A comforting read about an unexpected heir ascending to the throne and being a good person.
I saw someone compare this read to a warm blanket, and I think that is as accurate a summation as I could manage. It is a tale of nobles in a fantasy world... but it has more in common with The Crown than Game of Thrones.

The book is a confusing jumble of names and names for things, but that feels appropriate given its context. While I might be unsure whether Drakkar Noir of the Bordelaise family was mentioned before, the main character is new to the whole Bernaise Court or... whatever, so he usually didn't know either. I couldn't even begin to guess at how the names were meant to be pronounced or reproduce any of them on command, but I'm really bad with names and they were all meant to be a confusing whirl anyway.

And despite that, the book was still comfortable. A good person was placed in charge of a messy situation, he rises to the occasion, faces adversities and overcomes them. It didn't feel rushed, or stressful, the action was never urgent, yet it had a hypnotic pull that kept me up late reading and left me feeling good afterward. There should be more books like this. There probably are, but I have no idea how they'd be marketed in a genre that typically only extols earth-shattering consequence and heart-rending drama.