Goddess
Goddess
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If most LitRPGs are like Dungeons and Dragons or role-playing video games, Goddess Reborn is a board game. Sammy's initial followers are whoever happened to be speaking in front of a mirror when she was looking around. They're scattered around several countries where an anti-religion group called the Dominion hold sway. Sammy tries to keep her pawns on the board, gain new ones, and move the pieces closer together, all while avoiding the notice of the Dominion and more powerful gods.
Sammy the isekai protagonist is a college student who's into Tarot and swears a lot. I'm not a Tarot enthusiast so I can't say if the Tarot elements are well done, but at least some of it is intentionally bad. The system running this world didn't bother getting it right and Sammy gets annoyed it's so simplistic here.
Sammy also has her public persona as Samantha, Virgin Goddess of Mirrors. This persona has a soothing voice and comes off as sweet and innocent. In spreading her influence and hiding her identity, she develops even more personas, all very different.
The system messages are very repetitive. Every time Sammy gains a new follower, there are four lines of system text. When she gets daily faith points for followers, a message is given for each one until she fixes it to just give a total. I suspect this book would be an hour or two shorter if the system messages were pruned down.
The audiobook has two readers. The female reader voices all female characters and all general narration. The male reader voices all male characters as well as the system messages. They both do a wide variety of accents/voices. Some characters are a little quieter than others but mostly the production is solid and even.