[REVIEW] The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish

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⤷ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 ⤾

── ⤷ The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish / The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish

⤷ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ Xue Shan Fei Hu

⤷ 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ Mimi & Yuka / infinitehanji on Twitter

⤷ 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 ⤾

── ⤷ Seven Seas

⤷ 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 ⤾

── ⤷ 2024 (Seven Seas Edition)

⤷ 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 ⤾

── ⤷ Danmei, Historical, Transmigration, Romance

⤷ 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 ⤾

── ⤷ 1958

⤷ 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬 ⤾

── ⤷ One day, Li Yu transmigrated into a fish. Furthermore, this fish even had a master. This master was the sinister and terrifying, mute tyrant from a novel. The system gave Li Yu a task. If he wanted to change back into a human, he had to obtain the tyrant’s heart. Li Yu full of tears: System, please wake up. I’m only a fish. He can’t even speak. How can we interact? System: Stop jabbering. To take down the tyrant, you must attack his heart. Li Yu: Can I ask, does the tyrant have a heart– Li Yu did his best to blow bubbles at the tyrant, but ended up being captured by the tyrant and raised carefully in a huge, ginormous…… fish tank. The life of a fish was filled with all sorts of blessings. Everyday, Mu Tianchi watched the little carp swim around happily, pondering when this fish would finally transform into a human. The little carp didn’t know. It’s not that the tyrant had no heart, it’s just that he already gave it away to the little carp that accidentally saved his life.

⤷ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 ⤾

── ⤷ Mspec, Asian Characters, Mute Characters

⤷ 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⤾

── ⤷ 4.17 (Goodreads) | 4.01 (Storygraph)

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── ⤷ 04.23.2024 - 07.05.2024

⤷ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⤾

── ⤷ 3

⤷ 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 ⤾

── ⤷ e-reader

⤷ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ⤾

── ⤷ Some dude magically ends up transmigrating to the e-novel he was reading, becomes a fish, gets into a frankly absurd amount of court drama for being a fish, falls in love with the "tyrant" protagonist of the e-novel he was reading, gives said protagonist children, gets involved in more court drama and gives the protagonist another child, before living happily ever after as the "Empress" of the place he was sent to.

⤷ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ⤾

── ⤷ I would like to clarify that I did start reading this because so many people on Twitter were loosing their minds at the fact that this is starting to get traditionally published by Seven Seas. The amount of "He does WHAT to a fish??" and "so you're telling me the fish gets pregnant not once, but TWICE???" on my timeline was kind of obscene. So, obviously, I had to read it. The first "book" was already out at that point but I knew that the web version would not at all be hard to find and to my kindle. And I was right. I ended up reading the first "book" before switching over to the fan translated version because I didn't want to wait several months, possibly a year, for all the other books in the series to come out and whether or not I'll read the official translations when they get published is up in the air.

── ⤷ That being said! I did enjoy my time reading it and would probably have finished it up much faster (spending three months on a book no matter the page count is unheard of for me) if I didn't get hit with a slump right in the middle. Because despite all the screaming about it on Twitter it was actually quite tame. Any "spicy" scenes were fade to black and the relationship was actually quite tame and cute. If you consider tame to be the fact that one of them is a fish for a decent part of the story. For it being such a long story there are different villains throughout that cause at least a decent chunk of trouble. Though to the length in some sections it did seem to drag on a bit. But the beginning was wonderful, I liked it a lot, and the promise of drama and weird stuff kept me going. Though the weird stuff was minimal. Which was almost a disappointment? Considering how many people were losing their minds when it was announced. Also I found it very campy. In a good way, for the most part.

── ⤷ SPOILERS AHEAD

── ⤷ I do think that my favorite end for a villain was one of the first ones that is encountered in the book, the idea that you can drive a man literally mad for being a human-like fish is very amusing, and to be fair since he tried to eat our main character multiple times it's probably deserved. However I would say my least favorite is definitely what happens to the 6th prince, not because he didn't deserve it but more so because it felt lacking and simple for what he did throughout the rest of the novel. Death felt like to simple of a punishment. Along with the fact that it caused another female character to be gently pushed to the side. Most female characters featured in this book don't have a proper name or, if they do, are a villain or an asset to a villain. Except for the main character's eventual daughter who's name gets mental once before given a nickname like all the other children, the main wet nurse, or a singular side character that is important for a singular scene in the beginning of the book. Not to say it does a disservice to woman, as in the end it seems as though the author did try to make up for the fact, add a bit of feminize to make up for it. I jest lightly of course, it's definitely not as bad as I'm making it out to be, it's just that the lack of names for non evil female characters did make me raise an eyebrow when I noticed it. Though I also understand considering this book is a book set in a fictionalized version of ancient China and woman weren't quite seen as the wonders they deserved to be.

── ⤷ On a more amusing note I had found that, yes, the fish main character, who is a man, does in fact get pregnant. Not once, but twice. First as a fish (the dirty was not done as a full fish, do not worry) and had come four boys, of which my favorite was definitely the runt of the litter, and the second time in human form and having a singular girl. The "tyrant" in the title is very soft and caring and despite his more questionable actions towards the beginning he does just love to pamper his husband. It's truly not as weird as the people giggling about it on Twitter make it out to be. The relationship is wonderfully healthy (or at least as healthy as a relationship can get between a fish and a man destined to rule with an iron fist) and quite cute. Another thing that I did like was that the "system" in this book was more quest/game-like compared to SVSSS (the first danmei I have ever finished, this being the third), with prizes for finishing a quest and the threat of death for failing. Wasn't a huge fan of the whole mute reveal, that the love interest was only mute due to a poison that affected him the womb that he eventually gets medicine for to cure. ittedly I did know that it would happen, I did get spoiled, but ever since that chapter ended I always found myself slightly... startled? almost? when he would speak after 100+ chapters of the silent communication that I was used to. I much preferred the silent communication, considering that it showed how much of a bond the two main characters had and how close they were. The love interest didn't speak much in the grand sceme of things even after getting "cured" but I was still never a huge fan of this trope. One that I think did it well was a webcomic I have sadly forgotten the name of, who has a character with a leg disability and when it's her turn to shine she doesn't get it magically cured. I find it much better when characters are loved despite whatever is considered a "flaw" disabilities included.

⤷ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐟 ⤾

── ⤷ Classic danmei and are a fan of more absurd things happening in books. And characters in this genre knowing they're queer from the get go. Also if campy / kind of ridiculous reads are something that you enjoy. This is like every popular danmei trope wrapped up in a bow.

⤷ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐟 ⤾

── ⤷ You don't like mpreg, specifically a seemingly cis male getting pregnant. That is surprisingly a very big thing in the later chapters. Also if you find you don't like the genre of danmei. This is not a book to let you forget what it is. If you're not a fan of the disability of a character getting "cured" or find that you need action in every other chapter to keep interested.

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⤷ 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 ⤾

── ⤷ That is the end lol!!! I hope you stayed all the way through if you're reading this part, and if you have any recommendations, other books you want me to review, don't be afraid to share them by comments or dms because I love talking about books :]!! I'm all open now that I got this TOME out of my TBR pile and have slowly worked through it the past three months. I promise it won't take me as long to finish another book. Shout out to the friends that let me spam at them about this book while I was reading it... it will happen again lmao

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