A review by readingwithhippos
The Butterfly Bride by Vanessa Riley

3.0

To avoid being forced into a marriage to one of her father’s old cronies, Frederica, the illegitimate daughter of a duke, hatches a plan to advertise in the newspaper for a husband and be married by Yuletide. Her good friend Jasper is enlisted to chaperone her as she meets her various suitors. Jasper is a widower with young children and a lot of complicated feelings—he wants Frederica, but he still loves his late wife, he wants a mother for his children, but he doesn’t want to burden Frederica, you get the picture. This is one of those “it’s painfully obvious to everyone but us that we should be together” romances, and I’ll admit I got a little impatient, but I really enjoyed reading a historical romance set in Britain that includes POC characters.