Dial A for Aunties Series

Here's a roundup of all three books in Jesse Q. Sutano's Dial A for Aunties series.

More About Dial A for Aunties

In Dial A for Aunties, Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers.

But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?

Thoughts About Dial A for Aunties

If you have a...wild...family like mine you will spend a bit of time debating which aunt is you, your mom or your Aunt Eleanor. This book is a hoot! Laugh out loud funny. Yes, the premise is crazy and just when you think things can't get any worse BOOM another wacky situation.

But I give the aunties all the credit for this book. Even without an inconvenient dead body, this book would be fun just to watch their antics as they work at an elaborate wedding.

Have a bad day at work? Feeling blue because it's raining? Burn supper? Pick up this book and laugh your way to realizing things could be so much worse.

More About Four Aunties and a Wedding

Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. In Four Aunties and A Wedding, instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name.

Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family—actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene—over their dead bodies—and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.

Thoughts About Four Aunties and a Wedding

The aunties are back with more chaotic plans when they get involved with the Asian Mafia just when they're trying to put their best foot forward for Meddy's wedding in Oxford. Again, just when you thought things couldn't get any worse...Meddy and her aunties have to juggle Meddy's wedding, culture shock and the Mafia. And there's a fun twist at the end.

But beneath all the craziness, there is a peek at the loving relationships the characters share, even if they keep them hidden. Although she doesn't focus on it, Sutanto does a great job giving us hints about the relationships of many of the characters. There were characters I was ready to dislike but just one or two effective scenes melted my heart. You just want to grab everyone in a big group hug.

Jesse Q. Sutanto had me laughing out loud and turning paging like there was no tomorrow. Her books are like a bag of potato chips. You aren't putting it down until you've finished the whole thing. You're reading page one then a few hours later you hit the last page and ask yourself, "What? Did I just read the whole book?" I can't wait to start the next book! If you haven't read Dial A for Aunties I recommend you read that first so you know all the characters' backstories as it plays a part in this book.

More about The Good, the Bad and the Aunties

In The Good, the Bad and the Aunties, after an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt’s shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts—he’s determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing his courtship.

 His grand gesture goes awry however, when it’s discovered that not all the gifts were meant for Second Aunt and the Chans—one particular gift was intended for a business rival to cement their alliance and included by accident. Of course the Aunties agree that it’s only right to return the gift—after all, anyone would forgive an honest mistake, right? But what should have been a simple retrieval turns disastrous and suddenly Meddy and the Aunties are helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta’s most powerful business factions. The fighting turns personal, however, when Nathan and the Aunties are endangered and it’s up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all.  Determined to rescue her loved ones, Meddy embarks on an impossible mission—but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is truly impossible…

Thoughts About The Good, the Bad and the Aunties

Everyone's going home to Jakarta for the new year and there are varying degrees of culture shock for everyone (remember, the aunties haven't lived there for decades). This book has an aaahhh factor as a few love stories are woven into the plot. It's great to see the aunties remembering growing up in Jakarta and see them - through Meddy's eyes - as young girls and as someone besides aunties.

If you need a smile, pick up The Good, the Bad and the Aunties