This was a charming book! Some of the plotting felt a little too convenient, but I loved it anyway. Fun characters. I would love to listen to the soundtrack for this story.

I have had this book on my TBR for months, but I had a bit of trouble getting going. Once I got past the first chapter and let go of the idea this was going to be anything like RWRB, I got into the flow. Honestly, this book reminded me more of something like Raven Boys with the psychics and the underlying magical elements and the large cast of characters. The fun of this book comes from both the unfolding mystery of Jane and the whole side world and found family surrounding the central romance. There were a LOT (so many) coincidences throughout that I decided to chalk up to "part of the magic" rather than get tripped up over. Overall, this is a cute, off-beat, paranormal romance with a unique premise and tons of world. I was impressed by how many threads the author was able to pull together to create this tight puzzle of a book.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. McQuiston's first book "Red, White and Royal Blue" was among my top books of 2020, but I have to say "One Last Stop" outshined it for me! There are so many elements combining to form a Sapphic romance with a time slip mystery that really gives it some intellecual and emotional heft. New York City itself is a major character, and the concept of a chosen/found family is a very impactful plot point. The time slip element of the plot at first was a bit fuzzy for this reader, but the strength of the characters and the elements related to LGBTQ history allowed that concern to quickly scatter like dust in the subway doors. I loved this book so much, I wish it had continued for another 100 pages for to tell me more, more, more about the characters I had grown to love and care about so much.

I loved Red, White and Royal Blue so very much. I went into One Last Stop very nervous that this novel couldn't live up to those expectations. And in a certain way I was right- it is not quite as ideal in my estimation. But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, readers! One Last Stop is super adorable. We have some tropes that really hit what current romance readers seem to want- there's a journey through New York City and a strong sense of place. There's a found family of welcoming people of all colors and gender and romantic expressions. There's a couple who are neither of them perfect, but both grow together. I really did love it. The sense of place, the fantastic cast of characters- the more I think about the book the more I am actually enjoying it. And the writing is just as charming in McQuiston's other books.

Five stars for witty dialogue, travels in time, and unadulterated friendly joy. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for this unbiased review!

Like the Author's previous offering Red White and Royal Blue, this is sure to be a smash hit. It's a quieter, more nuanced read of love, sacrifice, and found family. It's also about finding the courage to strike it out on one's own, letting people in, and acknowledging that you are worthy of finding love, and once did, fighting for that love to stay.

More than the two main characters, I found myself falling for the side characters-- August's friends and roommates and her diner workmates. You get to see glimpses of their own stories (some more than others) and each one serves as a handy mirror reflecting August"s own emotions back to herself.

Highly recommend!

One Last Stop tells the story of August Landry, who moves to NYC and meets a girl on the subway.... a girl who always seems to be on the subway. What follows is a glorious, giddy story about time and opportunity and finding a place where we WANT to belong.

While this didn’t have the “YEARNING!!!!!” element of Red, White, and Royal Blue, McQuiston's first novel, One Last Stop was chock full of characters that I adored (Niko and Isaiah were particular favorites). I’m a sucker for a snarky, sparkly dialogue and merry bands of misfits, and this book had both of those in spades. So so excited to see what else Casey McQuiston has up her sleeve. HUGE ups to @netgalley and MacMillan for an early copy of this gal

Sometimes I get so jazzed about an author that I just jump into their books without reading anything about the book. That was the case with this novel. I was not expecting the fantasy element at all. BUT I LOVED IT! I love all the pancakes and people smelling of syrup. It sounds like the best perfume. I loved the friendships that August creates with her roommates. They are the coolest bunch of friends. Who doesn’t love a psychic?! Read if you wished for a queer present day Outlander. I was given an advanced reader's copy via NetGalley, thank you to them. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I didn’t have quite the same insta-love for this one as I did RWaRB, but I still really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the themes of found family and finding what’s missing, whether that’s a person, an object, or your purpose in life.

At times, I wanted a little more explanation or background and a few plot points felt slightly underdeveloped, but in general this was a fun and light read that I would recommend!

Casey McQuiston is a true delight and perfectly straddles the line between YA and Adult fiction. This book will appeal to many and I love the way McQuiston approaches discussions on gender and sexuality. I loved Red White and Royal Blue so much and McQuiston's newest novel lived up to it. Will definitely be purchasing for my library's collection.

Yes, it's just as amazing as you all hope it is.

Casey McQuiston's writing has touched so many people and will continue to do so for years to come, but it's hard to believe sometimes that her books are not written for me specifically. RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE came into my life when I was 22, living in Austin, and on the verge of questioning my sexuality for the first time. When I started to realize I was bisexual, Alex Claremont Diaz is the character that helped me contextualize my own experiences and gave me the courage to be myself. For this reason and a thousand others, RWRB became my all-time favorite book and genuinely changed my life. So naturally, I approached Casey's second book with both uncontainable excitement and unprecedented terror. With a book you anticipate this highly, especially an author's follow up to your favorite book ever, there are two possibilities. Either the book won't live up to your expectations, and you'll be crushed, or the book will be just as amazing as the first, and you'll be blown away and reduced to a puddle of emotion on your bedroom floor. Both of these outcomes scared me for different reasons, but I am thrilled to declare that Casey McQuiston's sophomore novel is not only a worthy successor to Red, White & Royal Blue, but also just as shockingly, deeply personal to me. Because while Alex Claremont Diaz came into my life when I was a questioning 22-year-old living in Texas, I met August as a 23-year-old bisexual woman from the south who found herself living a (relatively) new life in the Prospect Park area of Brooklyn. August rides my trains, she lives above my neighborhood Popeyes, and I saw myself in her in ways I have not seen myself in a book character in quite some time.

For me, the true magic of One Last Stop is the way that this book, set in my own neighborhood, could still transport me to a a different place. The familiar and the fantastical perfectly combine in this book in a way that make me feel as if I could have my own unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime love story on my own block. It made me love this beautiful, crazy city more than I already do, and made me miss the daily routine of riding the subway--which shouldn't even be possible, haha. Casey manages to create magic in the familiar, and that alone could earn this book 5 glowing stars.

One of the most surprisingly delightful parts of this book are the friendships and the sense of queer community that Casey establishes between August and her friends. Brooklyn and New York City in general is such a special place to be queer, and seeing a queer found family like this one play such a prominent role in this book made my heart sing. I went into this book knowing that August and Jane would steal my heart, but I never could have guessed that I would become just as obsessed with Niko and Myla and Wes and Isaiah. Romance books that emphasize the power of friendship alongside romance are few and far between, and made this book extra special for me. Niko and Myla might have been my two favorite characters in the whole book, even. I laughed out loud through so many of their scenes and was also touched by their own backstories.

But of course, I could not praise this book without talking about how much I adore the romance. Jane and August have INSANE chemistry, and I love that we got to know and love each of them as people before we ever saw them come together as a couple. I was so interested and touched by Jane's stories of her past, but also desperate for her to be able to stay in the present day with August. This romance made me scream, gasp, blush, and laugh. I was so afraid to get to the end of this book because I was not ready to say goodbye to August and Jane's relationship. I've sat on this review for several months and still my passion for this love story and these characters has not faded.

Fans of Casey McQuiston and new readers alike, brace yourselves. You're not ready for this book. I can't wait for this book to be out in the world for everyone!

The little family that makes up the apartment in One Last Stop is definitely the lynchpin of this story. These characters that Casey McQuiston has created are pure warmth. They make a truly strange and interesting story feel a little more real. August goes very quickly from being alone to having a family, comfort, a home. Reading about this ragtag band of misfits is like drinking a perfect cup of tea when you’re sad. McQuiston shoves August into a plot that is perfectly tropey and yet endlessly fresh and interesting. I’ve read my fair share of party scenes in books and yet I think I’d give my kingdom for a chance to go to Easter Drag Brunch at Annie’s. And on top of all the fun and comfort and home and plot, she gives August a love story. Cool, exciting, blush-inducing love, the kind that makes you sort of panic through the last entire half of the novel. A love that is strange and undeniable. For a story about a girl stuck on a train, this book isn’t ever static. I think a lot of readers are going to be drawn to it. I can’t wait to start recommending.

I love a book with a full cast of queer characters! Though time travel is not generally my thing - One Last Stop still worked for me. The mystery aspect was interesting and engaging, but as the book ended I found myself wishing that I’d had more time with August and Jane existing together in the world of the current timeline.

I absolutely LOVE this book! I fell in love with every character. I fell in love with the city. I fell in love with the feeling. Family. Belonging. Person. Place. Time. Filled with humor and love, wit and charm. This is a book I will read time and time again as I am sure I will not stop thinking about it for some time. Absolute gem!

This is a DNF for me. I loved McQuiston's first novel, but I just couldn't get through her sophomore work.

An absolute gem of a book!! It's fun and full of wonderful characters. It captures that feel the city has --that anything can happen. It will make you swoon! I LOVE this book.

My biggest issue was August as a protagonist. Most of her actions felt very convenient and the way that the things continued to fall into place for her [ such as never having to do any assignments, to the way her family was intertwined with Jane's story, to the way she was absent from work for long stretches of time and was yet still able to pay her share of the rent and never get fired ] was all too coincidental for me. So much of the book also had the romance feeling very one-sided to me, and not in a fun unrequited way, but in a rather disturbing I was uncomfortable with how the relationship had been framed way. There was something about this dark skinned Asian woman being saved by this white girl from the south that just rubbed me the wrong way. The way the narrative was framed as Jane being in this position where she couldn't remember anything without August and August being the key to unlocking everything, it never felt as though Jane had any sort of agency in a story that was essentially about her but was being relayed to us through August. Even August was odd as several times throughout the novel it read as though we were experiencing things through an unnamed third narrator as the running commentary in the book just didn't make sense. It was also hard for me to believe that August would dive so headfirst into trying to unlock the mystery surrounding Jane given how the novel sets her up as no longer wanting to be in the kind of life her mother had raised her in, and even the final decision August makes about her future later in the book doesn't seem grounded in any kind of reality that had been conveyed to me.

I also was not a fan of the pacing. This book seemed to drag for large stretches of filler content only to then speed through what could have been important and plot-related content. Not that I think any of it would have actually helped because by the time I hit the 50% mark I was fully ready to call it a day and be done with this reading experience. By that point, things had been o slow to develop that the adding tensions didn't really do anything for me as a reader. Especially given that as a romance I knew that nothing bad could really happen to our characters and the efforts in the last third to subvert that were more annoying than feeling like they offered any kind of meaningful payoff.

Overall I did not enjoy my time reading this and I likely would not recommend it to others as I simply had too many issues and there weren't nearly enough things I enjoyed to

One of my favorite books of the year. I was not expecting the extra time travel element, but it made the story that much more interesting! I actually like this one more than the previous book by the author, which was hard to top. I love seeing girls supporting girls and controlling the narrative. Definitely one to buy!

I started this book at 9:30pm last night... and stayed up till 6:30am to finish it. I never once felt tired, or felt like I needed to skip to the end. It was a beautiful 8 hours of constant need to see how these two characters ended up.

I laughed- I can’t tell you how many times I laughed. I cried- oh did I cry. I was in awe. I was starstruck. I was... way too attracted to these fictional characters and HOW DARE CASEY make the perfect girl for me in a book. I’m obviously talking about both August and Jane.

I’m a SIMP for anything with a touch of time travel in it and I do blame that specific reason on why I love this book so much. Done so beautifully.

ALSO... how... how did Casey McQuiston make me love... everyone in this book so much!? How!? I can’t tell you the last book I read where I just loved... everyone.

Please, pleas pre-order, read & read again. I’m gonna go cry now. (Also- thanks for the ARC- seriously- I’ve never been so thankful)

I really loved this book! The found family aspects were especially wonderful, and I love seeing so many people who accept and love each other so well.

August meets lovely Jane on a subway and finds that the best part of her day is spent in those little moments with Jane.
Soon she realizes that something is off about Jane, does she even belong in this decade?

This book surprised me! I wasn’t expecting such a love story in this sci-fi esque book. Some great steamy romance in this female/female relationship and I was here. for. it.
The side characters were so fun in this one as well. August’s rag tag roommates and their dynamics made me think of the show New Girl, but add in some LGBTQ love, a psychic, a drag queen, and it’s all the more better. I love how McQuiston can write a character that makes you want to meet that person IRL so bad. And somehow you feel like they are already a friend of yours.

I don’t want to spoil much with the whole “time travel/ alternate universe” plot. You’ll have to read that for yourself. But what I will say is that sometimes I had a hard time buying into it. I’ve read several other books recently with a similar vibe and while this one is definitely unique, it wasn’t the driving point of the book for me. So it was hard to push through the book at times, especially with this being a longer book.
Some cool things happen though. Some plot twists and turns. This was very different than McQuiston’s debut Red White and Royal Blue. But it worked! And I found the different vibe to be really fascinating. Not to mention all of the scenery of it being set in NYC. I love NYC and this book made we want to book another trip. Such a cool city.

Overall I gave this one 4.5 ⭐️s. And I recommend picking this one up when it releases on 6/1/21!