Publication: 28th March 2024 – HQ
It’s Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate…
Fresh from their honeymoon, Meddy and Nathan meet the Aunties in Jakarta for a family celebration. Amid the festivities, an old flame of Second Aunt’s arrives with extravagant gifts. Unfortunately, not all the presents were meant for them.
NOT the time to start an all-out war.
The most important gift goes missing, putting Meddy and the Aunties in the middle of a feud between Jakarta’s most powerful business moguls – and in great danger. To save her loved ones, Meddy must organise a search party, a break-in and a kidnapping. It might sound like an impossible mission– but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is impossible… just complicated.
Meddy and her loud and feisty mother and aunties are back for a new adventure full of trouble, misunderstandings, and lots of fun that never fails to keep me engrossed in the story.
The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties picks up a month after Nathan and Meddy’s chaotic wedding. At the end of their month-long honeymoon, Meddy and Nathan arrive in Jakarta to celebrate the Chinese New Year with her very large family. Nathan fits right in with all her aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, and nieces and celebrations are in full swing when Second Aunt’s childhood boyfriend, Abraham Lincoln (yes, that’s his name!), turns up full of gifts and determined to win Second Aunt over. However, one of the gifts given away was actually for a business partner, Julia Child (the craziness of those names had me chuckling every time I read them) and he needs it back right away. Except, it’s not easy to get the packet back and Meddy and her family get involved in a years-long war between business rivals with ridiculous names who insist they are no gangsters, but law-abiding citizens (even though they go around with fully-armed guards).
I love this series. It makes me laugh, it keeps on edge with all its twists and turns, and it makes me wish for more adventures for Meddy and her family. Meddy thought that after all the trouble at her wedding she could finally enjoy time with her family and she would have loved to avoid getting involved in yet another complicated and dangerous situation, that now involves gangsters, kidnapping, and disguises. The ending was adorable and perfect and, hopefully, not the end of this highly entertaining series. I can’t wait for more adventures and laughs!
A huge thank you to HQ and NetGalley for providing me with a proof of this fantastic novel.
Jesse Q. Sutanto is the author of adult, YA, and children’s middle grade books. She has an MSt in Creative Writing from Oxford University and a BA in English Lit from Berkeley, though she hasn’t found a way of saying that without sounding obnoxious. The film rights to her women’s fiction, Dial A for Aunties, was bought by Netflix in a competitive bidding war. Her adult books include Dial A for Aunties, its sequel, Four Aunties and a Wedding, and Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. Her YA books include The Obsession, The New Girl, and Well, That Was Unexpected. Her MG books include Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit and its sequel, Theo Tan and the Iron Fan. Find her on Twitter @thewritinghippo and on Instagram @jesseqsutanto.
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Love the cover!! Will have to add to the wishlist x
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