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One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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astralfeline's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book is sweet, fun, and hilarious! You fall in love with all the characters instantly. It's the right amount of quirky without being over the top. The characters also seem very real, like I wouldn't be surprised if I ran into Isaiah at Trader Joe's or something. I took off a star because I don't usually read/listen to romance so I didn't love the spicy parts but I still really enjoyed the book!

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lycheeteareads's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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sage_alexandra's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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amberinpieces's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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violetends's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was so lighthearted and warm and fuzzy and adorable, I loved it from the first to the last page. I am so happy to read about a character I can identitfy with, namely a bisexual who is struggling their way through university, lives in shared apartments and is reliant on a side-job. I can barely think of other narratives that I have read so far depicting queer characters that are not either in highschool or in their mid-thirties and I am so so happy to finally find narratives that depict the stage of life I find myself in.

The paranormal elements were plotted so well and fun. (Even though I found many plot revelations to be very foreseeable because McQuinston placed foreshadowing hints regularly and it felt a little obvious how those were left hanging in the air, even though it would have absolutely made sense to answer the obvious questions following these hints or for the characters to ask these questions at least.)

This is a little all over the place. Altogether, One Last Stop made me feel a whole lot of things. How the different characters from the flat/ house form a community, how the love between August and Jane develops and the many, many lovely (queer) events and parties they go to. It created a certain ache in my heart for this kind of community that I crave so bad. And McQuinston wrote these people and their interactions so well that I'd just love to live in the same house with them, honestly.

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sarahamuller1's review against another edition

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funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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merle_bookdragon's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am sitting here, struggling with words outside of "it was just SO good," because honestly, it was. I was a little scared going into it because I LOVED RW&RB and sometimes second books from authors I loved disappoint me but oh MAN this did NOT disappoint.

This review will contain spoilers.

I went into this with a very vague idea of the blurb being "girl meets other girl on subway and falls in love" so let me tell you I was surprised when suddenly there was time travel involved? Or time ... jumps? Blips? I don't know what to call it. Anyway, I was NOT expecting this fantastical/magical/sc-ifi element? However, I really enjoyed it because it gave the narrative a nice frame to exist in and also guaranteed to a certain degree that the story would progress because they were on a time grind.

Found family is my absolute favorite trope maybe EVER so of course I loved August, Myla, Niko, and Wes' flat family, then adding Isaiah and (more or less technically) Jane, and of course all the people from Billy's and UGH it just made me very happy because what is a life goal if not a very happy (queer) family of people. The book also gave enough "screentime" to the other characters and their stories, giving the reader a break from the main narrative without taking away from it at all.

"I wish I was never born," August moans into the floor.
"Retweet," Wes says solemnly.

Otherwise:
- A+ jokes, like honestly I love when characters have good humor
- so much queerness and especially so much drag, i love it
- also kinda of a little love letter to New York? from a very genuine perspective I think, considering McQuiston also currently lives in the city
- two scenes that I would officially titled "pretty spicy" but could be skipped if the reader isn't comfortable with details, I am still questioning their sanity after they did it on the Q ngl
- Wes needs a hug and should be protected
- Niko and Myla = powercouple
- I wish I had HALF the swag that Jane has

Anyway I think that's it for now but honestly truly really loved it.

And she'd do figure drawing, where she'd draw the negative space around a person first, and then fill in the person. And that's how I'm trying to look at it. Maybe I don't know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it's made of, if it's good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.

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jkneebone's review

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emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Casey McQuiston tackles time-travel romance in One Last Stop. August is a new arrival to Brooklyn, a wanderer trying to distance herself from her mother - and her mother's obsession with the cold case of her brother's disappearance forty-plus years before - who still hasn't found a place to settle down. On the Q train, she meets Jane Su, a 70s-style punk lesbian...who's actually from the 70s. She's trapped in time, and August is ready to use her deeply engrained investigative skills to figure out who Jane is, where she came from - and how to get her back where she belongs.

Things I adored about this book: The side characters - all of August's coworkers at Pancake Billy's, and especially her roommates-slash-found family-slash-band of misfits. The descriptions of NYC and especially Brooklyn. August's complicated relationship with her mother. Jane's backstory, and the window it gives into queer history. The simmering, sultry relationship between Jane and August, and how we get to see it develop. The side plot about fighting gentrification. How aggressively queer it is (the cast of characters are almost entirely LGBT, and August & co frequently attend drag shows etc).

Things I struggled with about this book: The fact that it is explicitly set in 2020 when it was published in summer 2021 (I know it was probably already written & edited pre-pandemic, but changing the dates would have been - to me - a good use of time). The pacing (it drags at the beginning). The genre combo/overlap of sci-fi(?) and romance (usually in romance, you know the characters will end up together, and I spent way too much time worrying because I didn't know *how* that could possibly work out).

Although I ultimately really enjoyed this when I finally finished, it took me a looooong time to get through it. I kept starting, getting distracted, reading ahead, then putting it down and not wanting to come back to it. I didn't realize going in that it was a time travel book, and I was really having trouble reconciling the romance conceits I would usually expect with the unfamiliar, how-to-get-Jane-unstuck plot that felt at times very uncertain. I don't think this is a fault or a failure of McQuiston's - if anything it's a failure of the way we market books - because it was a cool idea that was pulled off really well in the end. But I did dock a half-star from my overall rating since it was so hard for me to get into the book at first.

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