Feb 25, 2025
fluffy childcare vibes + murder mysteries + the usual OI tropes.
Good:
* gorgeous art. All (both male and female) characters are hot. Marianne (duke's sister) is great in both looks AND personality.
* Simple, but cool plot seamlessly mixes mysteries and fluffy childcare plot. There's some sparse comedy too. The setting of a secret "serial killer hunter" magician duke is pretty intriguing.
* lots of cute moments, where the child is cuddled/spoiled/fawned over by daddy, brother, aunt and butler characters.
* A quality villain who feels threatening. TBH, all characters are great and have an air of mystery about their past.
Bad
* Murder mystery writing is
...
kinda garbage. MC magically (literally) gets information to solve the puzzle, while others think she's some genius (NOT in a funny way like tearmoon/overlord/eminence in shadow).
* annoying trope of MC overthinking and worrying that she will be thrown out if she's not useful, despite the family repeatedly telling her explicitly that they love her.
* general OI nonsense: making MC's past and current life tragic like being terminally ill or an orphan for pity points, making the duke/brother/everyone obsessed with MC for no reason, MC hiding her memories of past life from her family thinking nobody would believe her etc..
Overall
If you can look past certain overused tropes, the series is quite good (by relative OI standards). It has a unique setting and already setup seeds for interesting future plots (eg: the workings of the church). But, after season 1 (40 chapters), the author had to take a 2-year+ hiatus for cancer treatment, so, there's very few chapters released (only 50 at this moment). If you can't deal with weekly cliffhangers, I recommend binging one season at a time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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