Four Aunties and a Wedding
The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe--even the mafia--in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.
Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can't believe Staphanie and her family aren't just like her own, they are The Family--actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won't let Meddy's wedding ceremony become a murder scene--over their dead bodies--and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.
Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can't believe Staphanie and her family aren't just like her own, they are The Family--actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won't let Meddy's wedding ceremony become a murder scene--over their dead bodies--and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.
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I want to thank firstly, NetGalley for an ARC for Four Aunties and a Wedding. This is a sequel to Dial A for Aunties. Here is my honest opinion of the book.
Madness, chaos, and murder happened in the first book. The four Aunties drove Meddy crazy and now, Maddie is getting married to her college sweetheart.
Enter the carbon copy of her family: Staphanie and her family who will be the photographer, and her uncles and grandmother will be doing the hair, makeup, catering, and coordinating Meddyâs wedding so that Meddy and her aunties and mother, can just be in the wedding and not lift a finger. Staphanie is Meddyâs counterpart, the second uncle is second auntyâs counterpart, and so on, and so on.
Will her wedding go smoothly? Not if you have those aunties in your wedding party⦠or in your life.
I gritted through the first one in the series and tbh, found them annoying. The only saving grace is when you see at the end of the first book, Nathan is still in love with Meddy as she is with him. In this second book, we find the Aunties and her mother, havenât grown and learned from their first shenanigans and instead, are playing the part of pretending to be part of the Chinese-Indonesian mafias. Itâs just too much. Itâs like Sweet-n-low, as in, itâs too sugary sweet and after a quick while, leaves a weird taste in your mouth and makes you ask, why did you pick it up, to begin with.
I give it a solid three stars because it was just okay. I'm actually being generous with the three stars. I know itâs not a great book when I figured out who Staphanie and her family were after â of the book. To finish it and say, âyep, called it,â is a huge disappointment to me. Itâs supposed to make me say, âwhoa, I did not see that coming, at all.â It was a bit painful to read but I was committed to finishing it so that I could give it a fair review. I was not impressed.
Madness, chaos, and murder happened in the first book. The four Aunties drove Meddy crazy and now, Maddie is getting married to her college sweetheart.
Enter the carbon copy of her family: Staphanie and her family who will be the photographer, and her uncles and grandmother will be doing the hair, makeup, catering, and coordinating Meddyâs wedding so that Meddy and her aunties and mother, can just be in the wedding and not lift a finger. Staphanie is Meddyâs counterpart, the second uncle is second auntyâs counterpart, and so on, and so on.
Will her wedding go smoothly? Not if you have those aunties in your wedding party⦠or in your life.
I gritted through the first one in the series and tbh, found them annoying. The only saving grace is when you see at the end of the first book, Nathan is still in love with Meddy as she is with him. In this second book, we find the Aunties and her mother, havenât grown and learned from their first shenanigans and instead, are playing the part of pretending to be part of the Chinese-Indonesian mafias. Itâs just too much. Itâs like Sweet-n-low, as in, itâs too sugary sweet and after a quick while, leaves a weird taste in your mouth and makes you ask, why did you pick it up, to begin with.
I give it a solid three stars because it was just okay. I'm actually being generous with the three stars. I know itâs not a great book when I figured out who Staphanie and her family were after â of the book. To finish it and say, âyep, called it,â is a huge disappointment to me. Itâs supposed to make me say, âwhoa, I did not see that coming, at all.â It was a bit painful to read but I was committed to finishing it so that I could give it a fair review. I was not impressed.
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