Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.Ĭasey 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. 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. Last Stop is by and large a humorous romance, replete with syrupy moments of love and ride-or-die friendships, but the complex themes of familial relationships. 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. From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a romantic comedy that will stop readers in their. 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. While this is pretty standard for the genre, I know I have some crossover readership, and I don’t want any readers to be surprised by what’s on the page.From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks.įor 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. It features a fair bit of adult content (yes, including sex scenes). One more thing before I get into it: like RWRB, OLS is an adult/new adult romance (characters aged 23-27). As always with content warnings, there are mild-to-moderate spoilers in here, so proceed with caution if you’d rather go in spoiler-free. I’ve divided this list of content warnings into things that actually feature on the page in the book and things that are recounted or discussed on-page but happened long before August and Jane’s story. All of these things carry our characters through to their happy endings, and they have hundreds of moments of being loved and deliriously happy in between. Specifically, it’s a queer romantic comedy, and like every queer person’s story, it’s complicated. A lot of her journey in this book is about rediscovering those memories, which means we hear about some ugly moments in the past.īy no means does any of this diminish the joy of OLS. Jane Su (the love interest of the book) is a Chinese American butch lesbian who spent her twenties in the gay, punk, and anti-war scenes of the 1970s, and those experiences shaped who she is. It’s also about queer communities past and present, how we find homes in one another, and the things we struggle with-now and throughout history. ONE LAST STOP is a joyful, messy story about falling in the kind of love that breaks the laws of time. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it’s time to start believing.Ĭasey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is an epic, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. Read One Last Stop online free from your Mobile, Table, PC.One Last Stop is genre Romance novel by author Casey McQuiston. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won’t quite let her go. The person August looks forward to seeing on her train every day. Time Magazine, The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021. A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart. Beautiful, impossible Jane.Īll hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. 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. And she certainly doesn’t believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that.īut then, there’s Jane. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. Pop Sugar A funny, modern, and entertaining novel, One Last Stop will have you rooting for love that makes people feel free to be their truest selves. Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. One Last Stop is the time-slip sapphic rom-com in book form that mixes real-life queer history with 2020 escapism youll want to hold onto forever.
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