The Mall by Megan McCafferty

I received a free e-arc of this from Netgalley for review purposes. 

The Mall by Megan McCafferty  takes place in 1991 at the height of a girl's transition from high school to university. Cassie (recently recovered from mono), has a plan. A great plan to spend the summer working with her boyfriend at World's Best Cookie but as we readers know, plans in books never work out. After a few changes to Cassie's plan she ends up on a mall treasure hunt. She meets tons of new people and grows a lot before her great escape to university.

This book was very cute, I was born in '91 so I definitely did not get all the references but I got enough of them that the ones I didn't get did not affect my reading experience. Sorry my grammar is all wrong on this but it's been two very VERY long weeks, and this book really helped me relax. I loved Cassie, she was sassy and fierce and really grew on me, even though I myself am completely different from this character. I really enjoyed Cassie's romps through the mall, each clue was fun and unique. It felt very real, and I loved every single character, both good and bad, they felt very real. The descriptions of the mall made it easy to imagine and I really hope they put a map in the beginning of the mall, I think that'd be so cute in the final version. The story lost my interest  a bit in the middle but after another chapter or two it picked up again. 

Overall this story is a solid 3/5 stars for me.