I received this book complimentary from NetGalley but all opinions are my own.

Oh, this is a delight of a book. August, Jane, Niko, Myla, Isaiah and my personal favorite Wes. Every single character leapt off the page with joy and passion and oh the beauty. This is a lovely book. I loved the setting. I loved the story and plot. I love the details. Oh what a sweet sweet book. You must read this. If you liked RWRB, you will love this. Oh I’m in book-finish-lala-land. This is a dream of a book. So easy to plow through but you don’t feel like you are moving too fast. It is wonderful.

I was THRILLED to receive a copy of this book after absolutely adoring Red, White and Royal Blue. That was a full five star read for me.

I picked this book up when I needed something light, but couldn’t quite get into it due to, what I thought was something going on with me at the current time. However, after picking the book up the second time around, I see that wasn’t the case. I just didn’t enjoy this book.

The plot was a little out there and a bit too unbelievable. I wasn’t into all of the descriptions of the train and the investigative work, including the “news/looking for” ads at the beginning of chapters. I just didn’t find the characters authentic.

What I did appreciate about the novel was such a diverse cast of characters and so many areas of representation across the board. If there had been some believability behind it all (even with the mom!) this has the potential to be a slam dunk.

I DNF at 40%. 2.5 stars. Many may adore this book, I just couldn’t.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really loved Casey McQuinston's writing. This book was long but i love the Kate and Leopold reimagining, Loved the found family, the mystery, the diversity of the cast. This book had everything.

Casey can't do no wrong.

This was a fun and distracting read in the times of COVID-19, although I did not enjoy it as much as the author's first book. The writing was tighter and more succinct, which I appreciated, but the plot was a bit less capturing. I don't have anything against magical realism, but this book felt sort of half-in half-out of the genre. Having the psychic elements was either too little or too much - I felt the book should have leaned further into the side-plot magical realism aspects of the novel (i.e. those existing outside of Jane's life trapped on the subway line), or let that go entirely.

The romance was sweet and unassuming. It made me smile and had a type of innocence to it that I really enjoyed. I loved the cast of side-characters and the representation of LGBTQ+ relationships. All-in-all this was a fun and diverting read that made me smile on a cozy Sunday.

It took me a little while to really get into the swing of the story but I ended up falling in love with August and Jane and the whole wonderful found family cast of secondary characters. I think some people who loved the straight-up contemporary romance of RWRB might have trouble with the speculative time slip element of this one but I personally love a time travel shenanigan (thank you, college Doctor Who phase). There was a lot going on subplot-wise that I think could’ve been tightened up a little but overall I really enjoyed this ode to love and the queer community.

“Remember the rules. Number one— Us versus everyone. And number two— If they’re gonna kill you, get their DNA under your fingernails.”

This!! book!! blew my mind!!! Our girl August—well let’s just say there’s nothing not to love about her. She’s a 23 year old bisexual bouncing from city to city, trying to find somewhere that sticks. Looming student loan debt is the only future she can imagine. She embodies that early 20s terror of realizing that at some point you have to decide what to do with your life. What’s she going to do if she doesn’t even know how to make friends? What can she believe in besides the weight of her pocket knife? “Should she be worried about frog ghosts?”

August might be running from something, but she’s got no idea what she’s running to until she finds it. In a plant-filled apartment above the streets of NYC. In a filthy subway car beneath the city. At a party bursting with pancakes and drag queens. One Last Stop is a love letter to the people that burrow their way into our hearts and make a home when we least expect it.

I’m obsessed with the all-star cast of this book. August’s misfit roommates are every queer’s dream found family (at least mine anyway). I loved that there were so many more characters to enjoy than just our iconic lovers. August’s roommates felt like family from the very beginning and they’ve got robust personalities. It was never hard to keep track of who was who because they were all so real and lovable.

“Now she wants a home, one she’s made for herself, one nobody can take away because it lives in her like a funny little glass terrarium.”

Right, so there’s also the time-traveling element to this story. And a caper that needs solving! August loves nothing more than a mystery. Except this time that mystery has a smiling face and irresistible laugh. Enter Jane, who is absolutely wonderful! Jane is bold and brave, kind and generous, and it’s easy to love her almost as much as August does. She exists as much more than just a girl out of time. The difference between the realities of August and Jane is really compelling. Contrasting the 70s with today reminds us of how far we’ve come since the queens at Stonewall demanded respect. Jane is one of those fighters that marched in Pride when it was still far from safe to do so. Jane is one of our queer heroes, and she can hardly believe it when August explains that she won’t be arrested for being gay in public anymore. Jane’s story broke and mended my heart over and over. One Last Stop is so special because it follows that beautiful thing we call queer family across seven decades. August finds all these bits and pieces, thank you notes and photographs, evidence of all the ways that Jane touched people’s lives just by being herself. Jane is the kind of queer that I want to be.

“You’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you.”

There’s a lot of things to love about this book. My favorite tho, is the way Casey writes about queer spaces. There’s something incredibly special about an all queer space—a place where anyone can be and feel accepted. A place that goes way past tolerating difference to embracing it. I love how Casey takes the time to write about that. When August goes to parties and drag shows she describes the people there. She describes the kaleidoscope of colors, lipsticks, feathers and glitter. She describes feeling the magical unstoppable force that is queer love.

August’s journey is about learning to be loved, growing out of someone you used to be, living with pain and hoping—believing—it can get better. Casey has done it again! I LOVED this book!!!
Thanks SO MUCH to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC to read!

Knowing the author's previous book, Red, White & Royal Blue, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I jumped at the chance to read One Last Stop. What a delight this book was. Casey McQuiston brings a cast of lovely, diverse characters to life and I wish I could be friends with all of them. This is a solid rom com with a mystery, well, two mysteries really, that keep you wondering what will happen and how it will all end. Unique, fun read!

I'm between 4 and 4.5 stars on this. I, like many reviewers here, adored Red, White & Royal Blue, so I was delighted to see that McQuiston was coming out with a new romance novel. Admittedly, some of the science fiction / time travel elements didn't quite make sense to me and took me out of the book a bit. but McQuiston's flair for compelling, witty, adorable dialogue shines through here just as much as it does in RWRB. Chances are, if you're a fan of McQuiston's debut novel, you'll like this one too.

Here's the thing about Casey McQuiston. Each word she writes is this deliciously heavy piece of lead that submerges a writer deeper into a story the more you read. Whether it's a Trumpless world in Red, White & Royal Blue or one devoid of COVID in One Last Stop, McQuiston knows escapism. She more than knows it. She cultivated her own version of it that brings you back to the safe pages of her books with fantastic worlds and comforting characters. Her stories are like warm hugs that you didn't realize you craved. They're a piece of driftwood keeping you afloat when you're stranded at sea. A glass of water quenching your thirst. A gift from god herself. One Last Stop is an absolute page turner and I can't wait to get my physical copy to read and reread and annotate and then read again come June.

Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.

Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop surprised me—it went in a direction that I was *not* expecting—& it makes me so excited to see what exactly McQuiston might write next.

August Landry moved from New Orleans to Brooklyn w/ a couple of pit stops along the way because she hasn’t found *her* place yet. She’s left behind her mom & the decades-old mystery that her mom’s obsessed with: the disappearance of August’s uncle.

On the subway August is instantly struck by the sight of Subway Girl; Subway Girl gives her her scarf when August—teasingly christened Coffee Girl by the stranger—spills on her shirt.

Later, August can’t stop thinking about Subway Girl, Jane, for many reasons. Over time, as they continue talking, & gazing, & flirting, August realizes that (1) Jane is *always* on the subway when she is; (2) Jane doesn’t actually know who she is & most of her memories are gone, only slowly revealing themselves when prompted by something August says or does; & (3) Jane’s last real memories before being on the subway are from the 70s, when Jane appeared exactly the same age.

Wow, what a concept. & despite the fact that I knew there could be no “perfect” ending whereby Jane ends up unscathed, McQuiston pulls it off in a way that ultimately feels hopeful.

That hopefulness also comes across in Jane’s consideration of the setting itself, since, as Jane reminisces, it’s a pretty different world for LGBTQIA people in modern Brooklyn as opposed to the 1970s (though not entirely without its challenges or difficulties, obviously).

The relationship between August & Jane is lovely to watch unfold, as is that between August & her winsome & quirky roommates. I love how this is a story about friendship & found family too, in addition to offering lots of laughs & a couple of moving mysteries that August wants to solve.

There are a couple of moments when I personally got a little bogged down by the technical details of time travel, etc., but I think that was more of a mood thing.

Either way, this is a fantastic romance that I’m feeling nostalgic about even now.

5 ⭐️. Release date: 06/01

You guys when I say this could be the biggest disappointment of 2021. I dnf’d at 38% simple because for two whole weeks I fought tooth and nail and still didn’t love it. The only reason I’m giving this one star is because Myla. Everything else just was too much for me.

This book was absolutely nothing like I expected it to be. If you told me the actual plot of this book before I read it, I probably would have said "Nope.. not my thing..", but yet.. I loved this book! It sucked me in from the first few pages and didn't let go. It was actually the opposite experience of when I read RW&RB, as that one took me a LONG time to get into, but it won me over in the end.
This story has a bit of everything.. Romance, Sex, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Comedy.. but really, I just loved it with my whole heart. My only complaint was sometimes the scenes with the side characters felt a bit drawn out. The side characters were all lovable and interesting, but I really wanted to get back to Jane and August!

I fell in love with August and Jane. August is searching for a place to belong. Unsure of her future, wanting no part of her eccentric mother’s obsessive behaviour, she becomes a minimalist. I could relate to that restless uncertainty in my twenties. Where do I go from here? Where do I belong? Instead of disappearing in the biggest city she could find, her world becomes her Flatbush apartment, her daily commute on the Q train and her night shifts at Pancake Billy’s House of Pancakes. Her friends make her apartment an oasis. Meeting Jane on the Q train is life changing for August. Jane has it all together. Sexy in her black leather jacket and chivalrous enough to lend August her scarf to cover a coffee stain on August’s first day heading to Brooklyn College. It’s love at first sight though neither is willing to admit this. They bond over music. Their connection helps Jane begin the slow process of remembering her past and wishing like August that she could end whatever has kept her trapped on this subway for forty five years.

This book started slow but grew on me and has left me with a massive book hangover. It’s that good. On the surface One Last Stop is about a loner hoping to disappear and instead falling in love with a woman caught in time, trapped since the ‘70s on the Q train in New York. But there is so much more to this new adult romance. It’s an homage to the friends you meet along the way, of finding a home, a found family, a place to thrive. It’s about the loss of neighbourhood meeting spots and the fight to push back urbanization to keep the soul of the community alive.It’s about giving today’s queer community a better understanding of events in the past which helped shape the freedoms we enjoy while also showcasing the challenges still faced by BIPOC queers.

The writing is gorgeous. I couldn’t stop highlighting passages. The dialogue is machine gun rapid and crisp. The characters are drawn so well. Their quirky careers and hobbies, their trust, their anxieties and hopes. I loved the diverse characters who form a family of acceptance and love. The LGBTQIA and BIPOC representation is refreshing. There are even drag queens. Be still my heart.

This is my favourite read of 2021. McQuiston packs so much into their writing you have to pause and appreciate the beauty of it.

ARC received with thanks from St Martin’s Griffin and Netgalley for an honest review.

I adored Casey McQuiston's "Red White and Royal Blue" so much, and was thrilled to read her new book. While I did enjoy it, it didn't quite capture the magic of her debut novel.

August is a 23 year old new arrival to NYC, and she wastes no time finding an apartment complete with eccentric roommates, and a job at a 24 hour diner. And then she meets Jane on the subway, and promptly falls in love/list with her.

Except Jane isn't who she says it is. She is quite literally from a different time, and stuck on the subway with no idea how she got there. It's up to August and friends to figure it out before they lose Jane forever.

I wasn't expecting the supernatural twist to this book, and I did enjoy it once I wrapped my head around that.

Ok so when I read Red, White, and Royal Blue I became a huge fan. When I saw that One Last Stop was being released I knew I had to read it! I was so excited to be approved for this and it did not let me down. McQuiston has a talent for making you feel deep emotions for the characters and at the same time laugh out loud and want the characters to get it on! So good and I can't wait to see what is next!

One Last Stop is one of the best books I have read in a long time.

When August relocates to NYC from Louisiana to attend college, her life changes drastically. She moves in with three roommates that could not be more unlike her, gets a job at a beloved greasy spoon, and falls in love on and with the Q train. August is taken with Jane the first time they meet - August covered in coffee and Jane looking like a punk rocker right out of the 70s.

Like August was taken with Jane, I was taken with this book from the first page. I loved August in all her closed-off, anxious glory. I loved the way she described New York City and the Q train. How much she was in love with all of the eccentricities that made them what they were. I've never wanted to visit a city more or ride a train through its entire line. One Last Stop will make you fall in love with the city, with trains, with drag queens and queer psychics, tall, beautiful punk rock girls on the subway. With everything that August falls in love with. You are in it with her from start to finish. There is so much feeling in every word, every page, so much emotion.

I absolutely loved nearly every single thing about this book and will highly recommend it to every single person that I know. It's a beautiful, heart-wrenching romance with perfect light science-fiction moments and, most of all, a love story to the queer community.

One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston’s sophomore novel, lives up to the hype of Red, White & Royal Blue. Instead of first sons and princes, McQuiston has spun a love story of two young women, August and Jane, who meet on the subway — and keep meeting there as they come to discover that Jane is somehow displaced in time and is stuck riding the subway in 2021 instead of back in the ‘70s where she belongs.

One Last Stop is full of quirky, interesting characters, the sort of people you would love to sit down and have a cup of coffee with. The found family trope runs rampant through this novel, taking the reader along as August, who has grown up mostly on her own with a mother distracted by a tragedy in past, learns to let down her guard and let some of the fabulous queer folk around her in.

The romance between August and Jane is electric, full of the banter we have come to expect from McQuiston. This beautiful novel includes other classic McQuiston moves, including a healthy serving of queer history and some truly steamy scenes between the main characters (be prepared for some semi-public sexy times!).

As much as it's obviously a love story between August and Jane, One Last Stop is also a love story to New York City — reading this book will make you nostalgic for the city even if you’ve only ever been a tourist there — and maybe even if you’ve never been there at all.

Fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and those discovering McQuiston for the first time will be equally thrilled with this sweet, often poignant exploration of time, love, and the New York City subway.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the advance review copy!

In short: a cute, funny, queer AF rom-com with a slight fantasy twist! But in reality, it really was so much more! One Last Stop was such a great time! It features a found family of misfits, a diverse cast of queers, an engaging mystery plot, and a swoony love interest!
I was a little nervous picking this one up, because these sort of “figuring out what happened in the past” mysteries aren’t normally my thing... but I loved Red White and Royal Blue enough that realistically, I’ll probably read anything the author writes! And I’m so glad I read this one!! It totally lived up to my hopeful expectations. It was equal parts soft and lovely, while still being a wild ride (was that a “riding the subway” pun? eh maybe 🤷🏻) filled with important conversations and topics and representation! I can’t wait to see what Casey writes next!

(PS. Casey, if you’re reading this ... I am sure I won’t be the first, or the last, to say this ... but ... I need a Wes spinoff like I need air in my lungs!)

This book was adorable and NOTHING like what I thought (in a great way)! Not only was it a cute rom com with so many laugh out loud moments, but it was also a mystery that was so fun to try to figure out. There were so many aspects of this book that I loved. One, the amazing, genuine friendships between August and her roommates. She was brand new to the city and they were so sweet and welcoming. You could really see how they became closer as the story went on and that they were forcing August to slowly come out of her shell until she could really be herself. Two, the relationship between August and Jane was the cutest thing to read. As the reader, you can tell right away that they have a great connection, and it was so fun to explore that even with the added obstacles tied up in the plot. Three, the mysterious background of Jane AND August's uncle. We know from the beginning that August's uncle disappeared years ago and the big question mark around his disappearance has consumed her mother her entire life. Then, we meet Jane who has a similar story of being lost from where she came from, the mystery does the same thing to August, who becomes obsessed with figuring out what happened to Jane. I was such a huge fan of Red, White, and Royal Blue so I jumped at the chance to read this follow up by McQuiston. It did not disappoint! 4.5 stars

As someone who really enjoyed Red, White, and Royal Blue, I was so excited to see that Casey McQuiston had a new book! I was even more excited to receive a digital advanced copy from NetGalley. One Last Stop captured my attention from the very beginning. I quickly became invested in the characters and was anxious to see where the story would lead. I am not normally a fan of books that have an element of supernatural or magic, so I'll admit that I almost abandoned this book when I realized those things came into play. But I'm glad I stuck with it and had the opportunity to experience Jane and August's love story!