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A review by khyie
The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] by Xue Shan Fei Hu
Did not finish book. Stopped at 40%.
I, for the most part, enjoyed what I read up to this point but I honestly have no desire to continue this story. Maybe that will change in the future but probably not.
This is a pretty typical example of the cute pet boyfriend trope and nothing about it particularly stood out except that he was a fish and I had a great many questions about the realism of literally anything that happened in this story in relation to that. The other thing that I really enjoyed is that the ML really was mute and up to where I read, there was no magical fix that suddenly made him capable of talking, and seeing them navigate that part of their relationship was interesting, and I think in some ways, it spotlights just how easy it is to take advantage of someone who can't speak. There were times when they were arguing that I just wanted to scream at the MC because he could say whatever he wanted and he could just walk away and the ML wouldn't have any chance to really defend himself because he wasn't able to express himself vocally and the MC could just refuse to read the notes he tried to pass him.
Once all of the relationship stuff was straightened up though and the babies came into the picture, the story lost a lot of it's steam. I don't particularly care about the face-slapping and the MC is clearly going to find a way to become human for as long as he wants. The only thing I could see this story doing that isn't already incredibly apparent is revealing that the ML's muteness is deliberate sabotage and doing something to rectify it. There's been hints already and one of the few things I've actually enjoyed about this story is that the ML's disability wasn't negated--I'm looking at you Insider--and I'm not interested in seeing the story go that route.
Anyway, if you want a cute pet boyfriend story I don't think this one is all that bad but I really need to stop trying to read these. I've DNFed every single one I've tried out of boredom and this one isn't any different.
This is a pretty typical example of the cute pet boyfriend trope and nothing about it particularly stood out except that he was a fish and I had a great many questions about the realism of literally anything that happened in this story in relation to that. The other thing that I really enjoyed is that the ML really was mute and up to where I read, there was no magical fix that suddenly made him capable of talking, and seeing them navigate that part of their relationship was interesting, and I think in some ways, it spotlights just how easy it is to take advantage of someone who can't speak. There were times when they were arguing that I just wanted to scream at the MC because he could say whatever he wanted and he could just walk away and the ML wouldn't have any chance to really defend himself because he wasn't able to express himself vocally and the MC could just refuse to read the notes he tried to pass him.
Once all of the relationship stuff was straightened up though and the babies came into the picture, the story lost a lot of it's steam. I don't particularly care about the face-slapping and the MC is clearly going to find a way to become human for as long as he wants. The only thing I could see this story doing that isn't already incredibly apparent is
Anyway, if you want a cute pet boyfriend story I don't think this one is all that bad but I really need to stop trying to read these. I've DNFed every single one I've tried out of boredom and this one isn't any different.