Review - The Most Unsuitable Prince by Lisa Oliver

The Most Unsuitable Prince

by Lisa Oliver

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Volume 8 of Another Arranged Marriage

Tags: Fantasy

Posted in Book Reviews on 3 June, 2026

Crown Prince Rupert is in an impossible situation. He has delayed marriage for so long, his aging father is refusing to let him return home without a marriage contract. Rupert doesn’t want to get married. He doesn’t want to change anything about his life of hunting parties. At a ball celebrating the marriage of another royal, Rupert spots Winter across the room. The diminutive young prince is opulently dressed and flitting from one seemingly frivolous conversation to the next, a veritable “peacock” of a man. Rupert has one of his advisors send Winter a marriage contract without ever meeting the prince. He doesn’t plan to have anything to do with his husband after the marriage. It’s all just to satisfy his father’s demand. Winter is not what he seems, so has his own reasons for accepting Rupert’s contract, with one minor change.

“The Most Unsuitable Prince” is an entry in the Another Arranged Marriage Series. It references some events of The Gentlemen’s Agreement but like most books in this series, you can read this one as a stand-alone story. Like most of the stories of the series, this one features an arranged marriage between royals who are relative strangers to each other. The plots usually involve the two men learning unexpected things about each other.

We meet Rupert first. He is the very epitome of a playboy prince. Life is just an endless string of hunting parties at baronial estates around the countryside. It’s the life Rupert is accustomed to, even if it doesn’t really make him happy, and change is hard. Picking Winter out from across a crowded ballroom may have been a purely impulsive decision, but it may prove to be the best one Rupert ever made.

While Rupert may seem like an open book right from the start, it soon becomes very clear that Winter is a young man with secrets. The full extent of Winter’s “family business” doesn’t become clear until near the end of the story. I really like a character that puts on a public facade that makes everyone under-estimate him. It’s really fun watching Rupert’s oafish so-called friends discover that Winter is not someone to trifle with.

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