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By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 1

By: Roy, Mana Z - translator
Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
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Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins!

One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!

©2017 Roy; English translation copyright 2020 by J-Novel Club LLC; Original Japanese edition published in 2017 by Hobby Japan; Cover illustration by Ririnra (P)2023 Tantor

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Excellent

I was kind of hoping the kid who does the anime would perform this, but still very happy it made it to audible.

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Loved The Anime and now the Book

This was a nice relaxing engaging audiobook. I would definitely recommend. I loved the anime and I really enjoyed the book. The pace was nice and it was an enjoyable slice of life book with elements of magic. if you haven't watched the anime I would recommend that as well.

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Gods slimes new life

New life in a New World full of magic ,slime , and new friends slow pace with adventures

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Light Novel to Anime

As always, the story is better than the anime. After going through this to the end and rewatching the first 6 episodes in season 1. I understood the plot better and found the anime to be rushed.

Those who enjoy the series would enjoy this as well. I do hope book 2 comes out soon.

Looking at you Jon Vertullo, I think feel you did a good job distinguishing each character as well as narrating.

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Cute and Relaxing

This isn't the most interesting or original story in the world, and it is unfortunately quite short, but it has a great feeling to it and I think it is well worth a listen.

I actually realized shortly after I had started this that I had seen the anime. I could only remember a little bit of the anime so I thought maybe I had dropped it despite also having fond memories of it, which was weird. It turns out that the anime covered only this book, and this book is very short without really much happening, so that explains why I had thought I dropped it. It's really only about four episodes of content, so they must have really stretched it out.

At any rate, if it sounds promising to you, then feel free to give it a go. It is quite heartwarming.

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I loved this book

The story is fun and lighthearted! It is a nice change of pace for an Isekai story! I watched the anime already, but I still enjoyed reading this! I would highly recommend this book and series!

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Looking forward to the next volume!

Fun story to listen to. Jon Vertullo is a great narrator as well. I hope he will narrate all the light novels.

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A relaxed story with a great performance

Jon does a wonderful job of bringing the characters and conversations to life. His voices for the wide variety of folks the appear in the story are excellent - Mia in particular totally made me smile.

It’s a cozy, easy-paced story (some may say slow) more about making connections and relationships and slowly expanding a world than anything, featuring the kind of protagonist who holes up in a forest to study slimes for three years, so if you’re looking for an action-paced OP level grind in another world—this story isn’t that except in the margins. Personally, I enjoy the more relaxed story that still plays with the tropes that make this genre so fun, and definitely recommend it.

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Good story

Poor Ryouma, suffered a lot in his past life. It got me tearing up at the end.

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Great

Great story, great narration, great production. Highly recommend. Don’t hesitate - won’t regret. More please and thank you.

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