Dianna Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

I liked that this one was set in modern - almost - England, and that there was no attempt to localize for the American middle school audience, so you get super British vocabulary like "roundabout" for merry-go-round and "bouncy castle" for those blow-up things at carnivals that the kids jump around inside. (Although yesterday I saw an ad for a children's birthday party magician that used the same term, so maybe that's just what they're called.)

However, I don't know if I can get over SPOILER the middle-aged man (with white hair!) proposing marriage to the recent college graduate who works for him, after previously considering same with his research assistant, thing long enough to give this a fair review. ^^

( But I will try! WARNING: Severe spoilers are whited out but some details that do not affect the plot - but do give away character development arcs - are revealed )

This is a total tangent, and not at all related to the rest of the review, but I was very excited to see an explanation of the "learning hockey stick" in this book. This is a thing R and a friend of hers have talked about, where you put in effort and don't see any results... until suddenly, after a long time, you do. Anyway, I was amazed when R's friend immediately knew what she was talking about with this because it was an unknown concept to me - but maybe not such an unknown concept to others, haha.

I heard there's a new Temeraire book out?