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A review by bookishlychar
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.0
This is the second book in the Aunties series by Jesse Q. Sutanto and sadly it fell a bit flat for me. I loved the first book in this series because it was absolutely ridiculous, but I connected with it some how. In this book, it was ever more ridiculous and over the top and I felt it was being ridiculous to get laughs rather than trying to get out of the unbelievable situations.
I love Meddy's relationships with her family, and how accepting (and sometimes tolerant) Nathan was of her family's antics. I found I liked the parts where they were being themselves in their own way (like getting English lessons, their fascinators) over the stuff that they did to "prevent" a murder.
I also didn't feel the stakes in this book. They were trying to prevent a murder, but it (and the wedding) fell to the back burner to get singular laughs of the aunties just doing out of place things.
This was still a fun novel, and a quick read, but it just lacked some of the lustre of the first one. I see there is a third coming out and I am interesting to see what will happen in that one!
I love Meddy's relationships with her family, and how accepting (and sometimes tolerant) Nathan was of her family's antics. I found I liked the parts where they were being themselves in their own way (like getting English lessons, their fascinators) over the stuff that they did to "prevent" a murder.
I also didn't feel the stakes in this book. They were trying to prevent a murder, but it (and the wedding) fell to the back burner to get singular laughs of the aunties just doing out of place things.
This was still a fun novel, and a quick read, but it just lacked some of the lustre of the first one. I see there is a third coming out and I am interesting to see what will happen in that one!