It is not often that both USA Today and NPR recommend the same book, but this one was!! USA Today described it this way: “Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too.”—USA Today (four-star review)” With that kind of a review I was hooked and I laughed out loud several times as I am sure you will too!

Meddelin Chan, Meddy for short, is a photographer working in her family’s wedding business–Don’t leave you big day to chance, leave it to the Chan”s! But sometimes working in the family business means there are few boundaries. With Meddy still unmarried, her mother and her aunties are on a mission to get her married, despite the fact that there is a curse against long, happy marriages that has dogged three generations of her immigrant Indonesian-Chinese family. Nevertheless, Meddy dutifully goes on a blind date her mother arranged, but ends up accidentally killing  him! 

Mayhem ensues as Meddy, her mother, and her aunties must figure out how to dispose of a coprse AND put on a fabulous wedding for over two thousand the following day. Everything would have been fine, except the corpse shows up at the wedding in a cooler along with all the rest of the food, Meddy’s ex-boyfriend–the one she let get away, is also at the wedding and the groom and his groomsmen seem to be bent on destroying the biggest wedding that Meddy’s family has ever had the opportunity of staging.

Will Meddy be able to avoid being charged with murder, reconnect and rekindle her relationship with the love of her life and keep the groomzilla and his posse from ruining a wedding that could finally push the Chan family’s wedding business to the next level? And what about that family curse?

Irreverent, funny, and heartwarming this is a book that you just want to curl up and read in one sitting, along with a good glass of your favorite beverage! Enjoy!

Brenda’s Rating: ***** (5 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Sharon, Marian, Lauren and Keith

Book Study Worthy? Yes

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