Remember that time Meddy accidentally killed her blind date?  Well, she’d love it if you could forget all about it.  She’s getting married to her college sweetheart this weekend in England, and on top of the stress of wedding planning, introducing her family to Nathan’s, and hopefully convincing her mother and aunties to stop talking in a weird Cockney accent, now one of her wedding vendors might be in the mafia.  And of course, they want to kill someone at her wedding, and they’ll tell the police about her (ahem) previous infraction if she tips them off.  Can Meddy make it through the wedding with her sanity intact?

I really enjoyed Sutanto’s debut -- I thought it was funny and thoughtful and just a really fun romp.  But some of the emotional aspects really threw me off, namely that

Meddy doesn’t seem at all affected by the fact that she killed someone.

  I’d have to say that I had the same feelings about this book: I really liked the premise but portions of it were too stressful for me to totally give into the rompiness of it.  

The aunties are back in full force, absolutely hilarious and also a little tear-provoking.  The airplane scene was truly laugh-out-loud funny to me.  But the fact that the meat of this book takes place on Meddy’s wedding day was so stressful to me!  Obviously I knew that it would all end up okay, but if I had to deal with all that she did on my wedding day, I’d simply be a puddle.  I think my stress levels prevented me from enjoying the book as much as I expected to from the first 25%.  

I’m rounding this up from 3.5 to 4 stars because I really do think that it’s a “not you but me” situation.  If this series continues, I’ll definitely be picking up the next installment.

Thank you to Berkley and NetGalley for the ARC!

CW:

PTSD, kidnapping, attempted murder, drug use, alcohol consumption