I absolutely fell in love with this book. I listened to the audiobook and would recommend it 1000% percent! The book itself helps readers who identify who are queer or are struggling with their youth and purpose in their twenties. I saw myself in these characters and my relationship. and have recommended this to so many customers especially for pride month!

It’s Pride month!

Loved this book & the characters! Really enjoyable and different! I am trying to get more into the romance genre & after reading this, I am more excited to read romance.

I also really enjoyed the Narrator, truly told the story!

One Last Stop is a time-loop romance with lesbians and I'm completely here for it. This is my first foray into the world of Casey McQuiston and I am smitten and shall now read all the Casey McQuiston books. past and future. My friends have been bugging me to read Red, White, and Royal Blue for awhile and now I feel dumb for not doing it! I became completely immersed in August's world. She has a wonderful array of friends -- more like family that you actually like -- and I wanted to be with them. I loved that this book was full of good and healthy relationships.

And, then came Jane. She's mysterious and very sexy. " A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart" is probably my favourite quotes in the book. The attraction is instant -- For August and for me, to be completely honest. But, with all great love stories, there is always something standing in the way, right? In Jane's case, it's that she's stuck on the subway and actually older than she looks because she's been there since the 70s...

I love all the characters in this book, especially August. I feel I'm most like her, even though I want to be more like Jane.

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I received an ARC of the audiobook from Netgalley and Macmillan Audio in exchange for an honest review. August is new to New York City, looking for a place to live and a place to work. She finds a place, full of eccentric and amazing roommates, which quickly leads to a job at a diner. August finds herself commuting on the Q train every day, and as fate would have it, a gorgeous woman saves the day when she spills coffee all over herself. August finds herself drawn to this amazing, beautiful woman, Jane. When she asks Jane out, August takes her response of "I can't" as a rejection, until she realizes Jane is stuck on this train, trapped there since the 1970s, and Jane can't remember a thing about her past. August embarks on a quest, using her roommate's skills and support, to find where Jane is from, how she was lost, and how to get her unstuck.

This book was a wonderful love story of two women, fated to meet across time. There love is pure and heart wrenching. The side characters are fantastic and add extra life and "New York City" to the story. Narrator Natalie Naudus does an amazing job with this narrative that includes so voices, helping the listen always be aware of who is speaking. I really loved the characters, especially August. I know what it's like to move to a new, big city, and her story felt authentic. For me, the first half was slow, I wished there was more happening to move the story forward. It wasn’t an immediate page turner for me, but I was glad I stuck with it because ultimately it was a beautiful love story.

I loved this audiobook! It was unconventional, witty and refreshingly quirky. The main characters where extremely well done. They were likeable, relatable and a joy to read about. The historical timeline was a really interesting element, I think it added a lot of depth. The characters were super diverse and I loved the variations. The story was also well done. I also loved the narrator! This one is definitely worth a listen!

I adored this book so much! The characters, the romance, the family made of friends, the time travel element. It was all so much fun, yet had so much depth and heart. I really loved the pop culture and NYC setting- it really came alive and seemed almost like its own character in the book. This was my first read from McQuiston and I can't wait to read more.
The audio version of the book was fantastic. The narrators really brought the characters to life and made it a breeze to listen to! I highly recommend listening to this book.
Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the advance copy.

I definitely enjoyed this book but I didn't love it and seem to be in the minority, although it wasn't horrible it wasn't everything I had hoped for. I really enjoyed the narrater as she really embodied all of the characters. I loved the writing style and the way the story flowed. I was just unable to connect to the storyline.

I wasn't the biggest fan of Red, White & Royal Blue when I read it two years ago, so I found myself pleasantly surprised by how much I was enjoying this book through the first half. I enjoyed the well-drawn characters, the banter between friends, and the New York City details. This book lost me in the second half, mostly because it just dragged on and on and on. I hate using "it could've been 100 pages shorter" as a criticism, but in this case it's warranted.

Overall, an improvement on RW&RB, but additional editing could've helped strengthen the novel, especially in the back half.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC.

I really enjoyed this one. I liked the characters, storyline, and the writing.

It tackles a range of topics, but remains fun, light, and a perfect summer read. Some scenes were a little long for me personally, but overall I’d recommend it to any romance lover!

Who would have thought time travel and contemporary romance would go together so well? Apparently, @casey.mcquiston! This novel is beautiful and magical and so much fun!
I loved every single one of the characters (main and side, how often can you say that?!) and the found family they created. I loved how invested I was (and still am) in each character's story. I loved the interwoven queer history. I loved the representation of so many different cultures, sexualities, genders, and more. I loved the romance (both wildly sweet and steamy). Mostly, I loved Jane Su. I will never get over Jane Su.

Also, as a busy mom I am so grateful to have been able get my hands on an audiobook to listen to this unbelievable story. Thank you to @netgalley and the publisher for the audiobook ARC.

This book was one of my most anticipated releases for this year and I am sad to say that it left me a little disappointed.

I do not like when stories utilize time travel, it is just one of those things that I do not like reading or watching. But I actually really enjoyed how it was handled in this book. I also really liked the found family aspect of this book with August and her eccentric roommates.

The thing that made me the maddest while reading (I even considered DNFing, but there were only like 100 pages left so I trucked on through) was when Jane, a POC, said that someone called her a homophobic slur and a racial slur and our WHITE protagonist August tells her that most people aren't like that anymore. August, who has never dealt with racism in her life, is telling a POC to brush off the harmful things that a stranger had said to her. To me that sounds extremely tone-deaf and gross, I could have interpreted what she said the wrong way but it made the rest of the book really hard for me to enjoy after reading that.

I adored this book so much. Casey McQuiston was able to make you fall in love with all of the characters, as well as the location of the book. Each character brought a different dynamic to the story - both main characters and side characters. I felt as though I could connect with each character, no matter how long they were in the story. Alongside the characters, being in the middle of New York was also a major part of the story. I would fall in love with each new location that was mentioned. While this book is a romance between two characters, it also felt like a love letter to NYC.

I would both laugh and cry all the whole way through this book. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a great LGBTQ+ romance with a bit of a twist.

The narrator was absolutely incredible and was able to give a different voice to each character. I felt as though I connected with characters more because they felt like different people, when most audiobooks the characters voices tend to blend together. I did not have this issue at all!!

THIS BOOK. The queer rom-com I would have killed to have read growing up.

Casey McQuiston has taken the success of Red, White, and Royal Blue and transformed it into yet another hit: One Last Stop. Our protagonist, August Landry, a Louisiana girl with a penchant for minimalism, stumbles her way into Jane Su's life one January day, coffee-stained shirt and all. "Hey, coffee girl." What ensues from August's infamous ride on the Q train is a tale of love, loss, found family, and finding your place. Myla, Niko, and Wes, August's roommates above the Popeye's are a cast of characters that as a queer person myself I could easily find in my own life. The nuance of Casey's writing is the feelings she elicits from the first page. You can smell Billy's pancakes, hear the bustle of NYC foot traffic on the Q and the screeching brakes of the train, feel the butterflies that float in your stomach when August sees Jane, imagine the taste of the sampling of bagels Jane tries to regain her memories, and feel the heated touch of Jane when she hands August a scarf to cover up her coffee spill. The banter, the drag queens, the pure feelings of moving to New York to try to figure out who you are and where you belong... these eternal themes, this endearing story, these unmissable characters, and this heartstrings-tugging love are a triumph. I am so damn grateful to live during the time of Casey McQuiston.

Unlike the rest of the world, I've not yet read Red, White & Royal Blue. I keep meaning to, but... life. I'm going to get to it asap now, but goodness, what if it doesn't compare to this gem? This was SO good. It was enjoyable and cute, sweet and interesting, unique, fast paced, well written, I laughed, I cried, I gasped at the surprises. It was one of those books that are just so dang readable. the characters were great, unique, realistic, well developed. I just... really, really liked this one.

I loved this book. I was sold when I saw the author, add in time travel and I had to read this one. August was such an awesome character. We watched her grow so much. Seeing Jane get her memories back was so interesting. The romance was steamy. I highly recommend this. Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the audioARC of this in exchange for an honest review.

I really liked the story in this book. Time travel of a 1960's rocker is a trip in itself.
It was well written and I enjoyed how well the peripheral characters were drawn.
I did find, however, the audio was a bit choppy and some words a bit difficult to decipher.

A beautiful love story with a really interesting sci-fi element. Super interesting side characters that made the story that much better. Everything I hoped it would be!

I was a little worried that this novel would be cheesy and corny with the time-traveling premise. But, boy, was I wrong. I was hooked from the opening chapter and wanted to live in this world that Casey McQuiston built. I fell in love with this book. I loved the unique cast of characters and the witty humourous way Casey McQuiston writes. This book is a must-read, especially for PRIDE month.

The first time August met Jane was on the subway. Specifically, the Q train in Brooklyn. She was in a hurry to get to class and had just spilled coffee all over herself. Jane saw her and gave her a scarf to wear to cover the stain.

August had just recently moved to Brooklyn. She had found yet another college, to see if this one would help her feel more at home in the world. She found a room to rent, with quirky but interesting roommates. One of her roommates, Myla, helped her get a job waitressing at their favorite restaurant (really, a favorite of most of Brooklyn), Billy’s House of Pancakes, despite her having no experience serving. And then she met Jane.

After seeing Jane (“Subway Girl”), a Chinese-American punk rock loving lesbian who is a sort of subway angel, sharing kindness and happiness on the Q line whenever she can, August can’t believe her luck in seeing her again. And again. And again. At first August (known to Jane as “Coffee Girl”) thinks they must have the same schedule, since they show up on the same train every day. But then she realizes that not only are they on the same train every day, they’re always in the same car. And August is smart enough to figure out that there is something not quite right about that.

She’s not one to believe in psychics, but her roommate Niko is a psychic, so August decides to ask his opinion. Has she spent her subway rides flirting with a ghost? Nope, he says. Jane is definitely not a ghost, but they’re not entirely sure what she is.

August decides to investigate, to find out as much as she can about Jane, to see what’s really going on with her. And she’s not doing it because she has feelings for Jane. Because she definitely doesn’t have feelings for Jane. She can’t have feelings for Jane. (Except she does have feelings for Jane, no matter what she tells herself or does to try to make the feelings go away.)

The weeks melt by, August balancing her classes and shifts at Billy’s, her time on the train with Jane and her time with her new friends. There are her roommates Myla, Niko, and Wes. The gang who work at Billy’s. And the drag queen Annie Depressant, who comes by for pancakes after her show. And there is Jane. There is always Jane.

As August digs deeper into Jane’s past, and Jane opens up about her secrets, they become closer. And as they become closer, Jane remembers more of her past. Eventually, August figures out that Jane is stuck on the Q line of the subway. She’s not dead, but she’s not fully alive either. It’s like she got stuck in time, stuck in place, and it’s August’s unique energy that helps her figure out when it happened and how. But is there a way to break Jane loose from the subway? Or will August spend her life being in love with a woman stuck on the Q line?

One Last Stop is a beautiful, strange, lovely, magical, astounding love story that transcends time and makes you believe in soulmates. From author Casey McQuiston, who brought us Red, White, and Royal Blue, this story is electric. The characters sparkle, the conversations feel entirely real, and the place is as magnetic as the language that draws you closer and closer not only to the heart of the New York City but to your own heart, filling in the cracks with gold paint like Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold or silver dust mixed in lacquer.

I got to listen to One Last Stop on audio, narrated by Natalie Naudus, and I thought it was the perfect marriage of story and narrator. Naudus brought this beautiful story to life, each character with a personality that shone through with her tone, pitch, and inflection. There are some pretty steamy scenes in there, so I recommend you not listen while driving your car during those scenes, but the rest of the book can be enjoyed in your car, at work, at home, while cleaning or crafting or whatever you do while listening to audiobooks.

I was blown away by this book. The writing is beautiful, the characters are people I would love to hang out with in real life, and the depth that McQuiston is able to accomplish with this love story is admirable. I especially enjoyed how much history she was able to imbue this story with, from the struggles that the gay community faced in the 1970s to the punk rock scene in New York’s CBGB. The riots, the insults, the violence and on through the devastation of AIDS, the history of the LGBTQ+ community is filled with painful realities and individuals who faced all the indignities and tried to find healing for themselves and those they loved, and somehow, McQuiston was able to share a surprising amount of that history through Jane’s lifetime. Basically, One Last Stop is just a heck of a ride, and we are all the better for having bought a token.

A copy of the audio book for One Last Stop was provided by Macmillan Audio through NetGalley, with many thanks.

Let me guess… you have doubts that Casey McQuiston could follow up Red, White, and Royal Blue with anything even half as amazing, right? Well, I can safely say those doubts are completely unfounded.

One Last Stop follows August as she comes to New York City on her latest stop to figure out what she should do with her life. Her childhood has left her closed off and she’s determined to prove that being alone is the only way to be. Plus, her roommates are strange and waiting tables is a horrible job. Not to mention having to take the subway every day. Except the subway is where she meets Jane and Jane is so interesting that August soon finds herself arranging her schedule to see Jane in the train. Until one day she realizes that Jane is always on the train… because she can’t get off. Jane has been trapped in time for 45 years, but August is determined to figure out how to get Jane off the train and back to her time. What August doesn’t expect is to find true friends, family, and love in the process.

This book was un-put-downable. Or, in my case, I did not want to stop listening. Both the book and the narration were amazing. I can safely say that I have not read a time travel romance before and the concept would have given me pause if I had stopped to realize that’s what this book was. By the time I listened to it, I had completely forgotten it was part of this book. But it was great! Such a fun twist to a contemporary romance.

What I loved most about One Last Stop is that it wasn’t just a love story. It was truly August’s story. She finds so much more than just love. She finds a way to move forward after running from family ghosts. She finds the most fierce and loyal group of friends who become her found family. She finds a place to belong and a purpose. It sounds like a lot and like it could get too deep for a romance, but it’s not. Casey balances all of it with just the right amount of heart and warmth and sarcasm and humor and just, realness. And Natalie Naudus’ narration portrayed that all perfectly.

And if you like found family stories even a little, you definitely want to meet this passionately irreverent and unabashedly queer family. This group is undoubtedly on my list of best found families.

Bottom line, two book in and I can’t wait to see what story Casey brings us next. Officially an auto buy author for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an ALC in exchange for an honest review.