway, I am being slightly nitpicky since overall this was still a lot of fun, and now that we're finally