terka’s Reviews > The Fallen Merman > Status Update

Nevermind, Rimaud isn’t unhinged. ERIS IS. Holy crap. I hope he will stick around and won’t be just an episodic villain, he is so crazy :D and as inhuman as it gets… curious to see that objects can become sentient experimental subjects too.

“Omg this is the first time an adult has been kidnapped and turned into an experimental subject!”
Meanwhile Rimbaud: 🧍‍♂️

Hm I should read the prequel. I don’t care much about the bunny man (idk I just don’t care for bunnies) but Lu Shangjin is interesting

Rimbaud: “what do you want?”
Bai Chunian: “I want half the people in the world killed” 😤
R: “ok I’ll do it tomorrow bby ❤️”
B: “wait lol I’m joking don’t actually do that”
R: ☹️
B: “you are so cute”
R: 🙂
B: “and violent😘”
R: ☺️

(I LOVE THEM)

The way this novel balances light moments with serious situations needs to be studied. Usually I dislike major tonal shifts between chapters or even scenes but here it just WORKS. Major angsty flashback, MC completely breaking down, action scene, cute and caring moment, funny flirty dialogue, another action scene… and it just flows so well. (Btw are we ever going to address how Rimbaud just ate a bunch of people?)

“I really thought I had a good temper before teaching students.”

As a fellow teacher, I felt that 😂

Oh wow I thought mature Rimbaud is going to be a handful and here he is, already threatening to fuck two people to get them to back away from his lover. Any expectations I had have been already surpassed, he is unhinged.

““What should I do? I have always been in command; it has always been someone else asking me what to do, so now, where do I belong? Where should I go?”

Poor little baby 😭 how did this get so serious all of a sudden? 💔

I’m still reading this! This has been dedicated as my mini-reader novel to read on the go because it’s so easy to follow

My updates seem so pathetically small but this is just SO LONG! I read 12 chapters today! Not my fault that’s only 2% 😭