Cry of the Mer

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2017

Author

Fantasy Ocean

• 1. Captive
  Sep 21, 2017

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• LightningShadow7Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The only problem I have with your fantastic work is the long paragraphs, when people see extremely long paragraphs they skip, so it would be fantastic if you were to edit your work into smaller paragraphs into the future for better digestion. I find myself skipping any of your long paragraphs.
• CalamitousRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story has only one issue I have ever felt with it. Not updating fast enough. This story is beautifully written, wonderously heartbreaking, and completely endearing. Please give this story a read since it deserves every view it gets. Fantasy Ocean as an author can capture the hearts of their readers and leave you wanting more and more.
  You will be moved and rocked emotionally by this story. Happy, sad, furious, you will experience it all. It truly is a beautiful work of fiction.
• Ryan SlaierRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Just the writing should be enough to catch your attention. Completely entrancing that I get lost in no matter how many times I reread this story! The style is all the author's own. I've never felt so strongly about a work of fiction like this. It is more of a realistic fantasy, with the science never being ignored. The unnerving sections of the story are so interesting to read. A few grammar mistakes, but nothing that detracts from the overall writing.
  While beautifully worded, yes, some characters feel too much like stereotypes, but it is still an experience to enjoy. You love the heroes and hate the villains. A simple story with so much to discover.
• MiralinRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Up to Chapter 12, this book is an emotional rollercoaster, but it is so well written that you really relate to all the characters introduced and hate on all the evil things happening. So far I am blown away and I would recommend you definitely give it a read, it's really good!
• Hyperion915Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  phenomenal writing, amazing characters, spectacularly well crafted plot, this story has it all. just one thing tho, i feel like im torturing myself, its so depressing. im really sorry that i have to drop this (probably, havent closed the tab yet), but im only 12 chapters in and i feel like im choking on the depressing shit thats come with reading it. for any potential readers, know that this is one of the best written things to be published on this site, but also not something you want to read to escape reality and have fun like i do.
  btw get this published at some point, i can see it getting really popular once youve done so
• xanthelolRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Wow, this is some amazing content. I personally think in some places the paragraphs could be shorter, so it doesn’t look like a wall of text, but other than that, 10/10. It’s too bad you can’t continue posting it, but hopefully some day we’ll all get to see it in bookstores. :)
• ArararaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I like the story: it started off exceedingly interesting, and the writing's fine. The post rate is amazing. There are a couple of typos every now and then, but very rarely. The theme is dark, but it only makes you smile more when something nice is happening to the characters. My only complaint is that the characters are portrayed as black-or-white; either evil to the bone or completely nice, for the most part. But it's a minor concern. I reccomend.
• GuthanRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  First of all I’m going to talk about my thoughts on this story. The story has a dark feel to it that draws you in. The main characters are fleshed out and feel like you can relate to Katie. She’s in this horrifying scenario with no escape in sight with a small person depending on them. It’s good.
  Here’s the bad. The villains and the plot are hard to take seriously. The doctors are so evil it feels like a parody or caricature of a mad scientist. One is a Dr Mengele type sadist, and the other wants to create mermaids in a demented sceme to make mad money off a water park attraction.
  Theres no hint that the government has any plans beyond just ‘kidnap people’ and “????”. It’s not really addressed why this shady government group is hiring random grad students to help their highly illegal human experiments either. Supposedly this is in 2016 or so and they just let unvetted uni kids with phones work at their highly illegal facility where they torture and mutate people.
• rObin_:)Royal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  A young girl named Katie is kidnapped and brought to some morally questionable institution where she undergoes genetic alterations that turn her lower body into fish. She is treated subhuman at every turn by everyone at the institution and the only comfort she is able to find is a mermaid girl, Luna, who is trapped alongside her. The majority of chapters are told from the perspective of Katie but does change to other characters throughout the story.
  A central theme is the family relationship between the characters, mostly shown with the sisterhood between Katie and Luna. The abuse these characters suffer through makes you empathize quite strongly with these characters, which makes some of the emotional payoffs really palpable. That abuse goes to some really dark places, and it is interesting how some stories have half a dozen trigger warnings while this only has one, seeing as this goes way further than pretty much all other stories I have read on this site.
  I really like the focus on family rather then the more typical romance that you usually get, especially with female characters who are as young as that of the MC here. If you have also gotten tired of this, it does tell a very heartwarming tale of sisterhood as well as mother/child relation (at least heartwarming between all the heartache).
  As a whole, it seems that the author had a conceptual idea of the situation that these characters would be put into, and spent most of the time ensuring that those concepts come off the strongest. Surrounding aspects, however, such as the internal logic and the narrative reasons for all the events seems to have been put somewhat to the side. I still very much recommend the story, as the first aspects do come off really strong.
  Going in-depth of the criticism I have would spoil large parts of the story, so I’ll just briefly say that they mainly revolve around convenient/incredulous plot progression, how the world responds to the discovery of a new species and how terrible the
• GandraschRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Very well written, but the story feels like an excuse to write down torture scenes. Why does a scientist want to put his research subject into a waterpark of all things to make money, if its actually government funded top secret stuff? And that's just the most glaring thing.