There’s no worry that maybe someone won’t swallow the increasingly ridiculous lies, no worry that Nathan’s British parents will hold a grudge against the increasingly ridiculous antics of the aunties, no worry that the planned mob hit at the wedding will actually come off. There’s no point where a reader worries that Meddy - or any of the Chans, really - could possibly face repercussions for any of the wild things that happen in this book. Some of it, though, is that the overall zaniness of the sequel veers from a dark comedy into no-stakes insanity. An accidental murder, with overbearing, well-meaning aunties doing their nosy best to help? Just genius. Some of it’s just the lightning-in-a-bottle perfection of the first one. Look, it’s not as good as Dial A For Aunties. So they meet with a weirdly symmetrical Indo family who also do weddings, also have misspelled names and punny ads, and, as it turns out, also have a dark secret, and one implausible lie leads to another until chaos ensues at the gorgeous British wedding. When Four Aunties and A Wedding opens, Meddy and Nathan are planning their destination wedding in the UK, but although the aunties do weddings themselves, they want to be guests and not wedding vendors. My review is here, but the short summary is that you should go read it and laugh hysterically. I can’t imagine this would make any sense without reading Dial A For Aunties. Jesse Q Sutanto’s newest book, Four Aunties and a Wedding, is the sequel to dark comedy Dial A For Aunties.
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