One Last Stop is just so full of love and reading this, I felt like McQuiston poured so much warmth into this book. Both of her novels feel like hugs when you really need one. This is something that McQuiston also nails – the sense of family and belonging. In many ways, her arc is the quintessential coming of age story, of finding your place in the world, but also finding your people, finding your community. First of all, August was a great main character. One Last Stop has one of the best queer found families I ever read about. All of her characters feel like real, flawed people, and I think she is fantastic at making a really compelling cast of characters. And in many ways, I absolutely love One Last Stop.Ĭasey McQuiston cements herself as one of my favorite authors, because she is so good at character work. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.īasically, Red, White and Royal Blue is one of my favorite books of all time, and One Last Stop was one of my most anticipated releases of the year. 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. 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. 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. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. 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. Goodreads blurb: 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.

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