I’m crying the happiest of tears, what a book. This is the sapphic romcom time slip story I never knew I needed this much.

ONE LAST STOP is a book I want to live in, that I want to wrap myself up in. The queer found family is everything and authentic. The bi rep is spot on, the song references have prompted me to make a Spotify playlist in between reading sessions so I can listen and dream even more about this book. I can’t wait for this book to be out in the world, and I’m especially excited for the world to fall in love with August & Jane as much as I have.

Thank you to St Martin’s and NetGalley for the digital ARC.

“there’s a kindness she doesn’t understand and evidence of things she convinced herself weren’t real. and worst of all, for the first time since she was a kid, she wants to trust in something.”

the only way i know how to start this is by talking about red, white & royal blue. i know red white & royal blue very intimately, with a lot of it committed to memory. i would know casey mcquiston’s words anywhere.

from the first few pages of one last stop, i knew this familiar voice: singing a new song, spinning a new tale. it felt like coming home, even though i've never been here before.

there's a risk that comes with anticipating reads. when you have expectations and hopes. what if it doesn't live up. what if you hate it. what if you let yourself down?

for me especially, loving red white & royal blue so much. for that book to be my favorite book of all time. for that book and the characters in it meaning so much to me to the point where i say it changed my life.

reading one last stop left me with an overwhelming sense of joy and relief. this book i have been waiting to read for so long met every expectation and soared above it.

one last stop is the story of august–a 23 year old who has just moved into a new york city apartment with people she's just met, leaving behind the mystery her mom is chasing. she doesn't believe in magic. but then she meets jane on the subway–an impossible girl who seems to have been displaced from the 70's. so maybe there is magic after all.

in the span of one novel, casey mcquiston has crafted the most incredible cast of characters. while august and jane are our two leads, they are framed with a diverse group of friends. sometimes i read books and by the end i still feel like i don't even know the love interest or the narrator. here, i felt a connection to every character. and i loved all of them so much. i was invested in every background plot. i could read about them forever.

casey dedicates this book to queer communities past, present, and future. this book is definitely a celebration of that. it is an ode to the queer folks who came before us. it's about how they fought for everything we have now. how we continue to fight for the kids who will come after us. it's about being a twenty something who doesn't have it together, but living with your friends that you love like family. about how you could all be so different, but you share your queerness and you build your community around that. because sometimes that's the thing the world wants to take away and there is strength in standing against the world with those you love.

this book is about feeling. feeling magic, feeling love, feeling friendship. allowing yourself to feel sadness because it deserves to be felt. you learn to understand why you close yourself off, and you become brave enough to let others in. you realize the only reason why the walls are up is because you put them there.

this book is about home. about new people and new places becoming home. about your home being a diner that needs to be saved, an apartment where the floor isn't level, a train where every time you get on you see the one person who matters most. about how one of the biggest, wildest cities in the world becomes home after years of searching for the place you belong.

this book is so extraordinary. it's gonna stay with me for a long time. i'm so glad it exists. i'm so excited for the world to read it. i'm trying to hold myself back from rereading it right this moment. I want to wait until i have the finished copy in june.

Loved the book and Loved the characters! The relationships between the roommates were amazing - the Kate and Leopold story line did not really do it for me, but as a study in characters this was perfect!

I love all the characters in this book. I didn't read the whole synopsis before starting. I like everything about the book except the whole time difference thing. I wasn't a fan of that and tried to wrap my head around it. I know it is the focal point of the book but i had powered thru it. I loved red, white and royal blue and was hoping it that same direction ish. Still good :)

Thanks NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book and while I was so excited to recieve an ARC of it, I also was nervous to begin. You see, Red, White and Royal Blue was by far one of the best books I've ever read. In fact, since initially reading it in Fall 2019, I've listened to it at least 4 additional times because I love it so much. The writing is beautiful and captivating and I feel myself floating away into Alex and Henry's world every time I listen.

So when I opened One Last Stop, I was immediately reminded of the beauty that is McQuiston's writing. It is absolutely a joy to read and her details are heartfelt. I am pretty sure I would read anything she wrote. The problem I had is that I never really connected with August and Jane. I can't tell you specifically why or what about it I didn't connect with but I couldn't. I just didn't feel the love and it made it a struggle. I did love the complexity of the characters and the diversity of all involved-- I think the problem was that there was nobody I really could "connect" with and it made me struggle. Without spoiling the book, i wish it had ended at about 89%. I think I would have been more satisfied with the ending there then I was with the actual ending.

One of the most brilliant parts of her writing is her writing of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. The way she identifies that they are transgender is simple and non- dramatic, which I think makes it more powerful. These characters are people and whether they are transgender or not is not as important as who they are--- which i think is brilliant.

Overall, I would definitely recommend someone checking this book out, but meanwhile I might be re-reading Red, White and Royal Blue for the 5th time...

Overall, I think its a beautiful book

This delightful new-adult story will always have a special place in my heart because Casey McQuiston made me fall in love with her entertaining writing style and her vivid descriptions of New York City in all of its quirky and messy glory. I’m a huge fan of stories that feature a variety of characters from the LGBTQIA community and I must say that I was living my best life when I tagged along with August, Niko, Myla, Wes and Annie while they were throwing awesome parties and doing everything in their power to help Jane. Without a doubt, this novel is definitely a literary treat because this author has skillfully blended a budding romance, witty banter and an unbelievable time-slip with a dash of magic thrown in for good measure. Plus, I think this book cover is super cute and I can’t stop smiling every time I look at it!

Wow! Casey McQuiston's second novel is nothing like I expected but was delightful and wonderful. Two 20-something girls meet on the NYC subway, and sparks fly. As protagonist August navigates being an adult on her own, she realizes she actually has a lot of people who love her. This is a delightful story of people choosing their own family and making their way in the world, and has a surprising space-time element. Like McQuiston's first book, One Last Stop will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy and in your feelings in the best way.

Completely swoon worthy queer romance! It's fun with a little bit of a sci-fi twist. I liked how much Casey explored the history of the queer community without it feeling like a lesson. Very much enjoyed!

This was such fun! As with Red, White & Royal Blue, McQuiston delivers a charming, funny, and steamy queer romcom with endearing mains and side characters alike, only this time there are sapphics and sci-fi in the mix. This book packs so much love, queer history, and disaster bi energy into its >400 pages. There's an absolute wealth of thoughtful and varied representation in the characters, including a vocally bisexual protagonist, which my heart will never get enough of.

August is a somewhat prickly lead. She's the largely friendless, restless, minimalist daughter of a single mother hellbent on solving the mystery of her own brother's disappearance nearly fifty years ago. August has grown up isolated from her peers and locked into a walking true crime story. At twenty-three, she's spent the last few years bouncing from city to city, university to university, trying to carve out a life for herself that doesn't revolve around the search for her Uncle Augie.

When she arrives in Brooklyn, August quickly falls in with lovable new roommates, continues working on her degree, and lands a job at a breakfast place, a local institution. Enter Jane, the hot butch girl August meets on the subway, crushes hard on, and incidentally seems to have the exact same commute as her. As they get to know each other better, August's investigative upbringing leads her to think things aren't quite as they seem with Jane and with the help of her roommates, begins to get to the bottom of things.

I will say that there's quite a lot of PDA (not my thing), of-the-moment slang and turns of phrase that might make this hard to read in even a few years, and enough references to make your head spin (including two throwaway mentions of Harry Potter that I thought were in poor taste for a queer book released post-2020), but on the whole McQuiston's charming character work, believable dialogue, emotion and humour alike really shine through and make this book a very solid four star read for me.

TW: recounted homophobic violence, mention of racism and antisemitism, off page death

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing this advance copy

I read and loved RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE, and immediately dove into my copy of ONE LAST STOP, which did not disappoint. Author Casey McQuiston knows how to deliver a fun, trauma-free, gay romance. Involving a Groundhog Day-like time loop on the subway, I loved the supernatural elements of this novel. McQuiston deftly walks the line between over-the-top fantasy and reality to create a really satisfying mystery-inside-a-romance. I'm so glad to have found this author!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the ARC.

Twenty-three-year-old August has just moved to New York to finish college and finds herself with a new life. August has a new home, new roommates, a new job, a possible new girlfriend, the mysterious Jane, who she meets on the subway. There is only one problem, the more time August spends with Jane, the more she realizes there's something different about Jane which may make it impossible for them to be together.

I wanted to like this book more than I did. McQuiston's first book was an adorable rom-com, and I was expecting her follow-up to be similar, but it didn't live up to my expectations. The premise was original, but the way the story played out felt familiar. August had the potential to be a great main character, but I never felt like I got to know her. Plus, her relationship with Jane went from attraction to love without being developed on the page. The best part of this book was the August roommates. I would happily read an entire book about Niko and Myla or Wes and Isiah. One Last Stop was entertaining and did have some fun moments, but it never lived up to my expectations set by the author's first novel.

WOW. WOW. WOW. This book has it all - queer love, magical realism, mystery, amazing wlw sex scenes, and a heist. I laughed out loud. I cried. This book was an outpouring of love for queerness, chosen family, and New York City.

I really liked the last book I read by this author, Red, White, and Royal Blue. It was a very entertaining and enjoyable read. This current book was even more entertaining.

I loved the NYC setting. Parts of the story took place on a subway and others part in a crowded Brooklyn apartment with four diverse and interesting roommates. There was August who recently moved to NYC to finish her college degree. She was overly cautious and never felt like she belonged anywhere. Niko was a psychic and also trans whose Catholic family supported him being trans but not being a psychic, and in their view, a devil worshiper. His girlfriend Myla was brilliantly creative and an intellectual. Wes came from money but was cut off and disowned when he went against his parents’ career choice to take over the family’s architecture firm. Wes was also in love with their neighbor, Isaiah, an accountant by day and drag queen Annie Depressant by night. Then there was Jane. She was the love interest of August. However, there was one major problem with Jane. She was stuck on the Q train, and has been for about 45 years.

I love how the connections were made between the past and present and how it came together so smoothly. The dialogue was witty and humorous but nicely balanced by their serious realistic conversations such as not fitting in, being disowned by family, money problems, and finding someone to love and then being brave enough to say the words.

I also loved how these characters evolved throughout the story from strangers to a tight knit group of very supportive friends who formed their own family and a place where they all belonged.

This well written rom-com was thoroughly engaging from start to finish.

An ARC was given for an honest review.

I was delighted to receive an ARC copy of "One last Stop", the newest work of Casey McQuiston after Red White & Royal Blue. The anticipation for this novel seems to be huge and the reviews are raving about it. Thank you Netgalley and the publisher St. Martin's Griffin for letting me have a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

What I liked most about the book is the cover and the concepts of inclusion, diversity, and happy mix.
Before I even think about how many stars I rate a book, I can guess myself by considering how long it takes me to read it. And this book, it felt so long and so slow, the first third goes on forever. The book was a granted wish and it felt like I had a moral obligation to finish it in order to write a review. I was also hoping the story would take a turn for the better but it didn't feel like that happen for me. A big disappointment.

This is such a fun, interesting, beautiful, unapologetically queer book! The sci-fi aspect of it was so well done that it didn't seem out of place at all. It was very X-Files meets Veronica Mars, but if everyone in the writer's room was queer. The characters are so well fleshed out and they feel like real friends you might have in your lifetime. I especially love the trope of found family, and I think it was executed flawlessly. The hesitation in the beginning by August to open up to Wes, Myla, and Niko and all of the events that carefully led to her trusting them with everything about her and her life was so enjoyable and rewarding to read. Honestly, if there's one piece of criticism I had it would be that there was a serious lack of Wes/Isaiah moments. However, I will ignore it because this book is pages full of love and acceptance. I just love reading about queer folks living happy lives, not traumatic ones.

Some other highlights for me: sex positivity, the queer history, the use of pop culture, August being bisexual (and actually saying the words), Niko being psychic, and Noodles (the dog).

August and Jane found happiness with each other. It occurred over a space of distorted time and a singular place. Casey McQuiston is so gifted in their talents that August and Jane's impossible situation and their stationary location of the subway train made me a little envious. You really root for them, despite everything. They're the impossible that was made possible and it filled me with such joy.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this digital ARC in exchange for a honest review.

5 stars

This novel is packed with fantastic surprises!

August, the m.c., comes to New York to continue her lifelong goal of living attachment-free, but for readers and every character, it's clear from the start that August's life is taking a turn for the...different. Between August's quirky but loveable roommates, her memorable coworkers, and her general lack of luck and panache, there are many opportunities for August to grow and a whole lot of folks around to watch and facilitate this development. The most essential of these characters, however, is Jane, whom August nicknames "Subway Girl" and meets on a particularly terrible and fortuitous day. August's relationship with her mother, who has been on a lifelong (at least for August's lifespan) quest to find her missing brother, is also essential to understanding some of the idiosyncrasies of August's viewpoints, baggage, and unusual skillsets.

I was a fan of McQuiston coming into this, so I got to request this arc under my most favorite circumstances: by knowing NOTHING about it other than who wrote it. Readers, if you are able to avoid specific plot points, I recommend this. While I normally struggle a bit with genre-related aspects of how this story unfolds, I could not get enough of it here.

This is a thoughtful, charming, and magical romance, and the LGBTQ+ rep is on point. But there are many more layers here than I expected. The messaging around family relationships, not playing it safe in love, and finding yourself - in so many ways - all make this one truly unforgettable. If I had to have a last stop, I wouldn't at all mind arriving at it with these characters.

Lighthearted and fun with a twist that fell a little flat for me (although, I wasn't anticipating it so maybe it threw me for a loop just as I was getting comfortable with the world McQuiston had built) The plot is original with a familiar flair in its subway/train commute, the characters are refreshing and their wants/needs/desires are relatable. It's an absorbing read and paced well!

I loved Red, White, and Royal Blue so much that I was very excited to read this. At first, I wasn't too sure about it because it didn't have the humor of the other book, but then THAT THING kicked in and I was hooked. In the end it was a dizzying, dazzling, heart hurting (in the best way) ride.

August comes to New York to try to find her spark. She's not sure what she wants to do or who she wants to be, but she knows that New York will help her figure it out. She meets a great group of queer-friendly roommates, gets a job at Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes, and she meets Jane. At first, August thinks that she and Jane just have the same schedule, as they see each other on the train everyday. The truth is more complicated: Jane is stuck on the train, and she's from the 1970s. What's a girl to do when she falls in love with someone so unavailable?

As a city girl, I love the randomness of public transport - you never know who you might run into! Seeing August and Jane fall in love in their time on the train was so heartwarming - these two are so drawn to each other despite the odds against them. But make no mistake - this is much more than a romantic comedy - it's also August's coming of age story. I loved seeing her character development and growth to become confident in her skin and her choices.

The supporting cast here is so wonderfully and unabashedly weird with great queer representation - the roommates who play rolling chair games, the drag queen neighbor, August's pancake house coworkers. I loved spending time in this magical world, and I hope you love it too! 4.5 stars.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for providing an ARC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Review posted to Goodreads: 4/11/21
Review to be posted to Instagram in advance of pub date 6/1/21

This one was really cute and fun. Not what I was expecting, after reading Red, White, and Royal Blue, but I liked it. McQuiston shows her range with this book. Where Red, White, and Royal Blue was a straight up romance, this book has mystery and a little of the supernatural/sci-fi thrown in.

Definitely recommend for anyone who likes lighthearted, fun romances - especially those with a little twist. Can't wait for McQuiston's next work!