I really adored the Cabbage Patch kid treasure hunt plot and the Troy subplot, but I felt like a few of the others could have been dropped. The book takes place in entirely one setting over about six weeks but there’s so much going on in that six weeks it’s a mess. So many plot threads that most of them don’t really go that far. I enjoyed the book, but there was A LOT going on. The characters themselves seemed to be creations of the shops they worked at, fitting the aesthetics perfectly. I loved seeing all the cute specialty shops and it pains me that most malls today are so bland in comparison.
The mall is alive with different shops, characters and a perfect place for all of Cassie’s story to unfold. It’s a challenge to do a book with only one setting, but McCafferty handles that well. Despite the disparity in my age, I definitely hung out at a mall a lot and this book definitely reminded me of those days. This book is a perfect time capsule to see what it was like, or to fuel your nostalgia. I like to think of myself as a 90s kid, but the truth is I grew up in the early 2000s because I was born in the 90s. The Mall by Megan McCafferty is so 90s it hurts. "The boy and girl Most Likely to Succeed, as voted by our Pineville High School classmates and forever immortal-ized in the yearbook superlatives." I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Megan McCafferty, beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Jessica Darling series, takes readers on an epic trip back in time to The Mall. Set entirely in a classic “monument to consumerism,” the novel follows Cassie as she finds friendship, love, and ultimately herself, in the most unexpected of places.
In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after.īut you know what they say about the best laid plans. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. Scrunchies, mixtapes and 90210 are, like, totally fresh. New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty returns to her roots with this YA coming of age story set in a New Jersey mall. Genres: Coming of Age, Contemporary, Young Adult FictionĪlso by this author: Bumped, Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
Published by Wednesday Books on July 28, 2020
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