Four Aunties and a Wedding
Ratings34
Average rating3.8
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Ratings34
Average rating3.8
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.
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I laughed out loud multiple times. I was also totally wrong about the solution to the mystery. The Aunties are trying their best to protect someone in this one and they get themselves into so many hijinks along the way. This one is better than the first one!
Ahh... I'm torn. I found some parts to be funny and endearing. But most of the times I just feel like... the whole story is over-the-top ridiculous. Granted, that may be what the author aimed to do – to showcase the eccentricity of the these aunties, but I just can't wrap my head around it. It's a chaotic mess, honestly.
On what supposed to be the BIGGEST day of your life, you're juggling the possibilities of a mafia family wanting to take out a guest during your wedding day and baby-sitting your over-the-top, eccentric, komodo-dragon-hat-slash-fascinator wearing aunties and mother. Yikes. And then you got these normal, unassuming in-laws. And then everything got messed up.
And your aunties got high on Mary-Joanna and your mother got drunk from a glass of champagne. Fun, fun, fun all around. As I said, chaotic mess.
Meh... I had really high hopes based off the first book and this one was just not it for me.
I felt that while the humour in the first one made me laugh out loud, in this one that didn't happen.
3.5/5 ⭐
I was disappointed by the lack of Nathan in this book. I was looking forward to see more of their relationship but he was hardly in this book. And when he was he felt too nice. He never gets mad at her and doesn't really care when she's not there for most of their wedding. Also none of the guests ever noticed that the bride was gone for almost all of the wedding? The book was very plot heavy but I guess I didn't care about the plot that much. The plot twists were so absurd that they felt ridiculous instead of shocking. I can take accidental murder but the mafia that's not actually mafia but just a random family turned assassins avenging their son's death!?!? That's just a little too far-fetched for me. The wedding planner family felt extremely underdeveloped. The Aunties were so annoying in this book especially since they were all drunk/high for half of it. It felt like they made the stupidest choices possible in every situation. The ending felt rushed as there was no resolution with Nathan's family.
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2 primary booksAunties is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by Jesse Q. Sutanto.
