I requested this as I’d seen the hype surrounding it. I love nothing more than a little light-hearted romance, and one set around the Tube seemed to be a match made in heaven. Sadly, all that I received was disappointment.

It started out doing its absolute best to tell me everything, and I found it difficult to get into the book when errors are so glaringly obvious. Phone signal has not arrived in the depths of Angel station (I’m pretty sure it’s not even available halfway down the escalator). There is absolutely no chance that you’re texting your best friend unless you’re desperately trying to cling onto the WiFi as it loads at each station.

Despite the romance being between two grown adults, the language was juvenile and the whole narrative felt stilted and like it couldn’t quite decide if it wanted to broach the adult romance genre. Everything was presented in too idealistic a manner and paired with the must be as woke and related as possible stance it takes, it felt cheap and depthless.

I have no doubt that this will find its audience, and that they will love it.

This was a cute romcom, even if it did rely on an awful lot of coincidences which affected believability. It did feel a little long though, and it took a while to finish what should have been a cute and quick read. 3.5 out of 5.

The strange thing with this book is that I started off not liking it. I found it too Chick Lit though I loved The Flatshare. I'd say that the second half gets a lot better than the first and I really wanted to see what happened. I went from skimming through the pages to reading, keen to find out what would happen.

It's a standard boy meets girl story though this on is through the missing connections column that you see in papers like The Metro. Admittedly I used to like reading that column too so this was a great idea for a book. It does get a bit annoying how they keep missing each other and some of the reasons are far fetched, though it's that kind of book. It's also predictable.

I'd recommend for anyone who likes Laura Jane Williams and those of you who fancy a light hearted read.

That said it's not for the easily offended as there are parts of the book which are pretty offensive.

I LOVED this book!
Nadia is turning over a new leaf, trying to get to work on time, and only just managed to get on the 7.30am train to work after the door is held for her. Daniel has been having trouble sleeping after the death of his father so he is on his way to work on the same train.
Someone posts a message in the local newspaper for “the girl with the coffee stained dress”
Encouraged by friends, Nadia is led to believe the message is for her and she and Daniel begin a conversation via the newspaper, trying to meet but always narrowly missing each other. A couple of near misses and a short lived relationship with someone else ensue before the online relationship becomes real life.
I loved the well written characters in Laura Jane Williams book, (even the one that wasn’t very likeable but who managed to redeem himself by making an effort to be a better person.) and would love to see these characters again.

Absolutely lovely book full of friendship and romantic near misses. The book looks at how being in one place and the right time can mean that you meet someone special or you don’t.

I loved the character development and the various relationships that are ongoing within the book.

The book as a whole is a lovely, enjoyable read which is very relatable. The cover is stunning and I would definitely pick this up in a book shop!

Easy, enjoyable read that's perfect for lazy days around the pool.

Likeable characters & definitely a feeling of a modern day "Sliding Doors"

Oh, man. I should have loved this book. I don't understand how it went so wrong. The premise is adorable. I love the idea of people meeting via Missed Connections. I love that they wrote back and forth to each other. But... holy mackerel.

Daniel is absolutely perfect. He literally has no flaws. It's annoying because it's unrealistic, but it also comes across as the author trying too hard. She wants so badly to show us how woke Daniel is that it's just diadatic. It's too much. (And this is coming from someone who described her work in progress as liberal propoganda.) Nadia is so beautiful that all men can't help but fall in love with her instantly. She's also somehow smart enough to land a job in AI, despite coming across as not terribly bright. Worse, Nadia's job only ever comes up to show that Daniel is super perfect because he appreciates that she's strong and smart. We never see Nadia actually working. So it's basically the author telling us how smart she is while showing that she's anything but.

The voice is good, the writing is generally good but... it's just too over the top.

Delightful romantic novel, full of near misses, missed opportunities culminating in a tender meeting for their first date. Loved every moment of this book

I absolutely adored Our Stop! Such a charming story. Daniel Weissman sees Nadia Fielding near his work and immediately thinks she is beautiful and intelligent. Fate intervenes, and he realizes they ride the same 7:30 am train (most days). Instead of approaching her, he uses the "Missed Connections" section of the paper to reach out to her. What ensues is back and forth adverts in the newspaper, and several 'almost' moments of meetings.

I love that while both have the opportunities for love and dating elsewhere (with very promising people!), the dream of each other is what burns brightest for them. While adverts seem very old fashioned and I wonder if they would even work today, it was so ridiculously heart warming and touching. Reminded me a bit of You've Got Mail, without the hate to love trope.

P.S. What is with the Romeo and Juliet immersive movie experience? This is the second time I've read a novel with an immersive movie experience taking place in London (the other being One Day in December - Grease) and I think I officially need to move to London.

Thought this going to be your basic chick flick type book, but it was so much more! The storyline was great characters were fabulous and it is the perfect book for reading in the garden on a hot summers day!
Will be looking forward to reading more books by Laura.
Thank you netgalley.

The plot was cute enough, but not really unique - I've read similar, and I've read better. I just didn't feel that it was that well written - there was far too much telling, not enough showing. This is not her first book, and so I was surprised that the writing wasn't stronger.

I also wasn't a massive fan of the political elements of this novel. It is very clear that Williams is anti-brexit and anti-tory, and I couldn't see why this needed to be shoe horned into a supposed romance novel. Also, the section on consent was so forced that it felt very clearly aimed at the me-too generation. The vulgar over the top nature of the humour felt forced too, and very much like an attempt to be shocking and relevant.

Overall, totally not for me. I get it, Williams is a blogger, she's woke, she's feminist, she is peak millennial. She's also sadly in this case boring. I don't read a rom-com to be preached to about how bad Brexit is, how cool gender fluidity is, and how toxic traditional masculinity is. I agree with her perspectives, I just don't see how it was relevant to this novel, and it seriously affected my enjoyment of it. God knows what people who disagree would find to enjoy in it.

Edited to add - when discussing this novel with someone else, they pointed out what I had seemingly missed. The guy in this basically stalks the girl, but through a supposedly romantic manner. Surprised that this is ok with the author given her perspective on all things millennial. Surely this is a problematic plot point?

I tried and failed to get into this book. Disappointing as there has been so many good reviews on it.

Sadly for me it was a non starter.

What a lovely story! I didn’t really know what to expect going into this one. The cover and synopsis caught my attention on NetGalley and I was delightfully surprised when I was approved.

If you haven’t heard about this one, it’s about Nadia and Daniel. Nadia tries to catch the 7:30 train each morning. Sometimes she’s successful, sometimes not. She’s trying to get her life in order and organized. Daniel always catches the 7:30 train. He hasn’t slept that great since his dad’s unexpected death. He notices Nadia, but can’t quite work up the courage to introduce himself. Until he writes into the missed connection section of the newspaper…

This is definitely one of my favorite reads of the year. I highlighted so many lines and could not put it down. There are so many near-connections in the book it’ll have you wondering will they ever meet!? (I actually did text a friend who had just finished it at one point because I was getting a little scared 😆

Both Daniel and Nadia are extremely lovable characters. I loved how their stories and lives overlapped and they didn’t even know it. It makes me think of how much stuff I could be missing in my daily life. We live in such a distracted time and are constantly doing something, scrolling through something. We have our heads down and aren’t taking in the world around us. It makes me sad that we live in such a distracted world… but I digress.

This book! It’s so great and fun and I would very much like my own Daniel please and thank you. Maybe I can be like Nadia and speak it into existence.

The paperback comes out February 20th in the US but you can buy the ebook now!

A wonderfully adorable meet cute romance! This is perfect for fans of Christian Lauren and other light fun romance reads. It was the perfect blend of romance and comedy so that it wasn't overly cheesy but was a good balance of both! Fun likable characters and adorable relatable moments made this a super fast paced engrossing read! I will be paying attention to this author from now on!

A solid 3.5/4 stars, I really enjoyed Our Stop. It's light-hearted, sweet, funny and has great characters - Daniel is possibly the cutest human on earth.

When Nadia reads a description in the lonely hearts section of her newspaper, she quickly dismisses it as clearly not being her - there's just no way. But when two of her closest friends push her to respond in case it is, she's stunned to realise that she really might have caught the eye of a hopelessly romantic commuter...

Daniel does not put himself out there. He's just not that person. But life is there to be lived and, after putting his lonely hearts message out there to the world (and Nadia), he's starting to realise this could be the best thing for him. That is, until a string of unfortunately-timed incidents get between him and Nadia so that it seems like they'll never get the chance to meet.

The book is a little slow to start, with a lot of finicky detail that could have been shown rather than told about the place and people. However, the author soon hits her stride and Our Stop quickly becomes a tale of frustration (in the best way) and fun. A cute holiday read for anyone who loves a good rom-com. Daniel alone is worth giving this book a read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for the ARC provided in exchange for an honest opinion. This book was mentioned a lot on Bookstagram, so I decided to request it. Some people even compared it to The Flatshare, so I was sold right away. Although it was enjoyable, it didn’t live up to Beth O’Leary’s debut for me.

Nadia is intent on starting The New Routine to Change Her Life. Haven’t we all been there, coming up with dreamy resolutions? One of hers is to catch the 7.30 train to be at time for work. Daniel is used to getting that train, and he has been eying Nadia for a while. In order to not look like a creepy in this society where nobody talks to each other anymore, he writes a Missed Connection- post. This leads to a journey of coincidences, misunderstandings and…a Twitter trend.

The London setting amused me. I’ve been to the city twice now, and even I could follow along the subway line. There also were some restaurants that I recognized. I can always enjoy a book more if I don’t only feel like I’m there, but if I also know the setting already. I found myself laughing on plenty on occasions. One of Williams’s strong points is absolutely her modern humor.

He’d held his breath as he’d held the door, like a Taylor Swift lyric about an innocuous beginning and a happy ending and love that was always meant to be.

The characters are relatable and impossible not to like. Nadia is full of energy, and always eager to improve herself. After every date or bad story, she has to remind herself not all men are horrible. That, I understood. She is confident, and doesn’t support gender stereotypes. Neither does Daniel, who isn’t afraid to cry and show his soft side. He won’t oppress Nadia, and backs up feminism. He was insecure to the point where he bought female guides to learn how to talk with strangers. Not going to lie, that was helpful.

Unfortunately, the plot went down too slow. I didn’t really like the writing style, and unimportant things were dragged. That one single chapter for Eddie was random? This surely could have been told in lesser pages, and the use of vocabulary was hard to get into sometimes. It did deal with some important themes that needed elaboration: consent, grief and emotional abuse. Consent was handled rather heavy, but it was necessary. The emotional abuse was simply ‘told’. I think I would have liked to see some effects to be dealt with, like hesitancy before starting a flirtation. Daniel was a perfect example to show grief. He did not restrain from showing tears, or remembering his father.

“It’s just not that hard, you know? She doesn’t have to say no for it to be a yes.”

It was clear this was a book about and for millennials. Not knowing how to approach someone without being a creep? Social media stalking? Feeling as if you need to live up to society’s expectations? Seriously, this felt like a tribute to it. 3 stars. I won’t reread it, but that certainly doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. Again, I still think I’m just being judgmental about every book that doesn’t compare to ACOTAR. Blame Sarah J. Maas.

“Our Stop” is a contemporary romance that makes you keep reading from the beginning until the last word. It is written through both main characters’ vision, Nadia and Daniel, so you can enjoy twice this love story. The setting in London’s underground is a great idea, thanks to that my boring commute has turned into an entertaining adventure looking for my own Daniel. Although to be honest, I think Daniel is so perfect guy that I don't guess he could be real.

I would like to highlight the beautiful cover designed by Cherie Chapman, it is a great job that caught my eyes at first sight and that was the reason why I wanted to read this book.

Our Stop by Jaura Jane Williams is a totally recomendable read, don’t hesitate and read it right now.

#happyreading

Thoroughly enjoyed this love match made - on the London underground! I have often sat on a tube train & wondered if love ever does flourish between chance meetings, well this tale lets you know it can happen.

Despite a lot of potential (and I really liked the idea/concept), this was a SLOW read for me. It felt very “stream of consciousness-y” to me with lots of run-on sentences. I wasn't sure if that was an attempt to be "amusing" as this was billed as a romcom or if it was just the author's writing style. At some level, this felt like a conglomeration of various articles from a woman’s magazine – which, given the author’s background as a writer for (wait for it) women's magazines, made sense. It also felt a bit preachy to me. (re: Brexit, Tories and feminism). It’s absolutely fine to espouse opinions (and some expressed were very valid) but this just seemed overly heavy handed/ repetitive given the type of book this was (a romcom). The story did pick up once Nadia and Daniel finally met, but ultimately, I felt this could have been half as long.

*Advance copy provided by NetGalley. All opinions are my own.*

This was a cute, light-hearted rom-com that I enjoyed. It was a refreshing break from my normal thrilling reads. It was definitely a little too slow to start for me, but I really appreciated the great character development.

3.5/5 Stars