A very cute and fun premise but the writing is pretty cringey! I've always hated when books overuse modern slang.

Happy belated birthday, One Last Stop!! This was the perfect book to start Pride month with! I know it’s one that has been highly anticipated, and clearly for good reason. I’m now thinking I’ll buy a copy to have on my shelf after reading an e-arc of it first.

This book was incredibly unexpected. I knew it was a romance that took place on a train, but I had no idea it included science fiction elements, bending time, and time warp concepts! It definitely kept me hooked (although the first chapter or two was a bit slow, but after that I could NOT put it down!!).

For some reason I always happen to love stories that involve time travel or time warps, even though I’m not the biggest fan of most sci-fi. And this book was no exception for me.

Without giving anything away, just consider this: you’re on a train when you lock eyes with someone – a special someone – and you soon come to realize they are always on the same train as you. On the same car. In the same clothes. At the same time. Without fault. Then you find a photo of her at your place of work, only to discover it’s from 45 years ago and she looks EXACTLY the same.

I told you you’d be hooked.

Please pick up a copy of this book. If you like romance AT ALL, if you like subway stories, if you like time warp/travel stories, if you like LGBTQ+ stories… please grab this one! You won’t be sorry!

I wanted to read something out of my wheel house and so when I saw this one available on NetGalley I requested it. I'm glad I did. I found the beginning sucked me right in. I got so many feels while reading this. It was humorous, without being silly and the characters were so loveable.

One Last Stop was a swoon-worthy queer new adult romance with a hint of speculative fiction! I really enjoyed this book and was rooting for August and Jane to get a happy ending for the whole story. It was very different than Casey's debut, RWRB, but I really enjoyed it.

The romance is between August, a 23 year old, and Jane, a woman stuck in time on a subway line. I loved this creative, inventive romance and I especially loved how much queer history was woven into the story. As a librarian, I also really liked that August's mother was a librarian and uses her skillset to research her brother's disappearance.

I will say that I found some of the plot points/revelations to be a bit predictable, but that definitely didn't stop me from enjoying the story. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Casey writes next!

I could not love this story more. It is stunning. Delightful, hopeful, funny, clever, and inclusive. So much representation woven with a unique story. Not just a queer romance. A touch of science fiction, just enough to move the plot along, but the romantic aspects make you believe in love. I will be recommending this book for years!

OH MY GOSH, THIS BOOK. I already knew I loved Casey McQuiston, but this book really sealed the deal. It was unique, funny, exciting, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and everything in between. I couldn't put it down, and now I'm mad at myself for reading it so quickly because I'm sad it's over.

Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is here and I cannot think of a more perfect summer read. This book is packed with so many things that I love: a strong focus on found family, the exploration of what it's like to feel like you have to figure out your entire life in your 20s, a look at queer history and activism and joy, a touch of magic, and love conquering all.

It follows August, who is lost and wary of being hopeful, and Jane, who is literally lost in a pocket of time and trapped on the Q train. From the smell of syrup to kissing practice to radio song swaps, these two brought me so much joy. August is endlessly relatable, and I'm so excited for Jane to take her rightful place as a top tier book girlfriend (seriously my initial review notes for this were: Jane, Jane, Jane). They find the magic in each other, in the ordinary, in those they surround themselves with, and it's impossible as a reader not to feel touched by the spell they cast.

Wow! Just Wow! I absolutely loved this book! This was a book I was super excited to read because I have read the author’s previous work and loved that.

In One Last Stop, we follow August who recently moved to New York to go to school but without any other plans. She moves in with three lovable weird people and gets a job at a pancake dinner. On her way to her first day of school, August is having a series of bad luck but that all stops when a beautiful woman named Jane offers her some help on the subway. Jane is cool, mysterious, and edgy and August cannot stop thinking about her. They always seem to be riding the subway at the same time and soon, a friendship develops. But there is one big problem, Jane cannot leave the subway because she is somehow from the 1970s and is trapped on this subway. Now August, with all of her investigating skills and the help of her roommates, are trying to uncover why Jane is trapped on the subway and how to set her free.

This was a beautiful book filled with LGBTQ+ representation, a great mystery, and overall heart warming. I loved every second of it and I can’t wait to buy a physical copy of this book.

HAPPY PUB DAY TO THIS ABSOLUTE GEM OF A BOOK!!

There are no words. Casey Mcquinsotn is on another level. she is a queen. her writing…I’m just in awe. okay enough of that because I’m pretty sure we’re all part of the Casey McQuiston fan club so let me just leave you with this: READ THIS BOOK!!!!

A huge thank you to St Martins Press for the gifted eARC!

Truly sweet and a pleasure to read. This is one of those authors whose writing restores your faith in humanity, will recommend this one far and wide.

I didn’t want this to end! Casey McQuiston does it again with another great story with impeccable representation of the LGBTQ community. I was fortunate to receive an advanced copy from NetGalley, & I’m so grateful for it. I didn’t want to out this book down, but I also didn’t want it to end. I loved these characters & their journey. This is a must-read for 2021!!

This story was so so cute with a lot of queer representation! I loved it so much!

I really enjoyed August and Jane's slow burn relationship. It felt sweet and believable regardless of the magical realism happening around it, which I also really appreciated. Usually, I'm not a fan of magical elements in my contemporaries because I almost always get let down by their poor execution, but Casey McQuiston managed to pull it off completely in my opinion. The magical twist gave the story a mystery element that tied nicely with the romance plot and the characters' personas. It never felt overdone or clumsy, and it resolved in a way that felt credible and satisfying. Overall, I'm very impressed by McQuiston's ability to build a compelling and solid narrative that kept me entertained from start to finish. The only thing I'll say is that the middle part of the book dragged a bit too much for me at some point, but the pace quickly picked back up right as I feared getting bored with the story.

I also loveeee that there are drag queens in this book! I want more stories with drag please! I loved it so much!

I honestly did not know what to expect going into reading this book I was just thrilled that Casey McQuiston had a new book and I knew I needed to read it. This book was such a strange and wonderful journey. Finding lost things, feeling lost, figuring out who you are, finding your people, falling in love, and a bit of a time travel paradox too for good measure. This was a great, trippy, sweet book.

I already raved about the audiobook, but I just can't stress enough how much joy this book brought me. I loved everything about One Last Stop. Every single character was lovable and delightful(The roommates are just *chef's kiss). All the different subplots fold together in the most satisfying way. The love story is absolutely swoon-worthy and dreamy. Just ahhh, go read this beautiful sapphic masterpiece.

I listened to the audiobook version and loved the narrator. I’m always up for a good romcom and this was very good indeed! It felt like more than just a romcom though as the friendships formed were close and the characters well developed and interesting. I would love to read more from this author!

August doesn’t believe in psychics or magic. She’s spent her whole life as her mom’s assistant digging up clues and archives to find out what happened to her uncle. So when she moves to New York, ends up with a psychic roommate, and falls for a girl on the subway who seems to be lost in time from the 70’s, you’d see how things might get a bit out of hand.

This book was such a treat. I’m always down for a sapphic romance, and there was a bunch more representation for the LGBTQ+ community (but I’ll let those in the community speak to the quality of the representation). The magic of this book was subtle and delightful, and the romance gave me butterflies. I can’t say enough about this book, so run don’t walk to pick this one up! If you liked Red, White and Royal Blue, you need to read One Last Stop. Period.

Another very fun romcom from Casey McQuiston! I loved the ensemble of characters and relationships, loved to see how her writing has gotten stronger even since Red White and Royal Blue (which I also really liked). I still experienced some of the frustrations I get when I read any romance novel (resolutions come pretty easy, prose is sometimes sacrificed for plot) but that’s just me. Overall, I would definitely recommend this to any romance reader and anyone at all looking for a new adult coming-of-age

If you thought Casey McQuiston was done after Red, White, & Royal Blue. I'm here to tell you nothing could be further from the truth. I have been eagerly awaiting this release and fell right into the story. I felt like an active participant, McQuiston's writing is so engaging. I was not expecting the turns this book took.

I anticipated a LGBTQ cast of characters and to see diversity represented. I expected some romance. I expected relatable feelings and human experiences. I got all of this. BUT THEN I also got a sort of magical realism/sci-fi twist that I was not expecting and I was fully on board for it.

Our main character is August, a bisexual young woman who has just moved to NYC to basically have another redo. She's tried some other spots, some other colleges but she just hasn't found a place that felt comforting or welcoming. She's trying to distance herself both physically and emotionally from her mother. August has a loving mother, but she hasn't escaped childhood without a few confusing bumps and scrapes along the way. She was raised alongside her mother's relentless investigation for a missing person. Her childhood was formed in libraries and public records and her mannerisms were molded around research and getting information. But she didn't get to choose any of that. And now, as an adult, she can.

Which finds her in NYC answering a "roommate wanted" ad. August somehow find an apartment and a community that, against her natural predisposition to push people away, fully embraced and included her. So that feels pretty good. Even better is this woman she keeps bumping into on the subway. She's funny and helpful, caring, clever, and August may or may not be halfway in love with her before she even learns her name.

Eventually she does, it's Jane. And Jane is FULL of surprises, like how she's actually a woman displaced in time from the 1970s whose somehow tethered to the subway. And here we see August return to her sleuthing roots to help figure out the mystery that is Jane and how she can save her.

And along the way, maybe August will get saved herself.

This book was enchanting. It had such relatable emotions and real situations - running away from home, trying to leave your family and past behind, finding a family you choose instead of the one you were born into, learning to love yourself. All such important topics in a book. Plus, the romance, ahh, the romance. I'm always ready to fall in love again in a book. To feel those heartbeat-picking-up feelings of crushes and new relationships and new love? How lucky that we readers get to feel that again and again and again just be getting wrapped up into a really great, well-written book!

So as I start this review I should clarify that I don't know what kind of review this is. But I requested an ARC this book at the beginning of April, then was more or less left on read for two months with no reply either way. Then the day of publication came and I was like "ok then" and bought the audiobook that morning so I could listen to it when work was slower as I was excited for the book. Then later that afternoon when I'm 25% of the way through the book or so, I got an email saying my request for an ARC was approved- on the day of publication. Which seemed odd to me. I don't want to hurt my Netgalley ratio so I'm publishing this review there, but I also did buy the audiobook myself before I technically got the ARC. Is this an ARC review? Is this a regular review? I dunno. It's kinda in the middle, a weird situation where I got both on the same day. I just wanted to clarify all that upfront.

With ALL that said, this was incredible!! I love it so much. The characters are all so wonderful and the story is genuinely interesting and sucks you right in.

This book follows August, who is very much a loner. She has just moved to New York City for school after bouncing around a couple different cities and ending up there. She finds a Brooklyn apartment with another bunch of queer misfits where she fits in, which is a new feeling for her. One day on the subway, she meets Jane Su, your totally crushable butch, who comforts her after a shitty morning. Then when she keeps running into Jane on the same Subway every day they grow close, but there is a mystery to Jane that August wants to uncover.

Ugh this book is wonderful there's so much to cover. I'll start with the romance. I love both August and Jane so much. Jane is this enigma and I was right with August wanting to learn more and more about her past, and as we learn more she is soooo cool. Everyone needs a Jane in their friend group. And August is just so loveable and adorable. For someone who is so guarded I loved seeing her barriers drop down for both Jane and the new people in her life. They were so wonderful together. And ugh that buildup to them declaring their feelings for each other is painful in the best of ways.

And the side characters! I'm a total sucker for found family. Nico, Myla, Wes, and Isaiah are all so wonderful and it warms my heart how they just instantly accept August in. I also love the Billy's group for August's life. It just makes me so happy. And every one of these characters despite not being the main parts of the book are so well rounded and fleshed out. There really weren't any one dimensional characters in this whole book.

I loved the settings of this book. Everything seemed just so real. From the shithole apartment, the the subway, to Billy's. I could just see each and every one so vividly and it really created the world of this book into something magical but totally real and believable simultaneously.

And the plot! Honestly, I'm more of a character reader, so if a plot is a little thinner it's not a dealbreaker for me. But when the plot of the book is compelling and leaves me reading faster to know what happens, that's just a chefs kiss. And this book is exactly that. I needed to know what was going to happen with so much of this book! What happened to Jane? Is Billy's going to make it? What's the deal with August's uncle? It all left me so gripped. The story alone in this book is so fun it could stand on its own.

I don't have criticisms of this book. The only things about my reading experience I can complain about are getting the ARC after buying the book already was a little annoying, and the lack of sleep I have today after finishing this book at 1am- but that one's on me I guess.

This was wonderful. Everyone is raving about this book and justifiably. Into the favorites it goes. 5/5

Happy Publication Day to One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

What is this book about?:
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston follows August, a cynical twenty-three-year-old who has just moved to New York City, moved in with a group of eclectic roommates and started waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner. August believes that that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and that the only smart way to go through life is alone. But then there’s Jane, a gorgeous, charming and mysterious girl on the train who is displaced in time from the 1970s. Now, August and Jane have to figure out how to get Jane back to the seventies without catching feelings for one another.

Overall Thoughts:
While this novel had #ownvoices bisexual representation, memorable characters, a found family, was educational as it discussed and weaved queer history into the narrative and was also well written as it was full of humor and the descriptions were so vivid that readers could picture scenes as a movie. However, the pacing of the book was very slow and hard to get into at first, August was unlikeable at certain times, there were a few instances in the book where there was more telling than showing and the romance between Jane & August wasn’t well developed until the end of the book. 3.8/5

Who would like this?:
Anyone who enjoys f/f scifi/fantasy romance novels.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: homophobia, mention of the UpStairs Lounge arson attack that occurred in 1973, neglectful parents