In Another World with Household Spells: Volume 1

In Another World with Household Spells (LN) #1

by Rika ., Sachi Salehi (Translator), HIROKAZU (Illustrator)

One day Kaoru Aoyama is working as a normal office worker in Japan and the next she’s waking up to find that she’s become Patience Granger, the daughter of a viscount! She isn’t sure if she’s been reincarnated into this world or if she’s just possessing this body, but one thing is for This isn’t a simple magical adventure in another world. Despite being nobles, the Granger family is destitute! Patience is desperate to figure out how to help her family, including her adorable younger brothers, but her magic proficiency lies in household magic—a type relating to domestic chores. Not only does she have her family to worry about but Patience is also ten years old. She’ll be enrolling in the Royal Academy, where she’ll have to navigate relationships with other nobles while trying to grow her skills. Using her knowledge from her past life and the memories she has from the original Patience, this young noble is determined to use her talents to protect her angelic little brothers!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

233 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2025

Reviews

[Mistress OP · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one's more complex than usual. Two people are kinda controlling the body, which means she can't fully act like an adult or play the grown-up logical game. It's not a story that's reinventing anything. But it's solid filler, and honestly, I'll take that. I wouldn't sit down and read it, but I'm fully okay with a text-to-speech listen.

The young boy thing is weird. It's not sexual but it's weird weird weird. And honestly I skim that part just partly cut it out of my mind like it doesn't exist. (This is the rotten woman troupe. It's probably the creepiest way to pull it off)

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. I wouldn't reread it. But it's solid filler that didn't throw me into a reading slump, which matters with how many books I go through. I’ll take that, hands down. Low bar, but the real issue with this genre is how poorly women are written. It looks empowering on the surface because they're fighting and doing stuff, but when you look closer, they aren't being developed properly. And when they are, it's in a harem-style setup, which isn't real development.

So for the most part, I actually enjoyed this because it felt like I was finally getting to read something. Just a heads-up though, her talent is way overpowered when you stop and think about it. It basically breaks the game. But there are so many layers of nonsense she has to go through just to use her game-breaking talent, and that gets annoying. But it makes it so it's readable. I think a lot of times people think oh lookie lookie I'm a noble with game breaking talent. And I think a really good story explains that it's just as dangerous as being poor. Because if you aren't a powerful noble or person with that talent. What ends up happening is you are used by someone else and that doesn't mean they will be kind.

[Aelvana · Rating 2 out of 5]

When a Japanese office worker transmigrates into a fantasy world, she wakes up as Patience Granger, a girl whose nobility won't put food on the table. Ever since her father fell out of favor with the royal family, they've been poor. Patience has only been blessed with household magic, but between that and her Japanese sensibilities she's sure she can turn things around for her darling younger brothers.

I had a hard time reading this. Not because Patience is such a fan of young boys that she's constantly calling herself out for it (which can read as creepy at points), but because Patience is so terminally unable to stand up for herself the book is mostly about other people pushing her around. She has some small bits of agency, but then the plot almost immediately takes them away.

The worst part is her getting assigned to be the lady's maid for Princess Margaret, who is completely self-absorbed and thinks she's helping Patience by using her and dictating how her life is going to run. What Patience actually wants is of no consequence. Margaret is then so pleased with herself for being nice without realizing that inside Patience is screaming (and here's me going, wake her up by dumping cold water on her instead of indulging her! tell her to her face you don't have TIME to write a new song every day! DO SOMETHING BEFORE YOU DIE OF OVERWORK!).

And even with that said part of me wants to keep going for one more book just to see if Patience has some kind of nervous breakdown and starts screaming at people. Which, given the general flow of things, is very unlikely. Oh well. I rate this book Neutral.