One Last Stop
Ratings335
Average rating4
So I did like this book and thought it was good and 100% recommend it and blah blah blah but I've just been thinking about it the past few days and I don't love it as much as I did when I first finished it? I think Jane was very manic pixie dream girl and I just didn't love that. So yeah, I dropped a star.
One Last Stop is a cute and charming wlw romance that intertwines reality with a sprinkle of magic.
The story focused August Landry, a 23 years old woman maneuvering the lively chaos of New York City. Her world takes a mesmerizing turn when she meets Jane Su, a fascinating woman who, oddly enough, appears to be marooned in the 1970s.
Even though August and Jane are falling in love, August sets out on a heartfelt mission to help Jane go back to her own time. August's love and selflessness show just how deep their connection is and how far she's willing to go for Jane.
4.5 ✨
Overall a good book, the pacing was really nice and the references funny. I would only criticise the sex scenes that felt kind of unnecessary. Outside of that a very sweet and fun book for anyone LGBTQAI+ or an Ally.
It was really nice and I loved the mystery aspect of it! The solution they found seemed a bit unrealistic in the fact that it had no repercussions but it is fiction. There was a bit more smut than I expected (my fault for not checking lol) which isn't a bad thing, just unexpected. Extremely optimistic if that makes sense. It didn't seem like there were ever any lasting effects of anything bad happening.
Wasn't planning on reading this this month, and there's always a long queue on it, but it became available at my library, so why not. This was cute I guess, but I'm too much of a nitpicky hater.
I gave up on this one but came back to it. All the things that annoyed me enough to give up the first time made it a little painful to get through, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I think I've just had my fill of this kind of book though... the insecure protagonist, MPDG love interest, and stylistic choices grated on me. The 'Millennial Brooklyn' element was especially noisome.
Pancakes and frogs and time travelling and drag queens and found family and an underlying mystery and a wholesome sapphic love story on the new york subway>>>
I did enjoy this one because most of the characters are delightful and the story is intriguing, but this was a mystery/romance/heist novel with a twist of fantasy that isn't satisfyingly any of those. But still fun and well-written.
this was generally queer fun and i didn't have to think too hard, which i appreciated, because i'm going to have to turn on my megabrain to tackle the titles i've lined up next. i found myself not really questioning the setup or logistics aside from when does august actually go to class, which i think is a net positive for the book? i actually thought it'd be a much hornier read but i guess there was a mystery (or two) to solve and there's only so much you can do with fucking on the subway.
i mostly read this around the midnight hour on select nights, except for the final push, which took place late weekday morning after i'd remote worked for a bit. kinda fit the late-night Q train rides in the story.
It's absolutely hard to imagine being a New Yorker who lives their everyday mundane life and could do their daily routine of taking the subway and in no way notice these two. Also, really curious to know if there were many different endings in drafting because while I love the ending I low key expected like twelve different endings than the actual one. The ending also felt a bit forced happily ever after.
August is a time....So, August is a place....So, August is a person.I love you. Summer never ends.Jane
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Well, if there's one thing Casey McQuiston knows how to do, it's fucking ruin me. She ruins me with perfect-written worlds, with the most wonderful characters, the sexiest smut, and genuinely fun and creative storylines where characters learn the most compelling things about themselves, things we know deep down and things that we need to be told every once in a while, to remind us that we are not alone. That learning through loves hurts, but it's so beautiful and necessary.
TL;DR: Casey McQuiston is a queer literary GOD and this book has left quite the mark on me. “We all have ghosts” is a lesson I have learned and continue to learn, both in love and life in general, and this book was such an enjoyable, funny, quirky, smart, and genuinely romantic way of exploring that idea. The minute I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. Casey, you've done it once again!
Read most of this on a quick weekend getaway for our 12th anniversary! Delightful to dive into, though I actually loved the “found family” aspect more than I loved the romance itself. Even though I thought both Jane and August were great characters? But so were all August's roommates and friends (Niko/Myla/Wes, Isaiah/Annie, her coworkers at the pancake place) - McQuiston is very good at writing fully fleshed-out characters. Parts of it were a tad overlong, but small complaint since I enjoyed this so much.
One Last Stop is a time-travel diverse romance that takes place over time. (chuckle - no pun intended). I fell in love with Jane, but then who wouldn't fall for a girl who gives you her leather jacket to remember her by. (sigh)
Check out the rest of my review at Mx. Phoebe's Viewpoint. Link in bio.
I received a free copy of this book and I am writing a review without prejudice and voluntarily.
Ahhwhwhwwwww THIS BOOK!!!!
this book is a beautiful love letter to queer people, New York, and the queer people of New York.
I loved every single character. Wes was a silly little gay mess, Nico and Myla were absolutely adorable, Winfield and Lucie were surprisingly sweet and wholesome, and August and Jane of course were completely phenomenal.
August was such a complex character, and it was so clear how she'd been shaped by the life she'd lived, always searching for her uncle, and Jane was a delight - a fierce but loving character and the two of them just worked so well.
I found the story to be very well paced, allowing for Jane and August's relationship to develop not too slow but not too fast so that when Jane ends up gone it is utterly heart wrenching. But, of course, the author has it both ways, and Jane comes back (curse you Casey McQuiston for almost making me cry for no reason!) so you get both the crushing sorrow of Jane leaving and the overwhelming joy of her coming back.
I liked how the end of the book was just little anecdotes not properly part of the story. It anchored all of the other extra little snipets at the beginning of every chapter to the whole story and made the world feel even more full, because it felt like a conclusion, but August and Jane get to keep going.
This book was a fantastic read and I'm definitely looking forward to reading more books by Casey McQuiston!
I ll start with a suggestion, even if you've read this book, go find the audiobook and enjoy Natalie Naudus, narrate it. Enjoy the voices, the sensation, everything!
And now the story, I am not sure what is not to love in this book. How is written, the story, the characters, even the second characters have a story to follow and are interesting. I loved this book, beginning to ending. I loved the idea behind it, the how everyone blends and the love, the love that makes you do a thousand things for the ones you love.
Yes, I ve read about the controversial issues about the book, but truly they don't even count across the way that this book is written.