Maid kara Haha ni Narimashita
From Maid to Mother

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This manga focuses on the protagonist Lily a Japanese girl who is reincarnated in a fantasy kingdom, where she becomes the royal maid, adept at information gathering, problem solving, and caring for others. The story starts when she is recruited to be the mother of the royal magician's new powerful ward.
This is an ongoing manga, so my opinion might change. Also, I am a big fan of isekai, so that definitely skews my point of view. That said, I am finding this very enjoyable to read so far. The art is average, and maybe a little old fashioned even, but nothing horrible. The story ... isn't airtight, there are some plot holes and a lot of suspension of disbelief, but considering the genre and the fact that it is incomplete, I think that's fine. I do enjoy the world building, the system of magic, and the characters. The magic system is an elemental system, with spirits possessing elemental powers and sharing them with magicians in the form of magical contracts. The character aren't super complex, but they are likeable and fun to root for. The little girl, Jill, is very cute. Lily could use a little more depth, being the almost too perfect type of protagonist, but that is fun to indulge in sometimes, and could improve in the future.
Personally, I like the kind of 'love will save the day' plot, especially when other kinds of love besides romantic are acknowledged, in this case, there is a big focus on familial love, even if the characters aren't blood related. One thing I don't love is the protagonist's relationship with her past love interest, although that might be a translation issue, I can't tell.

This story is a perfect example of why I'm hesitant to read female romance stories. This is just not a great story.

The Premise? I actually like. I find it to be interesting. I wish that we just got a story of some chick reincarnating and taking care of some small girl without any guy being a love interest. I'd especially love it if the chick went adventuring with the girl.

I don't like dropping stories. So I thought I'd just get to the currently released chapters and be done with this story. But I had to force myself to get to chapter 10. Keep In mind ... that I'm not the targeted demographic for this type of story. A girl might read this story and find it to be a magnificent piece of art, But not me.

The Romance is one of the most awkward and forced romances I've seen and is exactly what I don't like out of female romances. The guy is either one of three things. A complete Douche, A complete Pansy or has no personality besides some blank responses and the author tries selling that as a personality.

The Romance has no time to build up. The Maid/MC has no reason to like this dude. Hell, She should be despising him cause the first time she see's the little girl, She's been tied up by ropes thrown into a small room underground with the only light being some Magic formation he made. This guy isn't sweet or endearing. But a total asshole.

I'm not even kidding. This dude gags this 8 or 9-Year-Old looking girl then ties her up without any humans nearby in case of an emergency If I remember correctly, He also wasn't feeding her or if then barely. I've read some bad LN with douche Male Love interest characters, I.e "Swamp Girl" or " My Disciple Died Yet Again" But as far as I remember, This takes the cake for the most annoying Male Love Interest.

Overall, This story is just filled with wasted potential and wasted potential is worse than no potential IMO.

So good side, heart warming and cute.

Eh side, art's decent, magic system is good but not the focus.

Bad side, the romance is slow and awkward.

The main problem is the that MC is still in love with a guy from her past life, and the guy is clueless about everything. He's not bad but he has no idea how to act, like some form of low-grade autism he just doesn't GET people.
So the romance is danced around, and danced around, and danced around. If this wasn't a romance and they just genuinely were caring for the adopted daughter, or if it was just a straight romance, ... it'd be better, but the dancing drags the pace down and what plot there is has to deal with it.

The story is largely saved because the daughter is cute, and the 3 of them, plus the 3 spirits, are just cute together. If you can put up with the not-romance it's a fine bit of fluff, but really nothing else, and I like fluff.