Loved itAnd I loved Dale for Aunties.
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Dial A for Aunties (2021)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive "What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When 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 accidentally shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding that Meddy, her Ma, and her aunties are working, at an island resort on the California coastline. It is the biggest job yet for their 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 aunties' perfect buttercream-cake 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?"--
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- 336 pages
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Loved itI actually read Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto back when that came out and I really liked it. I never continued that series, but I am reading this now.
Loved itI also loved Die for Aunties, but that's more like contemporary.
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Loved itDial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Santano. It's very hilarious, much like Crazy Rich Asians. I'd say if you like the movie, I think you'll really enjoy this book. It's a fun time. You'll laugh.
Loved itIt was not the most like amazing book I have ever read, but it was super enjoyable. I wasn't all that interested in the romantic storyline in this book because like the wedding not person included in the wedding but like somehow related is the main character's like lost love from college and I just don't feel like it really provided much for the story.