Siren’s Lament
A tempting offer from a ridiculously hot mermaid goes horribly wrong.
Lyra is your average florist (pictured in the middle), with a small exception, she has a secret weapon over most other flower sellers in the world, Shon(pictured on the right), who is able to attract dozens of young girls, like honey does flies. One problem though, Lyra has been in love with Shon since she was a kid, and last year he found a beautiful girlfriend. On the night of a date-of-sorts between the two of them, Shon receives a call that his girlfriend needs to be picked up, Lyra urges him to go while she proceeded to weep underneath the moonlight at their would-be date night. She hears an alluring sound and falls through the railings lining the shore, landing in the ocean. She ends up in the arms of a siren, a mythical Greek creature, and asked, “...if given the chance, would you forget the past?”,she later finds herself on the beach with a naked man to her side, otherwise known as Ian (shown on the left) who is everyone’s favorite dead goldfish.
But basically, Ian was trying to turn Lyra into a siren by kissing her, but something went wrong and they both ended up half human and half siren. In this series, sirens are mermaid like creatures who can manipulate water, sense heartbreak, and entice the heartbroken into the water. The curse that Ian was trying to place on Lyra was one that a magician named, Poseidon, made after he was heart broken, but what it entails is that a human is turned into a siren at the expense of their memories, and the only way to break it is to turn someone else into a siren.
I liked Instantmiso’s previous series, Where Tangents Meet, but this is far better, and as pointed out by other readers, she HAS gotten better at drawing abs as well. I feel as if the change in story genre change was really good for her because now with this new romance/fantasy webtoon, her characters and art have definitely improved for the better. Not only is her art turning out very nice, the story itself is definitely more lifelike creating a better attachment to the characters and to the webtoon as a whole.
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First and foremost, main protagonist review, Lyra at times seems to be very 2D in the sense that she is only seeking the good in the world, and is blatantly in love with a character that in my eyes does not seem very lovable. (although Shon at times can seem very noble, he doesn’t seem very loving of Lyra, he either is very inconsiderate of her feelings, or he is completely oblivious to the fact that she loves him, and watching him go out with a complete stranger must’ve hurt her in many ways, but that’s besides the point) After almost 100 chapters of reading about how Lyra loves Shon it gets to the point where you think to yourself, when will she realize that Ian seems to love her a lot more than Shon does, but I don’t know, that may just be me :/.
But, that’s all for this week, see you guys in my next webtoon review/korean culture post (probably the former)
