Read "The Goblin Emperor" today, interesting book. It's your basic "power thrust onto them" story, with (I think?) white/black race issues in the background, and a fairly simpathetic treatment of the lead (who does actually have feelings of "actually, autocratic power is kind of neat" sometimes).

I found it hard to keep tabs of the various people, the naming scheme is complex and context dependent. Although it's a third person book, the names used in the text change depending on (amoung other things) the feelings of the lead towards the individual being named.

But yeah, interesting.