My first time reading this author and it was a real rollercoaster! An enjoyable read, though I did find the aunties a tad too over-the-top one time too many to count... Being Indian, I know exactly all the ruckus aunties can get up to, but this one felt a little bit stretched. Might've worked better as a visual on a screen, and reading it over and over got tiresome at times... But it was funny, I can't fault it that!

This was a mixed bag compared to the first book, but I'm giving it 3 stars because of my enjoyment of the first half alone. The humor is exactly what I was hoping for, and I laughed out loud more than once. Meddy's aunties are still ridiculous and lovable for it, even more so now that they're trying to be proper British for Nathan's family. This goes as well as might be expected.

The plot/mystery in this book is really predictable, and while that doesn't necessarily have to be a problem, the repetitiveness of the events definitely was. Meddy and Nathan kept having the same conversation, the aunties kept landing in the same situation, and the only novelty was how the author tried to pretend like something new was happening by ending a chapter with Meddy's (exaggerated) reaction to a situation, only for us to find out, two paragraphs later, that we've been through this before. If Dial A for Aunties was ridiculous, the sequel amps this up until everything is pure chaos, and there's very little substance left, even though there was potential for more. For example, there's a weird tension surrounding Annie, Nathan's mom, and the way Nathan treats Meddy's mom, which could have been a very interesting subplot to explore. (Does Annie feel her son doesn't love her? Is he secretly adopted? I want to know!)

For something still categorized as a romance, there was precious little of it, despite the main event being Meddy and Nathan's wedding. Unfortunately, we don't get to see much of them as a couple, even though I think that would've definitely improved the book.

Still a good time, but needed to be dialed back.

I was so pleased to get an ARC of Four Aunties and a Wedding! I loved Dial A for Aunties, I love how hysterical and over the top these books are, that you have to suspend belief to read them, and that they are 100% entertainment.

After getting away with actual murder in the last book, Meddy and (sickly) sweet Nathan are getting married in Harry Potter-style Oxford and the aunties are there to add drama and mishaps of course.

There’s more murder-related shenanigans in the form of a shady group trying to use the wedding as a venue for execution (like I said, suspend belief!) but the aunties are there like a bumbling MI5!

It’s a fun read, without particular depth, but I don’t think that’s needed here. I hope the aunties will be back for book 3!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Meddy and her crazy and hilarious family are back for a wedding no one will ever forget.

After the events of the first book, Dial A For Aunties, Meddy has finally everything she ever wanted: some kind of independence from her overprotective and interfering mother and aunties, although she still goes to dinner to her mother’s every evening, and the man of her dreams. Meddy and Nathan are getting married and her mother seems to have found the perfect catering company. It’s a family company and Meddy quickly starts to consider the photographer, Staphanie, a friend. Of course, weddings can be stressful and with her family being her family, things won’t be easy or relaxing. For one thing, the wedding is in Oxford, where Nathan’s more conservative family lives, and Meddy’s mother and aunts have been learning to speak with a British accent and a vocabulary that had me with tears in my eyes from laughing. Also, there are the ridiculous huge hats that they have bought for the wedding. And when Meddy thinks that things couldn’t get any worse than her and Nathan’s family not getting along, she finds out that Staphanie is not who she really says she is and that her wedding day may turn into a mafia gun fight.

If I had to describe this book with two words, I would say HILARIOUS and ADDICTIVE! It’s been a while since I laughed so much reading a book. The situations that Meddy and her family get into are incredibile, ridiculous and entertaining. Meddy’s aunts and mother are fantastic characters. They are loud, meddling, and they talk about murdering people like one talks about going grocery shopping, and you can’t help but love them.

If you’re looking for laugh, romance, and fantastic and lovable characters, then I highly suggest you read Four Aunties and A Wedding… you won’t regret it!

Fun, funny, light-hearted, joyful.and totally uplifting. This book is really easy to read and a pure joy. With many laugh out loud heart warming moments and such great characters.

I enjoyed the first "auntie" book in all its absurdity, but for me this one tipped over into caricature and I didn't find it particularly funny. The mafia input didn't really add anything, but I can imagine the 2 books as a very watchable TV series!
Thank you to netgalley and HQ books for an advance copy of this book.

I was so excited for this sequel, because I loved Dial A For Aunties so much. But this sequel was... not it. Everything I loved about Dial A For Aunties was kind of ruined here. Dial A For Aunties had an amazing balance between, yes, absurdity, but also pulling you in emotionally. In this book, the absurdity was dialed up to 11, and not in a good way. I felt like the aunties, who were really funny in the first book but also still felt like real people, felt more like charicatures here - they were just there to be funny, and they didn't feel fleshed out anymore.

I cared about Meddy and Nathan so much in the first book, so considering they were getting married in this one, I actually wanted to see them together. But that barely happened? We truly saw so little of Nathan, and I think that was such a missed opportunity. In fact, it barely felt like a wedding at all because the mafia plot just completely took over and literally EVERYTHING went wrong. I would have much more enjoyed a good balance with some cute moments as well.

Speaking of the mafia plot, I absolutely despised it, until the very end, which did make up for it somewhat. I think there was so much potential to delve into the differences between Meddy's family and Nathan's family, and to see them clash initially and overcome their differences later on, like discussed in the author's note. I would have loved more focus on that and less focus on the mafia plot.

Meddy is getting married to the love of her life, Nathan. Her Aunts and Mother will be at her wedding. This is going to be the perfect day of Meddy's life.

But somehow the mafia is at her wedding and they must now protect 'The Queen' this will definitely be a wedding you won't forget.

The aunties are back and Sutanto has done it again. A crazy, insane narrative that has you laughing out loud and also feeling sorry for Meddy along the way.

I did not find this novel as funny as the first. But I still loved it and it still had me crying with laughter. I am already hoping for a third installment as I just can't get enough of these characters.

I would definitely recommend reading Dial A for Aunties first, as this book is referenced several times so would be hitting a lot of spoilers, this also means this novel does not work as a stand-alone. But as a series I can't wait to collect everyone.

our Aunties and a wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A wild ride from start to finish, after reading the first instalment of this book last year and loving it I couldn’t wait to read this one. Final thoughts? It was just as good as the first! The book is nonstop madness and had my jaw dropping at all the twists and turns that the plot takes. The wedding + the aunties + the mafia! = an epically funny read that will leave you laughing out loud and wanting more.

Now here’s a sequel that doesn’t just live up to its predecessor but might actually be a wee bit better. How did I determine that? Based on the amount of times I actually laughed out loud while reading…!!! A LOT!

Meddy and her meddling aunts (and mom!) are back in this sequel to Dial A for Aunties. In Four Aunties and a Wedding Meddy is about to marry her college sweetheart, but, alas, the wedding doesn’t go down without a fair amount of complications.

Maybe I found this one especially funny thanks to the amount of British-isms the aunties try and spectactularly fail to pull off. I mean true tears of laughter from over here. And that’s prolly enuff said about this book.

If you need an outrageously hilarious and utterly unbelievable comedy to get you through these uncertain times, then this one will do the job just fine!

Around this time last year, I saw Dial A For Aunties by Jessie Sutanto everywhere. The book sounded hilarious, so I bought a copy and gobbled it up in a single night. When I saw that HQ Digital were doing a tour for Four Aunties and Wedding, I got so excited. This was a book that I knew I was going to read and would have been happy to get on the tour for.

So here I am!

Four Aunties and a Wedding is set a year or so after the first book. Meddy and Nathan have been together for a while, and now they’re getting married. Meddy’s aunties have to get involved, so they introduce them to a family of wedding vendors who Meddy can’t help but find the perfect choice. The months pass, and soon they’re in Oxford preparing for the wedding, and things start to go wrong. This family they’ve hired are the mafia, and they want to use Meddy’s wedding to take someone out. In a panic, she tells her aunts, and they work together to save the day.

This book was just as much of a wild ride as the first one was. The aunties really are so bizarre, but you can’t help but love them, murderous intentions aside. They do their best to try and fix things, and though that often winds up being embarrassing, you can still tell that they’re mostly good people.

What I do like about these books is the family element. I’m not Indo-Chinese, so I don’t know what it would be like to have that sort of close family dynamic, but it’s nice to see. Big Aunt is very much a grandmother-like figure, and she has a few emotional moments in this book. And though the sisters are prone to squabbling, you know they all love each other really. Siblings just love to try and one-up each other. The element I loved the most in this was Meddy coming to terms with the fact she is who she is because of her family. Throughout the first book, and this one, Meddy is always exasperated at her aunts. And I get why. They’re hard work and can behave very odd. But in this book, she comes to respect that they are who they are, and they’re proud of it and that she wouldn’t be who she was without them in her corner. Even if she does prefer things a little quieter.

For a book set during the protagonist’s wedding, I could’ve done with a little more romance. Nathan doesn’t get involved with the mafia stuff, so you don’t see him all that much. When you do, he’s obviously uncomfortable as he doesn’t know what’s going on. It was a little frustrating. I know why Meddy does what she did, but it kind of sucked to be Nathan on his wedding day.

I also wasn’t much of a fan of the mafia aspect. I knew that was in the book, don’t get me wrong. I just thought I’d like it more than I actually did. It wasn’t bad, just didn’t gel with in the same way as the accidental murder in the first book did. Fortunately, the characters were just as wonderful, so that saved it for me.

This was a fun and quick read. It’ll be perfect to take with you on holiday this summer. Just don’t be surprised if anyone looks at you weirdly as you’re laughing so much.

A great fun read!
Nathan and Meddy are getting married , that’s great isn’t it? It would be if Meddy hadn’t got the most eccentric aunts you’ve ever met. So let the fun and games begin.
The wedding is taking place in England , and the aunts are all happy to be travelling. There is a slight problem with the wedding photographer and her family , and what ensues is a humorous and light hearted tale , some parts really made me laugh out loud.

Thanks to NetGalley and HQ.

Never the bride, always the photographer. Meddy Chan never imagined she would wed her college sweetheart. Instead, she hires another family-fun business, appearing like a dream. Everything is going fine until Meddy overhears them taking out a target at her wedding, and suddenly, she is forced to make sure another wedding doesn’t become a crime scene. Can the Chans save the day, or will this become a wedding no one will want to remember?

I was super excited to see what the Chans will get up to in this sequel; having enjoyed the first, deciding to speak so lowly of this was disappointing.

The best part about Dial A for Aunties is getting to lean into the absurdity of it all. It’s so ridiculous, which is what made it so great to read. The Chan are endearing and fun. Four Aunties and a Wedding felt a lot more absurd, and while this isn’t a series where you should be caring about realism., the misadventures in here aren’t as marvellous as it was before. The humour is still the same, but the plot is just too similar, and none of the characters has grown since the events of Dial A. This is more of a personal ick, but the aunts doing strange British accents weren’t funny at all. What made it less enjoyable was the fact it all takes place during the wedding, and no one seems to bat an eye that Meddy, the bride, is barely present. Nate really should’ve kicked up a bigger fuss. I think this would’ve been a lot more fun if the events occurred in the days going up to the wedding because having to witness what should be one of the best days in Meddy’s life go horrifically wrong did not feel fun at all. I’m surprised Sutanto managed to tie everything up in the end because it just sounds miserable.

Overall, Four Aunties was fun, but it wasn’t nearly as enjoyable as the first. The plot is predictable without any redeeming elements and lacklustre development. If anything, this series is truly a test for anyone who wants to practise suspension of disbelief.

Meddelin (Meddy) Chan is part of an LA based family business with her four Aunties – one of these is actually her mother but the four sisters operate as one when with Meddy. This arrangement, along with other unusual features such as the odd spelling of western names, like Madeleine, are part of the strange, indeed idiosyncratic, world in which they live. The Aunties, each convincingly portrayed, are all different in character but united in their zany interpretation of the mores of the world.
The family business is Wedding Management, with each of the five carrying out a different role – Meddy is the photographer. However, when Meddy plans to marry Nathan Chan (no relation just a shortage of surnames) they hire an outside company, a family who have the same racial background. Nathan’s family live in Oxford and the ceremony is scheduled to happen in the Cathedral in Christ Church College, with the Reception in the Master’s Garden. Meddy’s family and the wedding organisers fly over bringing all the accoutrements, including the outlandish outfits designed especially for the Aunties.
So far, so Rom-Com, but hang in there as the story, and the voice in which it is written, starts to descend into chaos; amusing chaos; hysterical chaos; farcical chaos. Meddy’s family discover that the outside company actually know nothing about, and have no talent for, organising weddings, but do appear to be Indo-Chinese mafia planning to kill one of the guests. While the plot continues to cohere, it also falls into set-piece scenes of increasingly ridiculous action as the family attempt to foil the assassination without letting anyone, including Nathan, know that there is a problem.
This is the second book featuring Meddy and her Aunties and there is a strong link between the two. However, anything from the first that you need is revealed neatly and unobtrusively. Writing farce, and that is what this is, requires adroit handling, because the reader has to believe that the events could really happen this way while also laughing at their complete improbability. If you are a narrowly focused reader of crime/mystery novels you will be disappointed; if you are open to new approaches you will be rewarded, as I was, with writing which is skilful, always amusing, and frequently laugh-out-loud.
I would like to thank NetGalley, the publishers and the author for providing me with a draft proof copy for the purpose of this review.

What's the book about?

Nathan and Meddy are getting married! But it's not just family and friends who are looking forward to the wedding; there's another kind of family waiting for these two to tie the knot... the mafia. Wanting to use Meddy's wedding as a cover for their business, they've managed to infiltrate the event. The aunties and Meddy must now outwit the mafia before it's too late.

My thoughts:
Absolutely hilarious and so much fun to be back with the aunties. There were some parts that seemed over the top but that's the charm of the book. It manages to keep the reader hooked because of the chaos and shenanigans. Loved it. Thank you for the ARC!

I really enjoyed the first book, but this follow on just wasn't for me.

The Bride to be and her Aunties got away with a murder in the first book and it was very funny. This book has a similar theme however I found it too over the top in execution. I also didn't like the fact that it takes place in the main at a wedding, and all I could think about was - what about the Bride's dress!

The book is almost 400 pages long and maybe that is where it went wrong for me. It just seemed like a never ending farce that went on for far too long. I felt sorry for the groom Nathan as he hardly saw her Bride as she become embroiled in one after another mishaps that meant she had to constantly leave her own wedding day.

As the wedding is in Oxford UK, the Aunties have learnt colloquial English - which was amusing. With Meddy's family, plus the other families involved this time, it was a big cast of characters with all their interactions to pull off in a book. I can easily see this being a film, but to read all the action was for me laborious.

Was not quite expecting this book to be as funny as it was, the plot was great too.
A romantic novel with humour is just what you need after a long week, this book was so easy reading that if you put it down it was not hard work to pick up where you left off.

This is a wonderful sequel to Dial A For Aunties! Meddy Chan is planning a destination wedding to the UK with her college sweetheart Nathan. She seeks out a wedding company that is similar to her family business. But things change once Meddy overhears a conversation about “putting a hit”! Oh no this is The Family - the Mafia!! Meddy’s Mom and Aunties will try their hardest to not let anything or anyone ruin Meddy’s wedding! The same elements are there - meddling Aunties, up to shenanigans, family drama, & chaos! Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for a gifted copy.

IF you loved the first book, there is no doubt that you will not enjoy this book. This book was so funny just like the first one. I hope everyone picks this book out when it comes out.

Brilliant! Fantastic! Phenomenal! Better than the first one! If you want a book where you laugh your tushi off, read this. If you happen to be British or understand British slang then read this!

The author ramped up the comedy in this one and I was here for every second of it. This book is pure perfection. The best book I've read so far this year.