I finished it! My Review: 5 stars!

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First snow just started in Kolpino, St. Petersburg, Russia. The kids are crazy happy.

I'm gonna tuck in with some hot chocolate(winter has come!) and read.

"She wasn’t one of the young ladies he’d met in the crowded hall earlier. Those had all been beauties, hoping to catch his eye. And she—whoever she was—was not a beauty. Her dark hair was swept into a no-nonsense knot at the back of her neck. Her lips were thin and her nose was sharp and a bit on the long side. She was dressed in a dark blue gown trimmed in ivory—no lace, no ribbons, just simple fabric. Even the cut of her gown bordered on the severe side: waist pulled in so tightly he wondered how she could breathe, sleeves marching from her shoulders to her wrists without an inch of excess fabric to soften the picture." 

I'm really liking the fact that she's not beautiful.