Book Review: One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston

The Stats

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: One Last Stop

AUTHOR: Casey McQuiston @casey.mcquiston

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin @stmartinspress

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢

Published: June 1, 2021

https://amzn.to/3uOBHaw

The Review

✨ The Title/Cover Draw:

• This was one of my anticipated reads for 2021. While “Red, White, and Royal Blue” wasn’t a total fav of mine, I wanted to give it another shot. Thank you to @netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for allowing me to read an advanced copy.

💜 What I liked:

• The community of people in the book is supportive and connected, which is one of my favorite things in books. There is also a mystery aspect which kept me reading along.

😱 What I didn’t like:

• This was a slow read for me. As much as I loved the characters, I almost DNF’d this book. But halfway through it started to pick up speed and I was so glad I ended up finishing it. 

💁‍♀️ The Characters:

• August meets Jane on the subway not long after she moves to New York. But Jane seems to exist ONLY in the subway. August’s roommates Myla, Niko, and Wes help to discover who Jane really is. 

🚦 My face at the end: 😹😻

💭 5 Reasons to Read:

1. Characters that are diverse and quirky
2.  Mysterious plot points
3. LGBTQ+ representation
4. Feel good motivations
5. Get some tissue handy

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.

📘 Summary:

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.

But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.

Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.

Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.