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One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston
Book
June
2021

Review:

This was a very cute book [I changed my mind. It was extremely weird]. It wasn’t puppy love like I felt in Red, White, and Royal Blue, but it was cute, fun, and engaging. I was worried that the author would not incorporate the time travel element into her book well, but I think it went pretty well. This book had good characters, and it was funny. I thought the characters had great chemistry, and I loved the little love stories in the background. She did a great job making the characters relatable and adding diverse characters with different backgrounds. I felt like I was living in her life, and it was an excellent experience. I liked the drag references and how inclusive she was about every minority. I had a couple of problems; the romance was mostly set on a train, making it awkward and flat. She did a great job for one of the main chapters needing to stay on the train, but I’m not sure that part was necessary. How she described time travel was exciting and based on facts that I found so cool. Overall this was a great book but definitely not as good as the author’s first.

Trigger Warnings:
Drinking, light drug use (weed), semi-public sex, exploration of depression and anxiety, memory loss and cognitive issues, familial estrangement, familial death, grief, missing persons, implied PTSD, Homophobic violence and hate speech, police violence, the AIDS crisis, racism, childhood neglect, arson, and historic hate crime resulting in loss of life

Synopsis From Book:

For 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. 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. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. 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. 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. 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. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.
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