terka’s Reviews > The Fallen Merman > Status Update

Ngl I started skimming pages. Not a good sign.

I want to read Error: Insignificant so badly but I GOTTA FINISH THIS FIRST! AaaaaAAAAAA!!! I hate myself for starting multiple books at once!!!

Is it the law that every danmei must have a younger (step/half/adopted) brother who is a little slow to understand things and a little naive? Lu Yan here (bless his soul for finally noticing he even HAS a brother), Xue Meng in Erha, Jiang Cheng in MDZS, Qi Rong in TGCF (cousins count too), whatever the hell He Yu’s brother’s name was… I’m noticing a pattern xD

Volume 7 finished! Wooohooo!🥳

I still don't get omegaverse, it feels like a fetish and a weird way to erase women - all the omegas in this book could be women and literally nothing in the story would change, there isn't even smut. And I don't like pregnancy talk in my BL books. If I wanted that, I would pick a het read. Idk man. This book would work perfectly fine without the alpha/omega thing, I don't feel like it adds anything.

You know what my main complaint about this is? There’s like five freaking couples and barely any romance. The main two have cute moments (and are LITERALLY MARRIED), but Error: Metamorphosis by the same author had so many kissing scenes, cuddles, declaration of feelings, characters thinking about their partner’s beauty… - all that while also being fully fade to black and non explicit. I miss that here :(

You know maybe I cause reading blocks because I switch between books, unable to really get invested in any of them because I keep forgetting shit. So rn I will stay committed to Fallen Merman, I’ll make it to at least 70% or eat my words

Made it back to where I stopped last time. And - shocker - a female character?! At last?! Lin Qian has AMAZING ladies in the Error series, so having no women in The Fallen Merman has been so jarring... anyone who could be a woman is just a male omega... weird... but finally, one of the bad guys is legit an aplha woman, I could cry. She has not been on screen yet, just talked about :D but yay women actually exist!

I actually had to reverse my progress because tons of important things happened in the last few chapters and I DONT REMEMBER SHIT. I gotta finish Fallen Merman in 2026 damnit