I so wanted to love this book as much as I loved Red, White and Royal Blue. There were parts when I thought I was going to, but it didn't live up to is. I thought the story moved too slowly and the main character felt quite flat to me. Could be I just was not in the mood to read this, but I felt it was lacking some character development and needed some editing.

Casey McQuiston's latest, One Last Stop, is a fantasy romance. The story revolves around August, a young student who has moved to New York to finish her degree. August falls in love with someone she meets on the subway and soon discovers it is up to her to help this person move on with her life. The story is sweet and the characters are sympathetic. There is some queer history thrown in to show how far we've come and how far we have to go. The magical element of the story was a bit difficult to buy into, but it all came together rather tidily in the end. As with the author's previous book, Red, White and Royal Blue, the supporting characters are charming and funny and could easily be main characters in their own stories. Great for contemporary romance fans who don't mind a bit of fantasy.

ONE LAST STOP is a love letter to the LGBTQIA+ community, seamlessly weaving in historical moments into this romance with the most loving and quirky found family. McQuiston's writing is incredibly smart in this follow-up to her dazzling debut and builds this world that makes you curious and plausibly consider how heroine August is going to save Jane, the woman out of time.

I was so excited to learn that Casey McQuiston of red white and royally blue was releasing a new book! However, I feel like this one missed the mark. Part sci-fi, part romance, young adult love and lust. The premise was so unrealistic and convoluted it was really hard to get past and read further into the love story.

We already knew this after Red, White & Royal Blue but there's no doubt that Casey McQuiston is an extremely talented writer. This book was an absolute joy from start to finish, even when it was making me cry. It was a really unique story that was very well told with all the cute quirks and witty dialogue I have come to expect, delivered in this fresh and just all around lovely package. Loved it.

It's much too early for me to have read this book when I have a (virtual) pile of ARCs approaching their release dates that I should be reading. But I was so enamored by Red, White & Royal Blue—I've recommended it countless times since it's release—that I couldn't wait once my ARC for One Last Stop was approved. I should be sorry, but I'm really not at all.

Most authors fail when it comes to time travel. Especially time travel in the midst of a world that is wholeheartedly normal otherwise. It's a testiment to Casey McQuiston's talent that this book feels so grounded. Beyond that it's heart-wrenching, hilarious, and so delightfully queer.

After reading this book, I feel like I truly know all the characters. Not just August and Jane. but their found family that protected and supported their love despite the impossible odds. I was just as invested in Wes and Isaiah as I was with August and Jane and that's what makes this book so special. Sure, NYC isn't a fictional place, but it can be hard to make it feel real when it's so all encompassing and teeming with life, but McQuiston narrowed the focus to ensure you cared about every subway stop and seemingly random encounter, even when August wasn't so sure yet. This book is like a ride on the Q - moments of dark and light, but at the end of the trip, you emerge from the train to feel the joy, heartache, and impossibility of life all around you. Hopefully the trip ends with a drag show too.

Absolutely fucking incredible. I laughed. I cried. I saw myself in a way that no book has ever shown. Casey McQuiston does it again with One Last Stop and I can’t wait to press this book into so many customers hands and tell them how good this book is. Not everyone can follow up their debut novel with something incredible, but McQuiston truly hit it out of the park.

It's always hard to follow up a breakout hit, but Casey McQuiston definitely manages the feat with 'One Last Stop.' All the elements you loved in 'Red White & Royal Blue' are present and accounted for: a diverse and neatly drawn supporting cast, side plots you only notice on the second go-round, lots of longing, even more wit, and a healthy sense of balance between the angst and the humor. The biggest difference this time is that, rather than a (deeply comforting) alternate-but-realistic universe for the setting, there's an element of magical realism here: the premise centers on the logic-defying fact that protagonist August's new subway crush, Jane, is actually from the '70s and thrust out of time.

It would be easy for the "magic" element to overtake the rom-com, but McQuiston has the perfectly wry, light touch - it's just a fact of the story, an obstacle to be overcome or a mystery to solve, not a big, complicated mythology. She excels at creating characters who are messy and damaged and also incredibly charming and heartfelt; you feel deeply for August and Jane's past hurts while also rooting for their sparkling, sexy romance to take flight. It does take a few chapters for the book to really get off the ground, but once it does, it's impossible to put down.

This book has such beautiful wording that I fell in love with a city I have never been to. This is not just a love story between two characters that get to grow and experience a part of life together, but a love story about a city and the people that becoming your family.

I laughed out loud, cried a little bit, felt my heart plummet and then soar, and found a world filled with people that I would like to call my own.

This story, these girls, that city will forever hold a piece of my heart now, and I am more than happy to see it go.

As soon as this book is published, I hope every single person goes out and buys it to discover and live and imagine that wonderful world of New York from August’s point of view and craft it into their own.

McQuiston’s newest book tells the love story of August, recently arrived from New Orleans, and Jane, recently arrived from 1977 and stuck on the Q train. The story also features two subplots involving August’s missing uncle and the closing of a beloved Brooklyn pancake establishment, as well as a diverse set of characters. The time travel aspect was a fun twist in a romance novel and readers will appreciate McQuiston’s positive depiction of different genders and sexualities.
I came to this book after loving McQuiston’s first despite not generally liking romance novels. Unfortunately, my usual taste held true here. I got bored in the middle of the novel and I wasn’t really invested in the story. I also found the side characters a bit one-dimensional, and didn’t love the way everything was wrapped up so neatly together—but that is the whole point of romance novels, so that’s clearly a me problem. Fans of romance novels will love this book.

One Last Stop came to me at the perfect time. iIm so grateful to DJ DeSmyter with St. Martin's Press for providing me with an ARC!

I haven't stayed up late at night to finish a book since I read Harrow the Ninth, which says a lot about how much I adored this book. August and Jane are incredible, dynamic, and heartwarming characters that are easy to understand and connect to while remaining complex. One Last Stop made me smile, laugh, and tear up; it's a story that is full of love and life that cycles through layers of queer history and modernity. I can't really explain how happy this book made me or how perfect its arrival in my life was, but I can't wait to reread it 100 more times for years to come whenever I need a little boost of joy in my life. Everyone needs to read this book!!!!

I just absolutely loved everything about this book. I will even read her grocery list if she publishes it.
This is a time-slip romantic comedy, that brings me back to the first serious crush feelings, and out on your own vibes. There's friendship, love, pancakes and coffee. I can't wait to read this over and over.

Casey McQuiston has an absolute gift of writing the most endearing characters of all time. Even though I'm a 40 something straight suburban mom , her words take me back to the uncertainty and magic of my early 20s.

The cast of characters in this book is just wonderful. Every letter and color under the rainbow are covered and it's a diverse and magical group.

Snappy, clever dialogue and a time travel aspect I was not imagining at all made this a clever, creative, quick read.

4 stars.

Have you ever read a book that feels like home? After McQuiston’s phenomenal and ground-breaking RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE, my expectations for their sophomore novel were HIGH. First and foremost, I want to say that this book did NOT disappoint.

ONE LAST STOP is a rom-com for everyone, but I saw myself within these pages. As a fat queer girl in my early 20s, this book struck deep.

This story is the perfect queer rom-com. I loved our heroine August dearly- she was relatable, honest, and proudly bisexual. Though pricklier than McQuiston’s previous leads, August come alive on the page as she navigated a new city, the loneliness of young adulthood, first love, and solving mysteries.

Jane, our love interest, was the perfect knight in shining armor turned 1970s lesbian in a leather jacket. The relationship made this a standout romance: from the slow-burn build-up all the way to the HEA. I will say, this was a bit steamier than RWRB and I was here for it. Thank you, Casey, for showing us that queer people deserve happy endings too.

But most notably, this book showcases the sheer joy of what it means to be in the queer community. It’s a love letter to found family, belonging, and home. The ensemble cast is diverse, and absolutely phenomenal. I laughed out loud, I cried multiple times - I truly couldn’t get enough of this team of misfits.

Casey’s writing remains creative and funny, packed with pop culture reference and three-dimensional characters. I cannot wait to reread this book multiple times and be able to quote it - I have a feeling I will love it more every time.

ONE LAST STOP is a new favorite of mine. The world is better because books like this exist: stories that make us feel a little lighter and a lot more loved.

I think everyone is waiting to read this book and I still cannot BELIEVE that I got access to an ARC somehow? Shout-out to friends who lend you things. Anyway, this book THIS BOOK is a FEAT! It's a challenge to top such a book as RWRB (I've read that one 9 times...it's fine) but OLS is MAGNIFICENT! I read half of this book while I was working the polls on election day (and it did wonders for my spirits), and it was such an incredible read to accompany me on such a scary day.

One Last Stop is not RWRB. If that's why you're picking it up, because you want a repeat of last time, you probably will be disappointed. Because authors don't write the same book twice. But the things I got out of this book...It focuses a lot on found family and grief and finding yourself when you feel like you're lost. It's very poignant for your mid-twenties (since I am in fact 25 right now) and I felt seen in ways I haven't felt in a long time. Casey has an incredible talent for creating these characters that draw out the most intricate parts of me, that even if I can't relate to all of them fully, I can relate to everyone a little bit. And I thought the characters were truly the strongest part of this book (aside from the prose and the setting like DAMN BRO). Every person on the page was so real and it honestly felt like I was in New York - which I've been trying to feel since the last time I was there before this pandemic happened.

I don't know if anything will ever touch my heart and soul the way RWRB did, but I think it's such a disservice to this and any of Casey's future books to continue to compare the two. They are different. They have some similarities, but at the end of the day Jane and August are not meant to be a second version of Alex and Henry. Niko and Myla and Wes and Annie aren't supposed to be the next Super Six - they're all just...their own things. And I was in awe of this new group of people. They are feisty and overly dramatic and fun and passionate and diverse and kind and honestly? It felt like I was reading a book about me and my friends. Which is the best compliment I can give anyone.

God I wish I was at a charity drag show right now.

Anyway, Casey McQuiston continues to prove that they are a MASTER at their craft and I will be thinking about this book probably every day until it releases and I can read it again.

A great story about figuring out where you fit and finding a home. A super fun cast of side characters really flesh out the world. I both liked and was frustrated by the fact she was stuck on the train. I think I wanted to see more out of time "what is this" moments. Both very likable characters but with enough flaws to make them believable.

This book felt like a love letter to every queer person of past and present. The setting was perfect and felt like it was wrapping itself around me as I read, which is usually not a feeling I have reading. I compulsively read this book in less than 24 hours (while attending an occupational therapy grad school program! that's how you KNOW it's good), eager for just a little more. I would recommend 1000x times over.

What a great book. I just love these type of stories where loves defies space and time. I never felt like I had a true connection to Jane as the story was told from August’s POV but it didn’t detract from the story. The characters were fun and I just loved how the roommates welcomed accepted August unconditionally and immediately.

4.5 Stars. I will be honest, I went into this book with extremely high expectations because RWRB is one of the best books I have ever read. Due to that, I could not go all the way to 5 stars, but I still really loved this book. Casey truly has a magical way with words, the way she uses them to just punch you in the heart and make you feel. It's truly something special. The way that she expresses love and desire and coming into oneself, it just makes you feel understood. August and Jane are just dreamy and swoony and everything else that is good in the world. Every character in this book is beyond lovable and the love just felt instant. Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC.

First of all, I absolutely adored Red, White, and Royal Blue, and I couldn't wait to see what else Casey McQuiston had up her sleeve. One Last Stop did not disappoint. I loved all of the diverse, interesting characters, the paranormal aspect, and the romance between August and June. The author also delved into queer history, which I think is so important and not explored nearly enough in novels about LGBTQ+ people. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an escape from these stressful times.