Dial A for Aunties *DNF*

Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto *DNF*

G👀dreads

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!

Okay, the number structure is making me itch. I want to correct it to: one, 2,000, three, four... I won't deduct any points for that though! 

It's kind of giving me Rich Crazy Asian vibes and I thought that was cute movie. 

Genre: Fiction, Mystery (but not cozy), Humor, Romance, Adult.

DNF

No, No, No >>Return. Not Rich Crazy Asians, but Bat Shit Crazy Family. When the aunties decided to cut the body up and put it in trash bags...Not funny. No.Can.Do.

There was one funny part though. The Mom set up a dating profile under the daughter's name and had been chatting with a guy, as if she was the daughter. Cuz you know, medaling mother wanting to marry off her daughter. When they set up date, that's when Mom told her. She was horrified but decided to go because their whole family is in the wedding planning business (Cake, Hair and Makeup, Flowers, Photographer, Singer) and this guy SAYS he owns the hotel where their next wedding is. (Spoiler - he doesn't.) It's the biggest wedding they have done so she doesn't want to chance losing the business if she cancels. Jump ahead at the end of the date, She's been a jerk bragging about how rich he is and she's a little tipsy. He insists he'll drive her home. He attempts to assault her so she tazzes him and he crashes the car and dies. That's not the funny part. The funny part is that the Mom told her she thought he was a nice guy, he was going to cook eggplant for you. What? "Ya, I thought old family recipe." So she goes into the messages and her Mom was telling him how much she *LOVES* eggplant. 🍆She's mortified. She's trying to explain to her mom what the eggplant emoji means. She says to herself "I can't believe I'm 23 (?) and I can't say penis to Mom. AND I'm suddenly ashamed of my generation". Anyhow, the messages back and forth about how much she really likes eggplant and looking forward to his eggplant were pretty entertaining. No wonder the guy thought she'd have sex with him ASAP. Spoiler, they don't dispose of the body that way. They hide it in the walk in freezer. Google Spoilers if you're interested but after I read the spoilers I was glad I ditched it. 

🎧Risa Mei

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