By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 2

By the Grace of the Gods, Book 2

De: Roy, Mana Z - translator

Narrado por: Ray Greenley

Enjoying a slow and leisurely life with slime monsters, the second volume of the easygoing otherworldly fantasy is here!

Ryoma is a boy reborn from another world, who finds himself traveling with a kindly duke's family. After registering with the Adventurer's Guild and successfully finishing his first major job, he accompanies the duke's daughter Eliaria in her combat training, while learning new magics along the way! With a variety of slimes under his wing, Ryoma enjoys his second chance at life while encountering many kind people in this otherworldly fantasy story!

©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

A relaxing listen

It was a good story. The main weakness is that this very much is a slice of life with only a little bit of conflict. This is a common problem with some light novels, but the characters manage to help the story stay interesting. We will have to see how later books change and add conflict/drama. I shall look forward to seeing that.

Awesome

Love the story of a nice guy getting a second chance at being able to help all the people he can!

Story and narrator

Both are great. It was a match meant to be. For those that like light novels it’s something’s a nice thing to get a good narrator. Though to get one that can match the Mc that well is rather like finding a diamond in the rough.

Slime and adventure

Anime or book you will love this series it’s a slice of life with slimes and adventure

Karma brake

I appreciated the reveal of what what's happening back on earth tothe people left behind though the mention of divine protection being no longer provided was kinda ominous

Slice of life with slimes

An easy listen, slice of life story. Not a lot of conflict, but that’s honestly a nice change of pace in my opinion. It’s often really jarring to have a new narrator in a series, but Ray is fairly consistent which can’t have been easy! The switch wasn’t as disruptive as I feared. An easy, enjoyable listen. Looking forward to the next installment!

Building a Slime Army

slowly but surely Ryoma is building a little Slime army, will he become a demon lord and rule over the world? that's certainly what he thinks will happen if he allows himself to be a child. A little mental age regression is a charming way to make sure the main character isn't too stuck in his previous life.

still hoping they continue recording this series!

Love the Anime and Book

It's a nice slice of life story with slimes. Now that we are past the first volume the speech pattern is better though I liked Jon Vertullo performed better. I think Jon did a better job with the distinction between female voice and character distinction. It is a little hard for me at times to figure out who is talking with Ray as the narrative especially between the other two beastkin female characters. Ray isn't bad but I just preferred Jon better.

good story

The plot is alright thought the new reader uses the same voice making it hard to realize who is talking sometime, I also feel he's using less energy than the previous reader

Great Series

watched the anime, love it, rewatch it every so often. Thoroughly enjoy the Audiobook and learning all the things the anime cut out and sad it was missing as the anime was great but knowing it could be even better makes me sad. haha the reader is good though a few character voice choices personally don't feel right after watching the anime but that shouldn't be a true reflection of the readers abilities. i know that it is more of a personal preference.