Books like The Wizard's Butler

First time reading a Lowell book, and it was... interesting. There are some books which you feel like you should like, but don't. This is the opposite, a book that I feel like I shouldn't like, but I do.It's basically a slow, leisurely slice-of-life account of a man becoming a butler, with a small sprinkling of magic and some legal shenanigans to give it at least a smidgen of a conflict.It is, I think, very much a book that needs the right mood. There's genuine joy to be found in reading of the ways Roger grows into his role, a kind of Downton Abbey vibe. At the same time, the plot is, to put it politely, meandering, and the whole book feels like it could do with being a hundred pages shorter and with a few plot threads being picked up again.At the same time, I did read the thing cover to cover, staying up late because I wanted to know what happened. Clearly Lowell's doing *something* right.