Status Updates From The Dark Elf's Secret Baby ...

The constant back and forth with Layla and Kerym is honestly boring and overused at this point. They keep second-guessing each other's ulterior motives, barely had enough time to get back into a feel of things before Kerym leaves, then they both start loathing on each other top the max before breaking down almost every other chapter for the whole book so far.

Honestly thought Layla leaving would leave a heavier impact on Kerym and that he'd maybe attempt to force the information out of her cousin, Amara, but the fact she didn't say anything other than the silly words of "you don't need to know if she didn't tell you".

The time skip could have used a lot of working with. It would have been nice to figure out how Layla met Harper and Olias, and other members.

The information dump from the first couple chapters is bland and nothing of true note, but it is fairly a lot of information to take in with a whole bunch of names being thrown around. It's not too over the top, though.

The world building--so far- it doesn't explain if they're on a whole different planet or whatever it is. The building is very vague aside from the basics.

Except this is dual pov, the mmc's pov is the elf saying how much he loves the heroine and he isn't like the other elves who take humans as slaves 🙄

I was expecting this to be trash but the writing is surprisingly good. This almost reminds me of Quinn Blackbird in that the elves treat the humans like cattle.

Ma’am you tOOK YOUR CHILD’S FATHER AWAY FROM HIM WITHOUT HAVING SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SAY HE WAS BAD JUST YOUR OWN MADE UP BULLSHIT