Thought this going to be your basic chick flick type book, but it was so much more! The storyline was great characters were fabulous and it is the perfect book for reading in the garden on a hot summers day!
Will be looking forward to reading more books by Laura.
Thank you netgalley.

The plot was cute enough, but not really unique - I've read similar, and I've read better. I just didn't feel that it was that well written - there was far too much telling, not enough showing. This is not her first book, and so I was surprised that the writing wasn't stronger.

I also wasn't a massive fan of the political elements of this novel. It is very clear that Williams is anti-brexit and anti-tory, and I couldn't see why this needed to be shoe horned into a supposed romance novel. Also, the section on consent was so forced that it felt very clearly aimed at the me-too generation. The vulgar over the top nature of the humour felt forced too, and very much like an attempt to be shocking and relevant.

Overall, totally not for me. I get it, Williams is a blogger, she's woke, she's feminist, she is peak millennial. She's also sadly in this case boring. I don't read a rom-com to be preached to about how bad Brexit is, how cool gender fluidity is, and how toxic traditional masculinity is. I agree with her perspectives, I just don't see how it was relevant to this novel, and it seriously affected my enjoyment of it. God knows what people who disagree would find to enjoy in it.

Edited to add - when discussing this novel with someone else, they pointed out what I had seemingly missed. The guy in this basically stalks the girl, but through a supposedly romantic manner. Surprised that this is ok with the author given her perspective on all things millennial. Surely this is a problematic plot point?

I tried and failed to get into this book. Disappointing as there has been so many good reviews on it.

Sadly for me it was a non starter.

What a lovely story! I didn’t really know what to expect going into this one. The cover and synopsis caught my attention on NetGalley and I was delightfully surprised when I was approved.

If you haven’t heard about this one, it’s about Nadia and Daniel. Nadia tries to catch the 7:30 train each morning. Sometimes she’s successful, sometimes not. She’s trying to get her life in order and organized. Daniel always catches the 7:30 train. He hasn’t slept that great since his dad’s unexpected death. He notices Nadia, but can’t quite work up the courage to introduce himself. Until he writes into the missed connection section of the newspaper…

This is definitely one of my favorite reads of the year. I highlighted so many lines and could not put it down. There are so many near-connections in the book it’ll have you wondering will they ever meet!? (I actually did text a friend who had just finished it at one point because I was getting a little scared 😆

Both Daniel and Nadia are extremely lovable characters. I loved how their stories and lives overlapped and they didn’t even know it. It makes me think of how much stuff I could be missing in my daily life. We live in such a distracted time and are constantly doing something, scrolling through something. We have our heads down and aren’t taking in the world around us. It makes me sad that we live in such a distracted world… but I digress.

This book! It’s so great and fun and I would very much like my own Daniel please and thank you. Maybe I can be like Nadia and speak it into existence.

The paperback comes out February 20th in the US but you can buy the ebook now!

A wonderfully adorable meet cute romance! This is perfect for fans of Christian Lauren and other light fun romance reads. It was the perfect blend of romance and comedy so that it wasn't overly cheesy but was a good balance of both! Fun likable characters and adorable relatable moments made this a super fast paced engrossing read! I will be paying attention to this author from now on!

A solid 3.5/4 stars, I really enjoyed Our Stop. It's light-hearted, sweet, funny and has great characters - Daniel is possibly the cutest human on earth.

When Nadia reads a description in the lonely hearts section of her newspaper, she quickly dismisses it as clearly not being her - there's just no way. But when two of her closest friends push her to respond in case it is, she's stunned to realise that she really might have caught the eye of a hopelessly romantic commuter...

Daniel does not put himself out there. He's just not that person. But life is there to be lived and, after putting his lonely hearts message out there to the world (and Nadia), he's starting to realise this could be the best thing for him. That is, until a string of unfortunately-timed incidents get between him and Nadia so that it seems like they'll never get the chance to meet.

The book is a little slow to start, with a lot of finicky detail that could have been shown rather than told about the place and people. However, the author soon hits her stride and Our Stop quickly becomes a tale of frustration (in the best way) and fun. A cute holiday read for anyone who loves a good rom-com. Daniel alone is worth giving this book a read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for the ARC provided in exchange for an honest opinion. This book was mentioned a lot on Bookstagram, so I decided to request it. Some people even compared it to The Flatshare, so I was sold right away. Although it was enjoyable, it didn’t live up to Beth O’Leary’s debut for me.

Nadia is intent on starting The New Routine to Change Her Life. Haven’t we all been there, coming up with dreamy resolutions? One of hers is to catch the 7.30 train to be at time for work. Daniel is used to getting that train, and he has been eying Nadia for a while. In order to not look like a creepy in this society where nobody talks to each other anymore, he writes a Missed Connection- post. This leads to a journey of coincidences, misunderstandings and…a Twitter trend.

The London setting amused me. I’ve been to the city twice now, and even I could follow along the subway line. There also were some restaurants that I recognized. I can always enjoy a book more if I don’t only feel like I’m there, but if I also know the setting already. I found myself laughing on plenty on occasions. One of Williams’s strong points is absolutely her modern humor.

He’d held his breath as he’d held the door, like a Taylor Swift lyric about an innocuous beginning and a happy ending and love that was always meant to be.

The characters are relatable and impossible not to like. Nadia is full of energy, and always eager to improve herself. After every date or bad story, she has to remind herself not all men are horrible. That, I understood. She is confident, and doesn’t support gender stereotypes. Neither does Daniel, who isn’t afraid to cry and show his soft side. He won’t oppress Nadia, and backs up feminism. He was insecure to the point where he bought female guides to learn how to talk with strangers. Not going to lie, that was helpful.

Unfortunately, the plot went down too slow. I didn’t really like the writing style, and unimportant things were dragged. That one single chapter for Eddie was random? This surely could have been told in lesser pages, and the use of vocabulary was hard to get into sometimes. It did deal with some important themes that needed elaboration: consent, grief and emotional abuse. Consent was handled rather heavy, but it was necessary. The emotional abuse was simply ‘told’. I think I would have liked to see some effects to be dealt with, like hesitancy before starting a flirtation. Daniel was a perfect example to show grief. He did not restrain from showing tears, or remembering his father.

“It’s just not that hard, you know? She doesn’t have to say no for it to be a yes.”

It was clear this was a book about and for millennials. Not knowing how to approach someone without being a creep? Social media stalking? Feeling as if you need to live up to society’s expectations? Seriously, this felt like a tribute to it. 3 stars. I won’t reread it, but that certainly doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. Again, I still think I’m just being judgmental about every book that doesn’t compare to ACOTAR. Blame Sarah J. Maas.

“Our Stop” is a contemporary romance that makes you keep reading from the beginning until the last word. It is written through both main characters’ vision, Nadia and Daniel, so you can enjoy twice this love story. The setting in London’s underground is a great idea, thanks to that my boring commute has turned into an entertaining adventure looking for my own Daniel. Although to be honest, I think Daniel is so perfect guy that I don't guess he could be real.

I would like to highlight the beautiful cover designed by Cherie Chapman, it is a great job that caught my eyes at first sight and that was the reason why I wanted to read this book.

Our Stop by Jaura Jane Williams is a totally recomendable read, don’t hesitate and read it right now.

#happyreading

Thoroughly enjoyed this love match made - on the London underground! I have often sat on a tube train & wondered if love ever does flourish between chance meetings, well this tale lets you know it can happen.

Despite a lot of potential (and I really liked the idea/concept), this was a SLOW read for me. It felt very “stream of consciousness-y” to me with lots of run-on sentences. I wasn't sure if that was an attempt to be "amusing" as this was billed as a romcom or if it was just the author's writing style. At some level, this felt like a conglomeration of various articles from a woman’s magazine – which, given the author’s background as a writer for (wait for it) women's magazines, made sense. It also felt a bit preachy to me. (re: Brexit, Tories and feminism). It’s absolutely fine to espouse opinions (and some expressed were very valid) but this just seemed overly heavy handed/ repetitive given the type of book this was (a romcom). The story did pick up once Nadia and Daniel finally met, but ultimately, I felt this could have been half as long.

*Advance copy provided by NetGalley. All opinions are my own.*

This was a cute, light-hearted rom-com that I enjoyed. It was a refreshing break from my normal thrilling reads. It was definitely a little too slow to start for me, but I really appreciated the great character development.

3.5/5 Stars

This book was probably one of the cutest damn things I’ve read in forever. Every few pages I was squealing in joy. The only reason this book couldn’t be a five star read for me was its lack of depth. We never actually got to see a lot from our main characters together. The whole book was a lead up, and I felt like I didn’t get a real resolution. There obviously isn’t much I can say about the book, spoilers and all, but I did truly love the unique twist on a romance that it brought to the table. The idea of a romantic pairing, finding each other on their morning commute to work and through a long series of messages is probably the cutest thing I’ve ever read. The book was also very self conscious of the potentially creepy and stalker life issues with how this relationship was unfolding. It made me happy that this book was so self aware. Overall, it was a great and super cute read, perfect for summer!

I felt that some of the times when Nadia and Daniel failed to meet was a bit too far-fetched and didn’t really hugely warm to the characters as Daniel seemed too perfect and Nadia was flawed and not very well developed. I also didn’t like Nadia’s behaviour when Greg had to leave the bar before they met and thought that this showed how selfish she was.
Although some parts made me smile and I liked the way it touched upon consent, bereavement and sexual orientation I did feel that the book seemed too long and I was getting bored at parts with too much detail, readers should be able to use their imagination.
I’m sure some readers will love this book but for me I wanted to read till the end but I wasn’t finding myself itching to read it every moment I could.

2.5 -3 star review

I feel pretty ambivalent about this read, it was okay and it was definitely a book that built as it progressed but despite the cutest cover, the lovely synopsis, it just didn’t wow me. However, it was a sweet story that probably would make a good summer holiday read.

This is a book of missed opportunities and maybes which I’ m beginning to see is a trope that I struggle with. I get frustrated after a number of ‘nearly’ moments. I mean, how long can you spin that on without the reader tiring and needing the couple to meet?

Daniel was a cute guy, there was nothing to dislike about him and I felt that he was not the problem with the nearly moments. Nadia, however was a bit of a hot mess, always carrying a coffee stain and running late. Considering this story was about seeing one another on a certain train, the being-late-bit really did get in the way. Nadia frustrated me throughout.

These two do meet in the end but I think I may have been a bit beyond the moment at that point and I struggled to appreciate the overall build to the culmination.

Laura Jane Williams wrote with wit and had a light approach to narrative. I would read her again with a trope that I am more tolerant of. Lots of people have loved this book, so I am in the minority but I do think that others will also struggle with the drum roll that goes on rather long.

Do you ever pick up a book at what feels like the exact right time? By that I mean the story and characters resonate with you and where you’re at in your life, it feels like it’s riddled with messages that are for you, and it just feels like you were meant to read this book? That’s what Our Stop felt like for me. I was on Goodreads one day and happened to see a friend was reading it and had got an eARC from Netgalley. I checked Netgalley, surprised to find it still available, requested it without much expectation, and was ecstatic when I was approved. And then I started reading and I had that rare and wonderful feeling of ‘Ohh, okay. This book was meant for me.’ Talk of things happening for a reason, being meant to be, and mentions of the Law of Attraction will always catch my attention, and when they’re paired with a story that’s witty, thought-provoking, romantic, and engaging, it’s a clear winner for me.

This book was different from a lot of the British romcoms/chick lit I’ve read. Most of the ones I’ve read can be described as sweet and light, with little to no swearing, no sex, and while they may tackle some heavier real-life topics, they tend to remain mostly fluffy (which is in no way a bad thing - I’m here for the fluff!). But Our Stop was the opposite of the books I’m used to and what I expected this book to be. The characters were smart, modern, and complex, and not only dealt with real issues but talked about them too. Among other things, this book touched on topics like feminism, consent, grief, how men and ‘masculinity’ are perceived, and the female characters talked about things you rarely see talked about, like periods, body hair, and honest discussions about sex. Every time I came to those sections, I would just stop and think ‘Wow. Yes. This is what I want to see more of in books.’

Our Stop was a charming, delightful, hopeful read. It was witty, honest, emotional, and so romantic. By the time I finished reading, I had a big dopey smile on my face and tears in my eyes. It was exactly what I needed exactly when I needed it. I look forward to reading more from Laura Jane Williams!

Sometimes you just need a fluffy, fun bit of chick lit and this was exactly that, with a girl can do anything attitude.

Nadia and Daniel get the same train and Daniel has been admiring her from afar for quite some time. He finally drums up the courage to submit to Missed Connections to let her know he feels, discreetly. Nadia isn't quite sure he is talking about her but her friends are certain it is so she replies.

What follows is a number of submissions to Missed Connections from each, a few near misses and you find yourself willing them to finally meet properly - it is great when they finally do. Daniel was a great character, I really liked how much he cares about the people in his life and Nadia was quite a likeable character too, she seemed quite humble and caring also.

I really enjoyed this book and with the recent news that the author has signed a deal for more books in the next few years, I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.

I really enjoyed this story. I love the premise, 2 people on a crowded commute hoping to cross paths, yet always seeming to miss each other. The writing was very good but I feel like the story could have moved a little faster. The author was very good about providing details of the back story of each of the main characters. Would definitely recommend!

Pleasant enough romcom , but did not hold my interest. A slow burn book, I had to work hard to stay with it, only finsihed it because it was a free copy and I had an obligation to review.

3.5 stars
I loved the synopsis, being a massive"you've got mail" and "one day in December" fan!! This book fell short for me.
Daniel falls head over heels in love with Nadia, a woman who has coffee stains on her dresses, she gets the 7.30 bus every monday and always sits in the last carriage. Problem is she hasn't a clue who he is. They have never spoken. In order to get her attention Daniel writes a "love letter" on the newspaper, which she sees. Alas their newspaper relationship begins.

The storyline is extremely cute, however one third of the book could have be taken out and you would still have the same result. The characters are sweet, but that's it. There is no character development.

Nadia's friends Gaby and Emma need a book. They are hilarious and so sweet and supportive. The book cover is gorgeous!

The concept of the book was adorable. There's something similar to the 'Missed Connections' section IRL so I thought it was cute that the story evolved around that. (I mean we're all guilty of reading it!) I also loved how it was set in London and all the places that I was familiar with, it definitely made me see it in a different light. The first half of the book took a while to get into but I guess the build up of everything made the ending a lot more sweeter and exciting. I have to admit, I got a bit annoyed and just wanted Nadia and Daniel to meet already. Yes, it was predictable but I don't think it breached too much into the cheesy/cringey category. It was a bit more aware with all the feminism parts but still managed to be romantic and endearing.

Overall, it's a cute little summer read. It's funny and just a lovely light read.