Thanks to St. Martin's Press for the free advance copy of this book. 

It's the summer of 1991 and Cassie is planning to spend the summer before college working at the mall with her boyfriend. But before the first day even begins, she find herself jobless and boyfriendless. Her plan B job, though, might just turn out to be infinitely more exciting. 

This book was absurd and I loved it. It's set entirely within the mall and involves everything from a secret bar for employees in the basement to a decades-old treasure hunt with Cabbage Patch Kids as clues. Cassie is smart and clueless, easy to root for and easy to get frustrated with - and the same is true for most of her fellow mall denizens. 

This book is classic McCafferty, deeply sarcastic, viscerally embarrassing, and full of feelings the characters don't know how to deal with. It's also set in Pineville, NJ, the setting of her Jessica Darling books, so many supporting characeters' surnames will be familiar to her fans. (None other than a young Bethany Darling makes an appearance within the first few chapters!)

This is the ideal book to devour in one lazy summer sitting, which is precisely what I did.