SUCH. AN. AMAZING. BOOK! I absolutely loved this beautiful love story. It's a new favorite, and I can't wait for its release so more people can read it! The characters, the Qtrain, the romance - everything was such perfection and I'm so thankful to get this early read of this beautiful book.

What a FANTASTIC book. Character development is absolutely wonderful. I wanted to be in the apartment with them all. I would have loved to see Jane reunite with Augie somehow, but I think that's just because I wanted the story to go on and on. 5 stars, may read again!

I think I was expecting something more like Red, White, and Royal Blue when I requested this book. Other than both being LGBT+ romances, they are nothing alike! August is in a sort of limbo. She keeps changing colleges and changing majors and changing cities while trying to figure out who she is. She ends up in New York. On the subway one day on her way to class, she meets Jane, a hot girl in a leather jacket. August keeps seeing Jane on the subway. No matter what train she gets on, Jane is always there. Turns out if August is stuck in some sort of figurative limbo, Jane is stuck in literal limbo. She's been on the subway since the 1970s, not aging, not remembering how she got there, and she literally can't get off the train.

Can August find a way to get Jane unstuck from the subway and back to her own time? Does she even want to?

The romance is sweet, and there are moments when you feel punched in the gut because their situation seems so impossible. I thoroughly enjoyed this book,

AHHHHHHHHHHH ONCE AGAIN I AM CONFLICTED!
First of all, as a reader, I CANNOT handle books that ~feel~ long. I don't care if it's 800 pages, I don't even care if it isn't fast-paced. But I need to be connected to the plot or the characters in some way or else why am I even reading this.

I honestly had to push through this book(just like Red, White and Royal Blue).
If this book hadn't been so hyped up I would have DNF, but I was hoping that the author would shock me at the end.

Yep, didn't happen. So all that is left is a reader that feels like they wasted time on a book who's only good quality is its cover.

Alsoooooooooooo I hated August. I was okay with Jane until the ending and then NOPE.

I was a MASSIVE fan of Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and I was so excited for this book to come out. It is a great follow up to her debut and expands on the ideas of found families and searching for what you need and want out of life.

August is trying to leave her past behind. She's new to NYC and on her third college and she's looking for something to believe in. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn’t think 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 all that special. Then she meets Jane. After a few chance encounters on her subway commute August realizes there is a mystery in front of her and she's determined to solve it.

Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.

WHY CAN'T I GIVE BOOKS 10 STARS?? Because this one definitely needs way more stars than 5. Whew. What a fantastic, heart-warming, steamy, piece of brilliance this book is. If you liked Red, White, and Royal Blue (and, let's be honest, everyone did), you MUST read this one as soon as you can.

I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this book once I realized it has some sci-fi elements to it (ones that I rarely enjoy) but I really loved this book. It made me laugh out loud; it made me cry, and it warmed my heart in a big way. The found family in this novel is beyond compare and the fully queer and fantastic cast of characters gave me such cozy warm accepting vibes. I adored each character, the way they had one another's backs, and the raw realness of being young and queer and also the sheer audacity of loving yourself just as you are. It's a fantastic letter to the queer community of the past and the appreciation and respect given to them for all their hard work to pave a path for queer kids today.

In true Casey form the sex scenes are fire, the friendships and banter are top-notch, and the message is clear and threaded throughout the entire novel. It's a masterpiece and if you loved their other work, you're going to adore this one. I can't wait for everyone to get their hands on this book.

Cute, fun, and quirky. Lived the quirky characters.
Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC.

Oh my goodness. Somehow this is better than Casey McQuiston's debut.

Read in the overarching context of 2020, One Last Stop feels spot on. Perhaps we are all stuck in suspended animation on the Q, unable to remember who we are or where we've been. Maybe we are all waiting on love to pull us back into ourselves.

All of the characters were three-dimensional, believe-able, authentic. I adore the love story that unfolded. The wonderful twists and turns at the end, pulling my heartstrings. There were many laughs, and a full-on sob session.

This book is perfectly New York, perfectly everything. I can't wait to buy this for everyone I know.

Oh sweet spilled coffee- I loved ONE LAST STOP

What I love about Casey McQuiston is her ability to write characters that feel alive and part of the world. Her stories make me laugh out loud one moment and sigh the next.

It's tender, funny, genuine and thoughtful. It's sexy, magical and romantic. It's glitter, drag queens, subway cars, unsolved mysteries and LOVE. All the elements of love: platonic love, romantic love, love for a found-family, love for NYC and love for self. .

The story felt absolutely grounded yet completely lofty and unexplainable. The characters were well formed yet fluid with "chefs kiss" representation: queer, bi, trans, BIPOC and neurodiverse.

While I feel hard for the lead couple: August and Jane, I was equally smitten with the cast of our queer found-family. I kept wishing I could smoosh myself into a bench at Billy's 24 Hr. Pancake Diner to be part of the crew.

𝐎𝗪𝐍 𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒: ⁣
I try to link up #ownvoices reviews when I find them. I look forward to reading reviews from #ownvoices perspectives. When they start pouring in I'll share to stories.

This was just the story I needed to read in 2020. Granted it doesn't come out for a few months more I am in love with how amazing it was.

August has decided to move to a new city to continue going to school. Upon arriving in NYC she goes to see about a room in an apartment and meets Nikko a psychic who loves her instantly. She meets the other roommates Myla (Nikkos GF) and Wes. She goes about her day going to school and going to her new job as a waitress settling into the new life she has. But then she meets Jane on the subway and instantly has a crush on this impossible girl. As she gets to know Jane better she starts to realize things about her are a little weird. Her outfit never changes, she uses a tape player, she doesn't have a cellphone and doesn't get certain pop culture references. After finding a photo of her from the 70's she realizes that she hasn't aged a day and might actually be stuck from the 1970's.

This is a gorgeous found family story with speculative fiction thrown in the mix. I loved the seamless integration of time travel. It is a great read and is everything I expected from McQuinston. I may even say I liked it more than <i> Red, White and Royal Blue </i>

August is implied to be plus sized and is bisexual. August isn't perfect which is something I like in a main character. But she does have some trauma that isn't fully explored, it is mentioned but it isn't really shown how she worked through it. Just a few chapters later she is talking to her mom and has seemingly forgiven her for her odd upbringing.

Jane is Chinese American and gay. She is displaced from the 1970's, and was an advocate for gay rights in her time. Stuck on the subway she stands up for others on the subway and sprinkled throughout history is her being a good person and helping whoever she can. (Even though she stole a scarf)

The rest of the cast of characters are a range of diversity. These include a jewish gay character, a drag queen, a trans latino character and an asian queer character (based on dating history). I love the amount of diversity and the fact that the love interest was diverse as well. But having all these characters in the background to a white cis character although appreciated opens up the conversation about why August wasn't as diverse as everyone else.

Thank you NetGalley for reaching out to me about this book.
After reading RW&RB by this author, I knew I had to pick up anything and everything they wrote next. City lesbians in a Kate and Leopoldo retelling? Sign me up! I was absolutely obsessed with this book. Casey has such a way with writing characters, I felt like I was actually apart of August’s friend group as I was reading. I wanted to live in this book. I can’t wait until it comes out (no pun intended) so that more people can enjoy this masterpiece. I will definitely be buying myself a physical copy and reading it again this Summer.

4.5 Stars

CWs: Graphic depictions of sex, some instances to homophobia and racism, family estrangement, and allusions to grief and familial loss.

"There aren't perfect moments in life, not really, not when shit has gotten as weird as it can get and you're broke in a mean city and the things that hurt feel so big. But there's the wind flying and the weight of months and a girl hanging out an emergency exit, train roaring all around, tunnel lights flashing, and it feels perfect. It feels insane and impossible and perfect."

Once again, Casey McQuiston has made me feel every single one of my feelings, and I am GRATEFUL.

"One Last Stop" is a joyous, effervescent, incredibly smart, incredibly millennial romantic-comedy. The pitch was "Kate & Leopold" meets quirky queer rom-com, and it is exactly that, but also SO MUCH MORE. Not only is there such an amazing cast of queer characters, phenomenal banter and group dynamics, and a sapphic romance absolutely brimming with yearning and desire, but there's also really strong driving elements of mystery and sci-fi. You get to see August making her way in New York, building up her friend group, and falling in love with this mysterious girl on the subway—and figuring out who Jane really is, where she comes from, and how her existence is even possible is a really central question explored throughout the book.

So not only do you get this delightful slow burn love story between two useless sapphics, but you really get invested in figuring out the mystery and impossibility that is Jane Su, and every single piece of new information irrevocably colors the buddy relationship between August and Jane. Their dynamic is constantly shifting throughout the book, and that's part of what makes it such an addictive story to read.

It's also a deeply emotional story. It really taps into that experience of being unmoored, unsure, and feeling impossibly small in an ever-expanding world. August is a struggling millennial in every possible sense. She works in food service, she always seems to be a dollar away from her savings account quitting on her altogether, she is finishing college but has no idea what life outside of school looks like (or can look like), and she can only see herself as a drowning, unlovable mess. Her life is an unpredictably freeform disaster where everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Not only that, but she is incredibly lonely, and the fact that everyone else seems to know exactly what they should do and who they should be only makes her feel even more lonely.

And that parallels so nicely with what's happening to Jane, a young queer activist perpetually and impossibly stranded on the Q day after day, being surrounded by people and touching so many people's lives but ultimately remaining faceless to so many—just another body on the daily commute. I think the story is very much about these two lonely people recognizing each other in their loneliness and truly seeing the other person for not only who they are but everything they could be. It's the kind of relationship where the more the characters get to know each other, the more they give to each other, the more real they become, not only to the outside world but to themselves. It's about the kind of love that makes you recognize yourself and brings the world around you into even sharper focus.

When all is said and done, it's a beautiful, hilarious, thoughtful love story that's positively overflowing with life and love (and food). It's about learning to let go, to accept that the things that might hurt you are the things most worth fighting for, and that just because something is impossible doesn't mean it's hopeless. It's about how we are all worthy and deserving of incredible love even when our lives are falling apart or when it seems like nothing will ever make sense again. It's a celebration of the people who see you and sustain you and accept you for exactly who you are.

Honestly, I could go on and on and on, but this was just fantastic. It's a blindingly passionate love letter to New York, to friendship, to queerness, to self-discovery, and to magic that's just impossible enough to be possible. Even though there were some threads of backstory I wanted to see developed a little bit more, I absolutely loved this book. It's a masterful and worthy follow-up to "Red, White & Royal Blue" while being entirely different and joyful in its own way. The early praise is more than earned. You will not want to miss this one.

McQuiston's second novel is a fantastical romance. It's an interesting mashup of movies like "Sliding Doors," "Kate & Leopold," and "Serendipity." Fans of these movies will be intrigued, especially if you appreciate seeing a lesbian couple at the center. Unless you're a fan of the genre, it might be a bit of a hard sell. McQuiston is good at setting up the players and MacGuffin of the story, so we can follow what takes place. Yet, the pace does get slow at times, it's a great conceit looking for a plot.

Fans of her wonderful debut novel, 2019's "Red, White, and Royal Blue" will be surprised at how different the two works are. It's clear McQuiston isn't interested in repeating herself. I look forward to seeing where she goes next.

I am so grateful I was able to read this gem before it’s May pub date because it was BEAUTIFUL. If you read Red, White, and Royal Blue, you’re very much aware of Casey McQuiston’s writing. It’s sharp, witty, humorous, and completely tugs at your heartstrings. McQuiston’s follow up novel is every bit as wonderful as you’re imagining it will be. I laughed. I cried. I desperately miss these characters.

August, a lonely perpetual student, moves to New York with hardly a plan. When taking the Q, there she meets Jane and instantly falls in love. But like, very awkwardly because Jane is way cool and August is well, not. Or at least doesn’t think she is. What starts as a friendship, quickly escalates as it turns out Jane is stuck on the Q - an apparition? A ghost? A time traveler? It’s all a bit weird, but August plans to help her figure out her story.

This book made me want to be 23 and live in a tiny ass NYC apartment with some quirky and completely lovable characters. I want my next door neighbor to be a fabulous drag queen, and I want to work at a house of pancakes. PREORDER THIS NOW.

If you haven't read Casey McQuiston's first book, Red, White & Royal Blue do it. Right now!

I was afraid that her second book, One Last Stop, wouldn't have that same love and soul. It was a needless fear because this book is nothing but love and soul.

August is 23, socially awkward, unsure what to do with her life other than not help her mom continue to look for August's uncle who went missing before August was born. She's moved to NYC to finish college and maybe figure out her life.

On the subway, on her way to class, a spilled coffee leads to a chance encounter that totally upends August's life.

One Last Stop is about found family and love in all its shapes, sizes and colors. It's charming, heart-warming, sexy, glittery, magical and utterly satisfying. LGBTQ rep, drag queen fabulosity, time travel, psychic realness, and dogged determination blend into the most satisfying spiciness.

All of the characters are so fully realized that I feel like I know actual people. They're quirky and unusual but it never felt forced or fake.

The author skillfully shows what being queer was like in the 70s and how things have changed but it never felt like a "back in my day" lecture or a history lesson.

Even the more fantastical parts of the story felt thoroughly thought out and plausible.

There's a warm and tender tone to the writing, even when the characters are dealing with hard things like having their heart broken. You can tell the author cares what happens to them which spills over to the reader caring. I never felt emotionally manipulated which can happen in books with Major Feels.

The plot had many strands but they're so skillfully written that I was never confused. No cliffhangers or unresolved issues which yay.

This book was pure delight. Not in a gross, sappy way but in a real way. There's heartache and I cried at times but everything was perfectly written. I want more stars so I can give them all to One Last Stop.

It's weird and wild and wonderfully entertaining.
Parts felt a little long, especially the last chapter (of which most I think is unnecessary), but overall, I think it's better than her previous book.

Amazing! I was really concerned One Last Stop wouldn’t live up to Red, White & Royally Blue, but it was even better. This one was so fun, and certain portions were so steamy! Also, as an Chinese girl from California, I loved to see asians represented as LGBTQ. And it was refreshing to see that no all the parents were judgy, so embraced their children’s choices. Casey McQuiston just keeps getting better with each book, and I can’t wait to read her next novel!

August is a woman without direction, moving to New York City to get lost in it, hoping to find herself as a result. She finds herself living with a merry band of queer 'misfits' as the deal was too good to turn down, enrolled in local college, and with a job waiting tables at a local diner though she's never waited a table a day in her life. On the subway one day, she meets and develops a crush on a woman named Jane, and she soon realizes Jane is not all she appears to be. A romance lost in time, a diner running on its very last legs, and a woman constantly searching for an identity to call her own, One Last Stop is a big-hearted love letter to the ideas of chosen family and the power of the village that is the queer community in the relentlessness that is NYC.

All of this being said, once the cards were being overturned, I do wish that August's journey and eventual discovery of who she believes she is hadn't been rooted so strongly in Jane/Biyu and her relationship there. There was a strong chance to have fun with the 'manic pixie dream girl' idea we all love so much and in that, it mostly set out what may have been intended as large swaths of the book as August using her background in private investigations (don't worry - this is a detail that also plays as a card to turn as the story folds in on itself in a somewhat contrived manner) to actually deconstruct who and what Jane is. But in spending so much time here and without really giving Jane an existence or identity outside of August, I had a difficult time truly caring by the reveal at the end. Myla, Wes, Niko, Isaiah, Lucie, and more - there's a rich tapestry of characters I longed to have spent more time with instead of only learning about them more as it was convenient and necessary for August's story, a story that left me merely lukewarm by the end.

McQuiston's intent is pure and technical skill is on display in full force here - you feel each of these emotions every step of the way, but in focusing the narrative on the parts that she has and putting August at the center of this entire world, there's a missed opportunity here in not refocusing the story on other characters and really putting the beauty of queer love on full display.

i'm going to have to reread to really piece together my thoughts - but I really enjoyed Casey McQuiston's second book - August was charming, and New York City was fun, and the whole apartment gang was a vibe.

but ahem, don't shoot me, i missed the political urgency of RW&RB - so I'm going to have to be in spring happy headspace to read this and very distanced from politics, cause that's why I love RW&RB - no matter how bad a day, I can escape into Alex's life. I don't quite feel *that* way about OLS yet, but maybe one day?