August is awkward, relatable, and totally stumped on answering the question "who are you and who do you want to be when you grow up?". With the novel's unofficial playlist on and my brain on pause from it's usual "I would never read this type of novel" turned off, I sat down to read One Last Stop and just did not stop. "She kisses her like she's making a reputation." Their journey to discover just what happened to Jane and what can be done to help is what turns August from a secondary character in her own life into the heroine. August's affections for Jane literally made me the cute watery eye emoji. This would have usually turned me off from the read, but my word I could not put this book down if I tried. Then there's Jane, the gorgeous punk girl who gives off 70's vibes, only she really is from the 70's and stuck in time. The world building in this novel is perfection, taking us into modern day subway tunnels and the diners that never seem to change. Today is the day August will finally cry."Īugust and her band of merry friends are quintessential New Yorkers, from different places and perspectives with their bonds formed through the unique-to-New-York struggle to survive. "The hottest girl August has ever seen just took one look at her and said, 'Yikes.' That's it. Forgive me now for saying perfect so much. This is just one of the books of 2021 that I will never stop recommending.
I mean, I literally woke up and picked up my phone to keep reading. She delivered a perfect coming-of-age, time travel, queer romance novel that was absolutely impossible to put down. Casey McQuiston saw the sophomore novel challenge and said, let me just show you what I can do. Hi, my name is Carlene and I have a big, fat crush on Jane and I think, though I hesitate to say it, that I liked (loved) this book more than Red, White, and Royal Blue. 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. 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. Martin's Griffinįrom 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. I think that all love stories should have some element of yearning to be compelling, but when it's a queer love story, I feel like if you don't have that element of yearning, it sometimes doesn't work.Published June 1st 2021 by St. Especially in romance, I feel like we always need more of them.īut in terms of longing, I think that so much of the queer experience is yearning. This is somebody who is, on the page, described as somebody worth longing for because I don't think that butch lesbians get their due. When I set out to write this book, one of my objectives was to write a book in which the love interest is a butch lesbian. That's a common theme in romance in general, but it's kind of turning it on its head to have it be in a woman-loving-woman (wlw) context. There are these really rich descriptions of Jane as someone to desire. In "One Last Stop," you give us so much of August longing for Jane before they're actually together. 'One Last Stop' has similar themes to 'Red, White, and Royal Blue,' but McQuiston shows her growth as an author in the book
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