Okay, so full confession I stopped reading Dial A for Aunties several times. It just wasn’t the right timing and I couldn’t get past all of the brand name dropping. It was too much.

I did like Sutanto’s writing style, so I grabbed FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING to give it another go. While there was still some brand name dropping (hello a thousand descriptions of fake LV luggage was too much) buuuuut… I LAUGHED OUT LOUD SO MANY TIMES with this novel.

The Aunties and their over the top fascinators, their purple dresses- Sutanto’s descriptions and mental “conversations” for Meddy Chan were just perfection.

I loved it and devoured it in a day. This is why you should ALWAYS give authors a second chance. Sometimes the first novel just isn’t the right fit for you, but you can find an Four Aunties gem like this one!

Meddy and Nathan are getting married and there’s of course the large, extended families to blend together in the midst of a beautiful British setting (and Nathan’s uber prim and proper family!).

I love how the aunties BRING IT mafia style and they sure do own it!

Highly recommend this romcom for the laugh out loud points, the audiobook narration is fantastic, the diverse cast of characters and Sutanto’s glimpse into her own familial experiences and endearing characters.

The hilarious aunties are back in this follow-up to Dial A for Aunties. If you haven’t read the first book in the series, I recommend you skip this review. I will avoid spoilers for this book but it will include some allusions to the first book.

We are reunited with Meddy as she prepares for her wedding to Nathan in England and of course, Meddy’s mom and her mom’s sisters are in tow. The things the five of them get into are pure chaos and certainly something that reads more like a script for comedy than a novel.

The book is pretty stressful for me from the main conflict with the mafia and the decisions Meddy and her aunts make. Fortunately, the shenanigans the Aunts pull lighten the mood, but if you are like me, you’ll be yelling at your book in frustration. Meddy is the same as she is in the last book as she tries to balance her culture and how she was raised with protecting someone from being murdered at her wedding, which includes a lot of sneaking around and lying.

Overall, this is a quick, plot-driven read with comedic phrases spread throughout.

As like the original book, this is a funny, out-of-this-world story of Meddy and Nathan's wedding. While I did not enjoy this book as much as its predecessor, it was still good to see the aunties and Meddy again and see what happens to Meddy and Nathan. The hijinks are always a little over the top when you get the aunties together and when a wedding is involved. I just hope we'll get another aunties book!

3.5 stars

After really loving Dial A for Aunties, I couldn't wait to check out this one. However, this one didn't work quite as well for me. There was still a lot of laugh out loud moments with Meddy and her aunties, but the conflict felt like it dragged way longer this time. You definitely have to suspend your belief for this series, but overall they're still a fun time.

I look forward to reading more by Sutanto!

Enjoyed this book - had me laughing on one page and gasping the next. Sutanto has perfected the art of the RomComMystery and I’m here for it!!

Laugh out loud funny!!! Everyone needs to get their hands on this book and the first one! I highly recommend to any romcom lovers out there or anyone looking for a fun read!

While this isn't on OMG Amazing, groundbreaking book, I thoroughly enjoy these stories and they're very comforting

This continues to be just the cutest cozy mystery series! I love learning more about the Chinese-Indonesian culture from author Jesse Q. Sutanto and through Meddy Chan and her family.

I think I enjoyed this book even more than the first, and had quite a few lol moments while reading.

*many thanks to Berkley/Netgalley for the gifted copy for review

Meddy Chen has worked at countless weddings, but it’s finally time for her own. Her mother and aunties find a Chinese-Indonesian family-run wedding company for Meddy’s wedding. The family is a mirror image of Meddy’s, including Staphanie, their wedding photographer, who can relate to Meddy’s problems with her family. However, the night before the wedding, Meddy overhears Staphanie talk about taking out a target at the wedding. Staphanie’s family isn’t a wedding vendor. They’re actually mafia, using Meddy’s wedding to murder someone. Meddy’s aunties and mother have to help her figure out who the target is and stop the mafia family before they ruin Meddy’s wedding.

This story was a funny sequel, though not as funny as the first one. A lot of the humour from the first book came from the unexpected things that the aunties did to cover up the murder. I was expecting them to be outrageous in this story. However, there were some laugh out loud moments.

I also found this story much more intense than the first one. A lot of the antics that they did to try to figure out who the target was were more serious than funny. I couldn’t see how they were going to get out of this mess. In the end, the explanation made sense to me so I was pleased with what happened. I hope there will be another book in this series because these are such fun characters!

Four Aunties and a Wedding is a great rom com sequel to Dial A for Aunties!

Thank you Berkley Books for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It was good to catch up with the Aunties and Meddy and Nathan again, while at times throughout the book, I felt like the aunties and Meddy were giving me some major anxiety, and I wanted to scream at Meddy to tell Nathan what was going on, I did enjoy the book. I would have liked to go in more depth about the reason why Nathan's parents didn't get along with Meddy's family and would have liked to see a resolution for that plot.

The sequel missed the score. The elements that made the first book magical were pushed to overdone heights in the sequel. However, Sutanto clearly has more ideas for the series and the next book may restore the series to its original appeal.

After reading Dial A for Aunties I knew this one was a must! I loved the absurdity of it. If possible, this one was even more hilarious. I love the unique characters, the cultural references, and the ability to weave in a mystery but still making it light hearted.

Love love love these books!

I continued to love the bond between the aunties, but I found this entire story implausible and was unable to get behind it - the first in the series was a series of conveniences that was entertaining and believable enough, this went too far past reality. Overall, it was entertaining and I laughed while listening, but probably don't need to pick up any other installments in the series.

Meddy's turn to have is finally here! As a wedding photographer, she has been to a ton of weddings, but now she gets to have her own. So you can say it's a bit of a let down that she finds out her wedding vendors (a Chinese-Indonesian family company) are planning to kill someone at her wedding.
This is the sequel to "A for Aunties," which I found delightful. It has all of the hijinks, but the hijinks don't seem as smart or quick witted as the first book. It was fun but I wasn't having a great time like last time.

The Aunties are back! This book was just as fun as the last, I can totally see these Aunties in a TV series!!

Meddy Chan is ready to marry Nathan, In England, no less. Somehow, her aunties pull off a great coup and find yet another wedding planning family to work on Meddy's wedding. However, this group sports uncles instead of aunties. The zaniness is on display as they all touch down at Heathrow and never lets up. Soon after Meddy overhears the other family photographer, Staphanie, talking about targets, she realizes that they aren't just family, but Family. With her ma and aunts unwavering assistance, Meddy tackles another movie like mix up with lots of quick thinking. Be sure to hone in on the hats in the cover art, they play their role spectacularly!

I really enjoyed Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto for its over-the-top zany characters involved in wacky capers. So I was excited for the second book in the series, Four Aunties and A Wedding. Unfortunately, it was all farce and very little heart.

In this installment of the Aunties series, Meddelin is marrying Nathan in an elaborate Chinese-Indonesian family wedding, hosted by his prim-and-proper parents in England. Of course Meddy's mother and her sisters are very involved in the wedding planning, and their taste is over-the-top in every way - gowns, hats, flowers, etc. When crazy things begin happening with the wedding vendors, everything goes off the rails and all kinds of shenanigans occur.

I'm glad I read this to know the next part of Meddy and Nathan's story. However, the craziness with the aunties was so absurd, it was just silly and overshadowed the wedding.

I listened to the audiobook with Risa Mei continuing her spot-on narration with Chinese/Indonesian accents and slang; probably would have DNFd if reading in print. If there's a third book in the series, which seems inevitable, I think I'll pass.

Thanks to Berkley Books and NetGalley for the review copy of this novel; all opinions are my own..

I was a HUGE fan of Dial A for Aunties--with the perfect mix of humor, mystery, and romance, it made my list of favorite reads of 2021. Unfortunately, I think this an instance where the needn't have been a sequel. Four Aunties and a Wedding is a stressful, implausible read without the magic or sensical plot of the first. In this book, we see Meddy on her wedding day to college sweetheart Nathan, who she reconnected with in the first book. But when Meddy discovers her wedding planner is part of the mafia and planning a hit at the wedding, things go awry. Meddy bends over backwards to keep this secret and keep things from going wrong--hiding the whole thing from Nathan, who gets more and more PO'd as the day goes on. What a lovely wedding day. The whole thing is just so frustrating, you want to shake Meddy and say, "Girl! It's your wedding day! STOP!" And the explanation at the end doesn't make much sense, either. I'd certainly give the author another go, but this seemed like a case where an unnecessary sequel was forced into publication, and I'd rather have read something new by her.

Thanks to Berkley for my eARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

3 stars - 5/10

3.5 stars. This book like the first in the series was hilarious but also far fetched but hey that’s the beauty of fiction. There were parts that just made me so mad for the groom cause like you have a whole ass drama happening here and he should know about it!! Anyway, I think the author does a great job in keeping you hooked and laughing. These would make for perfect romcoms. I loved the aunties and Meddy’s mom. I loved the way Meddy towards the end realized how much she loves them exactly the way they are. When her mom and the aunties were mad at her for standing up for them by talking back to her mom in law I was cracking up because in my family the same thing would happen. This is a fun read, great for a summer bonfire!

I loved Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties, so I was excited to continue the series with Four Aunties and a Wedding. While the first book was delightfully improbable, emphasis on delightful, this installment was more improbable than anything else. While there were plenty of funny/sweet moments, the plot was stretched really thin in places and there were too many scenes that felt like filler. The aunties' antics were similarly over-the-top, e.g. the British slang they adopted for Meddy's Oxford wedding. I will continue to read the author's books, but unfortunately this one was hit-and-miss for me.