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; I 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 and to Omaha Library for having the digital audiobook in its catalog.

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