Status
Available
Publication
Griffin (2021), 432 pages
Description
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... 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. Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. "A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart." - Time Magazine, "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021" "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two… (more)
User reviews
LibraryThing member Allison_Krajewski
This book is a warm, fluffy pancake doused in thick, sweet syrup, topped with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles, the kind that make you feel instantly better when you're having a bad day.
This is my first book by Casey McQuiston, and it definitely won't be my last. I think others have described
These characters -- August and Jane; August's roommates Niko, Myla, and Wes; and all the other characters that were given loud and vibrant voices -- were everything. They were nuanced and flawed and messy and loud. The story itself was amazing. This was the first book in a while that I stayed up late into the night reading.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own.
This is my first book by Casey McQuiston, and it definitely won't be my last. I think others have described
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this book much better than me, but here we follow cynical August as she falls for carefree Jane (who may or may not be stuck on the train and displaced in time from the 1970s). McQuiston definitely leans heavy on the syrupy sweetness, but I've admittedly always had a sweet tooth.These characters -- August and Jane; August's roommates Niko, Myla, and Wes; and all the other characters that were given loud and vibrant voices -- were everything. They were nuanced and flawed and messy and loud. The story itself was amazing. This was the first book in a while that I stayed up late into the night reading.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own.
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LibraryThing member Carol420
My neighbor knew I liked and read a lot of m/m romances so she brought me this one. She has met and loves my two wonderful guys that bring me most of my m/m romance books, but she handed me this and said “Gloria, (her partner), and I thought you might like to see how the “other team batted”.
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Truly. it’s the first of “the other team type” of books that I had read and I’m still a bit on the fence...not about the subject...love is love and everyone should find it anywhere and with anyone and anyhow they chose...but the fact that the author threw so many different controversies into one book that it was hard to keep the main story in focus. It was also difficult to suppress the desire to slap some people upside the head with something very heavy. The other thing that has me “fence sitting” is the writing style itself. I thought the history of Jane and her life was fascinating. So much of the book is written in the third person. I don't usually have trouble with this perspective.... but there are so many characters that it just added another layer of difficulty. The other main character of August is simply charming in all her scatterbrain ways. Her first day of class, everything that can go wrong does so in spades... and then she meets Jane. Together they take on the city of New York...1970’s homophobes and the laws and people that say “You're not allowed do that!”. In a nutshell this is a story of found-family and soul searching and finding your place in the world. It is about acceptance and honesty and staying true to yourself. It's about redemption and love and laughter and heartbreak and all the things that make life so wonderful and complicated. I have to tell my neighbor that both “teams” have fought, and are still fighting for the same things. Show Less
LibraryThing member electrascaife
August is a 20-something college student newly transplanted from NOLA to NYC, trying to make the city feel like her home while also keeping her personal walls firmly in place. And then she spills coffee all down the front of her shirt on the way to her first class, meets the girl of her dreams on
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the subway, who gives August her scarf to cover up the stain, and falls instantly in love. What follows is one of the coolest love stories I've read in a long time, involving accidental/electrically-induced time travel, clairvoyant roommates, an accountant drag queen neighbor, and lots of pop tarts and pancakes. Like McQuiston's [Red, White, and Royal Blue], this novel is full of the cleverest kind of dialogue, which on several occasions made me laugh out in pure glee. There are also at least two mysteries unfolding in the story, with twists I couldn't see coming, and I was rooting for every single character from start to wholly-satisfying end. In short, it was fantastic and fabulous on lots of levels; Reader, it's absolutely safe to say that I am officially a McQuiston fan. Show Less
LibraryThing member Othemts
After a troubled childhood with an obsessive mother, August finds it difficult to connect with people. Things begin to change when she moves to Brooklyn to attend college and is pushed out of her comfort zone by her eccentric housemates, Myla, Niko and Wes. She also finds herself enraptured by a
This book is great fun as it uses a unique time slip story mixed with a queer romance and a story of New York's gentrification. It's particular interesting to read the contrasts of Jane's experiences in the early LGBTQ+ liberation movements of the 1970s compared to the more accepting contemporary times. There are a lot of subplots in this novel that get things a bit confused, and perhaps there's just a bit too much "deep conversation," but all is forgiven because I love the characters. McQuiston does a great job of bringing to life a community of fun, creative, and really horny young adults in the city.
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beautiful punk woman she meets on the Q train, Jane. However, finding love and happiness is challenged by three strange things about Jane: 1. she can't seem to leave the train, 2. she can't remember her past, and 3. she hasn't aged at all from a picture taken of her in 1976.This book is great fun as it uses a unique time slip story mixed with a queer romance and a story of New York's gentrification. It's particular interesting to read the contrasts of Jane's experiences in the early LGBTQ+ liberation movements of the 1970s compared to the more accepting contemporary times. There are a lot of subplots in this novel that get things a bit confused, and perhaps there's just a bit too much "deep conversation," but all is forgiven because I love the characters. McQuiston does a great job of bringing to life a community of fun, creative, and really horny young adults in the city.
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LibraryThing member Cherylk
In the beginning, it was slow listening for me. I did the audio version of this book. So slow that I was almost done with listening and this was only after a third of the way into the book. Yet, I decided to stick with the book a bit longer. So glad that I did as my feelings with towards this book
To be honest, if it was not for Jane and August's other friends, I probably would have forgotten about August. She was not the most interesting person but she did open up and start to blossom as the story progressed. Jane is so cool that she is too cool for me. I was a nerd back in the day and would have had reservations like August. It may have started out as "just research" but it ended in love.
If you are a reader who has wanted to try a LGBTQIA book, than here is your chance. This one is not in your face but sweet and charming. The case of characters are a bit quirky and people that I would want to hang out with.
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did an upward tick of excitement. To be honest, if it was not for Jane and August's other friends, I probably would have forgotten about August. She was not the most interesting person but she did open up and start to blossom as the story progressed. Jane is so cool that she is too cool for me. I was a nerd back in the day and would have had reservations like August. It may have started out as "just research" but it ended in love.
If you are a reader who has wanted to try a LGBTQIA book, than here is your chance. This one is not in your face but sweet and charming. The case of characters are a bit quirky and people that I would want to hang out with.
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LibraryThing member reader1009
audio fiction - queer romance with time travel.
Terrific "chosen family" cast of characters inclusive of transgender, bisexual, pansexual, gay, lesbian, and drag queens; interesting quasi-sci-fi plot; a few really steamy scenes.
This one came highly recommended to me so if you are in need of a fun
Terrific "chosen family" cast of characters inclusive of transgender, bisexual, pansexual, gay, lesbian, and drag queens; interesting quasi-sci-fi plot; a few really steamy scenes.
This one came highly recommended to me so if you are in need of a fun
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LibraryThing member rmarcin
I heard a lot about this book from a few librarians. It is a LGBTQ romance with a bit of time travel. August has just moved to NY for another stint at college. She moves to Flatbush/Brooklyn and has some quirky but caring roommates. On the subway, she meets Jane, and falls for her. When they meet
Several sex scenes, a bit of suspending disbelief over the time warp, and a sweet enduring love.
I enjoyed it, but not as much as I hoped I would.
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again, they talk, eventually developing a relationship. But Jane seems to be stuck in the 70s. Finally, August figures out why, Jane’s connection to August’s uncle, and how to help her boss save his pancake shop. Several sex scenes, a bit of suspending disbelief over the time warp, and a sweet enduring love.
I enjoyed it, but not as much as I hoped I would.
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LibraryThing member FlowerchildReads
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is the feel good romance you need in your life right now. August is a college student working her way through school, sworn off love, until she meets Jane in the New York City Subway. There’s just something so magnetic, different, and undeniably sexy about her
I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Natalie Naudus. She was a excellent pick to bring these characters to life, singing lines of music, adding inflection and emotion. The listening experience added that extra element I look for as a frequent audiobook listener.
I recommend for those who love feel good stories and romance, who perhaps may not have read an lgbtq romance before, and I highly recommend the audiobook!
Many thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the advanced listening copy and the opportunity to review One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. All opinions are my own.
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retro dress, music and low tech vibe. This begins a crush, which leads to a mystery, which leads to a wonderfully romantic story. We follow August as she and Jane dance (and sing) their way through a budding romance, as August and friends unravel the mystery, as she and Jane face difficult conversations, and August decides what she’s willing to sacrifice for the possibility of love and Jane’s happiness. Casey McQuiston really does an excellent job weaving in nostalgic time references to music, culture, location, that helps us understand Jane and draws us in. I loved the focus on love, friendship, found family, lgbtq romance, and an excellent supporting cast of characters. I’d love a sequel focusing on the friends! I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Natalie Naudus. She was a excellent pick to bring these characters to life, singing lines of music, adding inflection and emotion. The listening experience added that extra element I look for as a frequent audiobook listener.
I recommend for those who love feel good stories and romance, who perhaps may not have read an lgbtq romance before, and I highly recommend the audiobook!
Many thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the advanced listening copy and the opportunity to review One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. All opinions are my own.
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LibraryThing member deslivres5
Ah, this one is love all around: a romance between August and Jane, a love letter to NYers, both in the 1970s and the 2000s, the love between a diverse group of great friends, love of fab music, family love.
Just suspend belief and roll with and enjoy the fantasy bent.
You want LGBTQ+ rep: you get it
I wished that the "epilogue" gave us just a... wee.. bit.. more.
Just suspend belief and roll with and enjoy the fantasy bent.
You want LGBTQ+ rep: you get it
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in spades here!I wished that the "epilogue" gave us just a... wee.. bit.. more.
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LibraryThing member shazjhb
I like a good romance with interesting characters. I just wish they would let you know it had a science fiction twist.
LibraryThing member aimless22
A wonderful follow up to Red, White, and Royal Blue!
August and Jane are fascinating and every supporting character is completely fleshed out.
August and Jane are fascinating and every supporting character is completely fleshed out.
LibraryThing member Bodagirl
Very cute hea! I'm still not sure how the whole time travel / worm hole doesn't have a plot hole, but I really don't care.
LibraryThing member janismack
I couldn’t get into this book. I think it was meant for a younger audience.
LibraryThing member EdGoldberg
Great summer read for teens and adults.
It's 2020 andAugust meets Jane on the Q train. There's an instant attraction. There's only one hitch. Jane has been stuck on the Q train since 1977 and hasn't aged a bit. Can August figure out why and how to get her on solid ground? If so, will Jane live in
This is just a fun book. It is a great beach read.
It's 2020 andAugust meets Jane on the Q train. There's an instant attraction. There's only one hitch. Jane has been stuck on the Q train since 1977 and hasn't aged a bit. Can August figure out why and how to get her on solid ground? If so, will Jane live in
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the current world or the world she left behind?This is just a fun book. It is a great beach read.
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LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan
This book was a sweet listen. Two ladies who fall in love on the subway, but destined to be apart until the time gap can be filled. Yes this is a time travel novel. I didn;t expect that, and while that is one of my least favorite tropes, here it works. Jane is stuck. She has been stuck on the Q
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train for over 40 years, but does not realize that time has passed. August is cynical, and trying to find the meaning of life, and a path for her future. She had an interesting childhood which has left her closed off, and warry around cute girls. This was a fun rom of a romance. Sometimes it felt too long and drawn out but in the end it was worth it. The surrounding cast of characters are a riot. It feels like boho New York has come to life between the pages. Overall this was a fun read. Casey McQuinton is on a hot streak. Show Less
LibraryThing member Narshkite
Read to p. 130. Just not the book for me. I am not a fan of the paranormal, and this read YA. That said the characters are lovely, and the portrait of Brooklyn living and urban found family is lovely, and I recommend this for teens and young adults unreservedly. I am just too logical and too old.
LibraryThing member bibliovermis
This was weird, fun, sexy, and sweet. The fantasy time travel aspect had the unexpected benefit of adding some LGBTQIA history that gave the story additional depth. I really enjoyed it!
LibraryThing member ahef1963
Last year I bought Casey McQuiston's Red, White, and Royal Blue, and even though it's a doorstop of a book, I've read it three times, loving it more and more with each re-read. So when I discovered a second of the author's books, I ordered it and started reading it the next day. It's marvellous,
August has moved to New York City to finish her degree. She is bisexual, a virgin, unloved, unhappy, and determined not to have feelings or friends or love. She finds an apartment to share with four weird, caring, fascinating oddballs, a job at a diner that has walls, food, and a wonderful vibe, and she finds Jane on the subway. Jane is always on the subway when August rides it, and it is a short hop from crush on a pretty girl to passion to love that won't stop even when she tries her hardest.
In a science-fiction time-travel gay romance, not a genre I'd ever considered, Jane and August learn about friendship, love, life, music, drag queens, and sacrifice. It is honestly one of the best romances I've ever read about. It makes the impossible - time-travelling girlfriend stuck on a subway? - seem possible. The characters - roommates, bosses, drag queens, families - are so believable that by the end of the book I felt like I'd been travelling for hours with close friends who know my secrets and who love me anyway. This book made me both less lonely while I read it, and lonelier now that the book has ended. It gave me hope for my current quasi-relationship with a man I've never met but fallen for anyway. One Last Stop is an amazing book.
I will love Casey McQuiston's books even if the next one she writes is about levels of shale in a mud-filled East Anglian pit.
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One Last Stop, bloody marvellous. August has moved to New York City to finish her degree. She is bisexual, a virgin, unloved, unhappy, and determined not to have feelings or friends or love. She finds an apartment to share with four weird, caring, fascinating oddballs, a job at a diner that has walls, food, and a wonderful vibe, and she finds Jane on the subway. Jane is always on the subway when August rides it, and it is a short hop from crush on a pretty girl to passion to love that won't stop even when she tries her hardest.
In a science-fiction time-travel gay romance, not a genre I'd ever considered, Jane and August learn about friendship, love, life, music, drag queens, and sacrifice. It is honestly one of the best romances I've ever read about. It makes the impossible - time-travelling girlfriend stuck on a subway? - seem possible. The characters - roommates, bosses, drag queens, families - are so believable that by the end of the book I felt like I'd been travelling for hours with close friends who know my secrets and who love me anyway. This book made me both less lonely while I read it, and lonelier now that the book has ended. It gave me hope for my current quasi-relationship with a man I've never met but fallen for anyway. One Last Stop is an amazing book.
I will love Casey McQuiston's books even if the next one she writes is about levels of shale in a mud-filled East Anglian pit.
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LibraryThing member phyllis2779
Didn't like this one at all. I liked the author's previous one a lot and I had high hopes for this one. But it had a ridiculous plot and even the ending was totally unclear to me. I kept getting bored and had to force myself to press on. The female protagonist could have been interesting but the
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rat's nest of the plot misused her. I liked the Brooklyn setting and also the hipster milieu but the story was sad and not rewarding. Show Less
LibraryThing member norabelle414
Audiobook narrated by Natalie Naudus - 23-year-old August has finally left her single mother’s nest and moved to New York City to finish her college degree. She’s determined not to let anyone into her life, not even her quirky and loving hodgepodge of roommates. But every day she sees the same
I really did not care for this one. I found the characterization of August very poor and contradictory - she and her mom moved around a lot but she also says she’s never been anywhere, and the longest she ever lived in one place was 9 years but at 23 years old that’s well over ⅓ of her life. I really liked the focus on the subway, and the science fictional elements made as much sense as was necessary for the story. I did not care for the romance, however, since August fell in love withthe idea of a person, not a whole person. She basically does not exist when August isn’t looking directly at her, like object impermanence in the shape of a woman. Up until the end I was expecting August to end up with one of her roommates instead, because I couldn’t believe there was any real Jane for her to end up with. It just squicked me out, like a real person falling in love with a fictional character. All of the individual elements just did not click into place for me, and I wanted more time with the roommates and time with the romance, which is not a good sign. The audiobook narrator was good.
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intriguing woman on the same subway train, and soon enough she’s fallen in love. Together they’ll discover the mysterious fate of August’s uncle, and why Jane can’t ever leave the train.I really did not care for this one. I found the characterization of August very poor and contradictory - she and her mom moved around a lot but she also says she’s never been anywhere, and the longest she ever lived in one place was 9 years but at 23 years old that’s well over ⅓ of her life. I really liked the focus on the subway, and the science fictional elements made as much sense as was necessary for the story. I did not care for the romance, however, since August fell in love with
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LibraryThing member BarnesBookshelf
Once again, Casey McQusiton has knocked it out of the park!! Everything about this book was fantastic! The characters are so relatable, and the growth that August goes through is amazing to watch. Jane and August are perfect for each other and they are supported by a cast of secondary characters I would specifically like to see how the meeting with their parents after the end of the book goes!! I can't wait for McQuiston's next book!
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who are simply the best!! I love the magical/sci-fi aspects of the story and how it's woven into a modern world setting without feeling out of place. I would love to see more of August and Jane, though as a short story rather than a sequel novel. Show Less
LibraryThing member raschneid
It took me a solid 1/3 of the book to settle into this one, since I don't always click with this kind of heightened realism in novels. However, once I found my footing I thought it was pretty darn charming. Somehow McQuiston delivers a fresh take on the magic of New York, and Jane Su can assemble
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LibraryThing member wagner.sarah35
While I liked Red, White, and Royal Blue better, this novel is also wonderful and makes for an easy, quick read. August is a young woman in her last year of college who's just moved to New York City when she meets Jane on the subway. Strangely, Jane is always on the subway as August travels between
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college and her apartment and she tends to wear the same outfit, that of a 70s punk. So begins a mystery that delves into the magical and August's own past. Overall, a fun read that I finished quicker than I expected! Show Less
LibraryThing member MiserableFlower
A love letter to queer history, to New York, to the change of time, and to getting the girl. I fucking loved it and the absolute queerness to it. Never quite thought I’d find a sense of home in a book before.
LibraryThing member quondame
Would you like to spend months in Flatbush with August in a paradise for 20something LGBTQ folk, with an apartment shared with 3 creative and caring roommates, across the hall from an accountant/drag queen? August gets a job at Pancake Billy's house of Pancakes and commutes to Brooklyn College via
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the Q train on which she cute meets Jane. Yes, there are long bits of angsty is "she into me" pages, but there are major kinks on the rails to true love, and the story and setting are delightfully absorbing and out there. Show Less
Awards
RUSA CODES Reading List (Winner — Romance — 2022)
NPR: Books We Love (2021)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction — 2021)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Romance — 2021)
Indie Next List (June 2021)
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — 2022)
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — June 2021)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults (Selection — 2021)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2021-06-01
Physical description
432 p.; 8.18 inches
ISBN
1250239281 / 9781250239280