2023 book 39

 Celia Lake's Eclipse

This is part of a series of books set in the 1920s in a magical version of England, but the author says they can be read in any order, so obviously I chose the one about teachers at a magical school. These books are billed as romances, but refreshingly, there is not any romance at all until like halfway through, the characters (a lady astronomy professor and a dude professor of “protective magic”) are just colleagues and friends dealing with magical school mysteries and academic drama. It rules. The writing here is occasionally jumpy and I wished for a little more resolution of the actual plot, but this was enjoyable and I’d read another book in this series (or set in this world: it looks like this series is all straight romances but the author has some queer ones that seem related). B+.