THE AUNTIES ARE BACK! I adore Jesse's debut novel, Dial A for Aunties. I love that they're all back for the wedding in this one. This time they're here to stop a mafia family. If anyone can do it, it's them!

I wanted to love this so much but it was just so over the top for me. Entertaining but I felt myself cringing a whole lot - Meddy needs some damn boundaries with her family! This one takes place at Meddy and Nathan’s wedding in England and involves the mafia and class A knockoffs and a whole lot of Ma’s TCM. Hilarious misadventures but it gave me anxiety!

Whoop whoop! My stomach truly hurts after laughing so hard! I laughed more than a regular dental patient who just exposed to extra laughing gas. My eyes are still watery! My cheeks hurt. That was absolutely so much fun!

When I read some chapters of this laugh out loud uncontrollably, incredibly hilarious book, I dropped my e-reader off and a few times I personally dropped down off the couch and found myself trapped in another hysterical laughing crisis.

Mark my words: THIS BOOK IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF REAL FUN!

If you read the first, you already know Meddy Chan, her traditional, unconventional, totally sweet but also batshit crazy family members, including her ma and her three but one of a kind aunts.

At the end of this book, we witnessed the ladies finally got away with Ah Guan’s murder ( that assaulting sleaze- ball dug his own grave by massing with wrong girl and very wrong family) and Meddy finally introduced her family to her love of her life Nathan who finally proposed.

We got some snippets of this book to learn how wedding gown shopping of Meddy goes on and we learn more about aunties’ strikingly purpendecilar ( just like Deep Purple’s album) outfit choices and eye- bleedingly gorgeous hats.

After reading those pages, I was so excited for the second book. The story concept is great mash up of Crazy Rich Asians meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with Weekend at Bernie’s vibes ( when you read third uncle’s abduction parts you’ll probably understand this reference)

Meddy and Nathan will get marry at Oxford Christ Church. Even though Meddy’s ma and aunties try to steal the show with eye-bleeding-ly sparkling purple costumes and Komodo dragon hats and fake British accents ( their favorite idiomatic expression is “dog’s bollocks! “ and unfortunately they insist to repeat those terms in front of Nathan’s ultra posh, aristocrat family members) , they already hired a great family of five as wedding vendors. So what could go wrong!

Well, let me rephrase my question: when aunties involve into an incident what could go right? Because this sweet family of five seems like tight- knit mafia family who chose this wedding to conduct their next shady business: they plan to execute someone important who will attend to the wedding and if Meddy tries to tell anything to Nathan, they threaten her to talk to the authorities about Ah Guan’s suspicious murder. Both of her family and Nathan will go to the prison because of her mistake!

Poor Meddy still gets haunted from her past but she has to do something to stop this dangerous people ruin her wedding by saving the person’s life they’ve targeted!

Thankfully team of aunties are already experienced to get away with murder. As intimidating First Aunt acts like someone between Vito Corleone meets Downtown Abbey’s Maggie Smith, Second Aunt keeps launching into another Tai Chi move. Ma keeps smuggling pots in her panties and Fourth Aunt keeps getting drunk and tying the kidnapped men with cable cords she carried in her First Class fake Louis Vuitton baggages. So everything is under control! They can stop the execution and the wedding may go as it’s planned without any incident! Well, think again!

I already gave enough away! But I’m telling you my friends, this book is the funniest, the most entertaining, hilarious thing I’ve lately read! It guarantees long and unstoppable laugh out loud moments!

I think I never say no to another sequel! Aunties’ adventures are more addictive than NYC’s Levain Bakery cookies! ( if you already tasted those cookies, you would easily understand how I adored this book!)

Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

It is finally Meddy’s turn. While she has planned and photographed tons of weddings, now she needs to find the vendors that will make her day perfect. When her aunts plan a meeting with what turns out to be the perfect vendors, Meddy is thrilled. Until the night before the wedding when she overhears one of them talking about taking someone out at the wedding. Will Meddy and her aunts be able to stop them?

When a huge book slump hit and it took me 10 days to read a single book, I knew I needed to pull in the big guns for my next read. Well let me tell you, Jesse Q. Sutanto did not disappoint! I just loved catching up with Meddy and her amazing family and thre antics they get into! I don’t want to give anything away but if you loved Dial A For Aunties you don’t miss to miss this sequel!

This series is not for me. I found the first book to be unbelievably silly and this one follows suit. Book 2 of the series picks up with preparations for Meddy and Nathan’s wedding. The family of wedding planners hires another Asian family of wedding planners and everything seems like it is going to be perfect. The night before the wedding though, Meddy overhears Staphanie (other wedding planner family’s photographer) having a very shady phone call about something going down at the wedding. It turns out other Asian family isn’t wedding planners but mafia and they are going to kill someone at the wedding. Due to various threats Meddy cannot tell Nathan and she ends up running around like a lunatic with her aunts the whole of her wedding day. I just found it too dumb and annoying, especially Meddys inner monologues, to enjoy at all. And honestly poor Nathan.