Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties
I read this for book club, and I’ll just say: this wasn’t for me. I had hopes that it would be fun and/or funny—it’s about a girl whose family runs a wedding event business (she’s the photographer), and they set her up on a blind date but she accidentally kills the guy, and her mom and three aunts help dispose of the body—all right before/during a massive wedding weekend! But like at no point does she ever act like an actual human being; even the flashbacks find her acting like someone on a teen soap. Like, there is filial duty and then there is codependency. The whole thing is totally contrived and very predictable, except for when it’s ridiculous and frustrating (everything with the sheriff). This book made me DISLIKE A LESBIAN. I did not enjoy reading this at all and honestly would have given up if I didn’t, you know, run the book club. That being said, of the two friends I’ve spoken to about this, one felt the same way I did, and the other LOVED it. The mix of (attempted) dark comedy and sappy romance wasn’t my personal fave, but YMMV. C.
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