Casey McQuiston

Natalie Naudus

One Last Stop

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "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 Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. 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 believe 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 going to change that. But then, there’s Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won’t quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one—namely, displaced in time from the 1970s—she thinks maybe it’s time to start believing. 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.

blue

She's twenty-three years old, and she's doing something absolutely stupid, and she's allowed to do absolutely stupid things whenever she wants, and the rest doesn't have to matter right now. How had she not realized it sooner? As it turns out, letting herself have fun is fun.

Rita Maia Costa

«There's no good timing in this situation.” (…) "Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either.”

Jess

“like a steampunk Tony Stark in a leather skirt”

"Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice."

"Jane is lightning on long legs - the dark never stood a chance"

"She's leaning back, one arm slung over the back of an empty seat, and she...she's got 

A red bird curling down from her shoulder, Chinese characters above her elbow. An honest-to-God old-timey anchor on her bicep.

*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

faith hurren

"You can tear yourself apart and rebuild from scratch, bring yourself to every corner of the map, sew a new self from the scraps of a thousand other people and places. You can try and expand to fill a different shape. But at the end of the day, there's a place at the foot of the bed where your shoes hit the floor and, it's the same.

"...but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it's made of, if it's good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now."

"None of us know exactly who we are, and guess what? It doesn't fucking matter."

He's sweating like a fucking hard cheese on the A train. 

"Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt."

alexia

August had the sexual prowess of a goldfish and the emotional vocabulary to match

"Not to be a buzzkill, but Mercury is in retrograde for another week, which is... not optimal" 

"I wish I were never born," August moans into the floor. 

What if I get out there and end up realizing there's not a dream for me, or a purpose, or anything—

It’s nuts that we all start out having these vague ideas of what we like to do, hobbies, interests, and then one day everybody has their thing, you know? They used to just be a person and now they're a-an architect, or a banker, or a lawyer, or-or a serial killer who makes jewelry out of human teeth. Like, things. That they do. That they are. What if there's not that thing for me?

archie

I don't think Jane/Biyu should of stayed in August's time. Don't get me wrong I love them together, their love story is beautiful but there is just some part of me that can't help but feel bad for Jane/Biyu like she lost everything I think the main thing is her family. Maybe if we got the reunion with them i would feel like her being in this time would be ok, but we don't know how that interaction went. idk im probably just thinking about it too much. it's a love story after all.

dezzy

This was longer than the books I usually read, but regardless, it was an enjoyable read. I'm a sucker for found-family and this book delivered. The exploration of the friendships was a highlight to me. I liked the diversity of the cast, and I was such a fan of Niko and Myla, they're such a cute couple and interesting characters. My only complaint is that it took me long to feel connected to the characters (past the 50% mark), which made it feel like the pacing was slow and the story was dragging. Before I started truly caring for the characters, the whole Jane mystery was what kept me engaged. And lastly, I loved the revelations and twists, they kept the story intriguing. In short, pick this up if you're looking for an unserious lovely read. 

"Here they are. Two sets of sneakers on a scrap of metal. Two girls in the middle of a hurricane, tearing down the line. She’s looking up at Jane, and Jane’s looking down at her, and August feels her everywhere, even the places she’s not touching, pressed close as the world roars on."

damn. what a perfect read for pride month! i love august and jane so much i could cry. also myla, niko, and wes. found family trope, you are always dear to me 🫶🏼

i would never be able to ride a train, listen to love of my life by queen (which is already one of my all time fav songs before reading this so it's even more special now), and eat pancakes without thinking of subway girl and coffee girl.

this book is a time, a place, and a person. 

p.s. if they can make a perfect rwrb adaptation, i hope jane and august get one too someday.

Kris Felger

God, I remember growing up and only reading stories about straight white couples… reading this made me more emotional than I thought it would. It made me laugh out loud (literally) and made me cry to the point where my tears stained the pages. I love this book, so much.

Kiran Aftab

4.5/5: i cried too much over the last 25% of this book. i'm going to kindly disregard the musty train and pda. it's just really cool seeing the queer representation in this book

danakim

2.5 not because it's particularly bad but because it's not my kind of book

Andrea Morales

** spoiler alert **
           4.5 ☆‘s rounded down
tengo muchos SENTIMIENTOS ESPEREN

where can I get a tall butch lesbian from the 70’s to rail me?? 
the side characters were amazing and funny, our main characters WERE SO CUTE dios míoOO.

amé el final. part of me was always kinda hesitant con la idea que Jane se quedara en el presente con August, like, my girl lost her entire life in a blink of an eye y no sé si sería lo mejor que se quedara. but they love each other SO MUCH they belong together. and then at the end when Jane was able to reconnect with her family, it was very heartwarming ):

isabelle

I was looking forward to this book because I enjoyed red, white, and royal blue so much. but I really struggled with this one, honestly. the plot was lacking, and I didn’t feel like I was able to build strong connections to august’s roommates and friends. we skip over her college adventures because of her romance with jane, which just felt odd regarding the plot. and jane being stuck in the train was a cool concept, but it got boring fast. their love story was sweet, but this book felt extremely longwinded. I’m surprised I didn’t dnf it, but here we are.

Tara Bounkeovisane

Bria

** spoiler alert **
           I didn’t think I would be too into this book after finding out about Jane’s issue, but once the plan started, I was so invested. I kinda wanted Jane to go back and watch her sisters grow up, but I also wanted her to stay with August. Either way, I’m happy with how it ended.


One thing that throws me off is August’s friend’s automatic acceptance of Jane's situation. There is barely any questioning. They just hear about this weird thing and are okay with it. Also, I understand that there’s no way for August and Jane to have sex outside of a subway, but it is still strange.

Elisavet Rozaki 

i read this in a day and a half i feel insane

ingrid 

this book makes me want to live in an nyc suburb with a chosen queer family and and epic love story SO BAD 
PLS READ IT HOLY FCK

sharkie

Brionna Palm

i love girls who love girls and books about loving girls that makes my heart all warm and fuzzy because i !!! love !!! girls !!!

Kaylee Ray

IM CRYING this book is absolutely incredibly well written. the characters are so lovable and i’ll never get over august and biyu.

i got genuine anxiety for the last 100 pages hoping for a happy ending so thank god the lesbians were reunited and lived happily ever after

kayla 

Isabella 

This was such a fun, cute book!! I loved every character in it; they were all unique and interested. The characters were well-developed. Everything about their relationships was a strong point in the book. A great execution of a found family, and I love the found family trope! The plot is interesting and the writing was beautiful. However, I felt like it was too dragging. I enjoyed the first and last part, but during the middle part, I got slightly uninterested. Overall, this book was still a nice read.

Allison Dempsey

Despite reading the synopsis of this book, I still ended up surprised and confused at the extremely bizarre take on NYC public transit. A quick read but I just didn’t like it as much as Red, White & Royal Blue.

me when women🤓👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩☺️ i’m a sucker for the found family trope and this was right up my alley. i really enjoyed reading it, the characters are lovely and the little community august found are very endearing. i love myla and niko! wes is ummm let’s just say he’s an aaron minyard to me. love Jane she’s everything to me... i deserve her!!!! anyway this was a nice read that lived up to my expectations. casey get writing i need a sequel stat

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that puts a queer spin on Kate & Leopold. A 23-year-old realises her subway crush is displaced from 1970's Brooklyn, and she must do everything in her power to help her - and try not to fall in love with the girl lost in time - before it's too late . . .

Julie Rubens

Omfg is all I can say. 

This book has, tied with Evelyn Hugo, become my favorite book of the year. It’s so good! I literally loved ALL of the characters, I loved how inclusive and relatable they all were. 

The storyline was also just *chefs kiss*. There were plot twist everywhere and I honestly could not figure out what would happen until the final pages. GO READ THIS BOOK!!

chloe rae

This book was SPECTACULAR. 
An absolute blast of a read! Full of so much love and friendship and ~romance~. I had no idea what the story would be about going in (it’s not anything I would’ve expected!) and I just had the best time figuring it all out along the way. Reading books that take place in NYC while also BEING in NYC is just some special kind of magic. Now I have to read everything she’s written!

❓ #QOTD If you could live in a different time and place, when and where would you choose? ❓

🦇 August expects moving to New York will only prove her cynicism right. The only way to live is to do it alone. That is, until a mysterious girl on the train hands her a scarf, sparking not only a major subway crush on the Q, but an adventure that will alter August's perspective of the world forever.

💜 Oh. My. Goddess. This book. THIS BOOK. This book hit me like a freight train (yes, yes, I see the pun). It's been a month since I read it because I couldn't find the words...I still can't. But I'll try.

💜 This. Book. Why did NO ONE tell me about this book?!

💜 From page one, this book is a childhood friend reaching out and tugging you into a warm, solid embrace before lifting you off your feet, spinning you around, and causing the word to blur. Casey McQuiston's narration is familiar, inviting, intimate. I couldn't stop annotating. August is raw and vulnerable and real, but still figuring out who she is away from her mother and messy childhood. We're only lucky enough to discover the woman she is alongside her.

💜 I don't want to spoil this story for anyone who hasn't read it yet, because there's a moment that changes EVERYTHING -- the genre, the plot, August, EVERYTHING. It's executed so well that I still feel the impact. WHY am I tearing up writing a review for this a MONTH later?!

💜 The micro-messages in this story are so heavy and impactful, yet written with such ease and grace and respect. There's:

🚇 Beautiful representation and discussion about virginity 

🚇 Exploration into New York's queer history

🚇 A Chinese lesbian displaced during the 70s

💜 Beyond that, there's a beautiful sapphic ship, quirky cast of queer side characters, and sense of found family that's beyond heart-warming. I'm completely onboard for whatever Casey McQuiston has planned next.

🚇 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2021)

🚇 RUSA CODES Reading List for Romance (2022)

🚇She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Romance (2021)

🦇 Recommended for all readers; namely fans of Delilah Green Doesn't Care, She Gets the Girl, and Imogen, Obviously. This book is absolute magic. I read this in February but I can already say it's one of my top reads for the year. Yes, I'm still tearing up. What is wrong with me?

❝ Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice. ❞

❝ August looks at her as the train reverses past Gravesend rooftops, this girl out of time, the same face and body and hair and smile that took August’s life by the shoulders in January and shook. And she can’t believe Jane had the nerve, the audacity, to become the one thing August can’t resist: a mystery. ❞

❝ "Your friendly smile of acceptance—from the safe position of heterosexuality,’” Jane reads aloud, “‘isn’t enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle … and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.’” ❞

❝ August laughs and wants so badly to know what it feels like to show off the person who’s yours from across the crowd...Maybe what she really wants is to be the person across the crowd who belongs to someone. ❞

❝ “The attraction between you two is literally a spark, and it’s the same spark that’s bringing her back into reality." ❞

❝ “I fell in love with you the day I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s—that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since—since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re—you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my fucking hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.” ❞

Jazelle H

🦇 Book Review 🦇

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

❓ #QOTD If you could live in a different time and place, when and where would you choose? ❓
 
🦇 August expects moving to New York will only prove her cynicism right. The only way to live is to do it alone. That is, until a mysterious girl on the train hands her a scarf, sparking not only a major subway crush on the Q, but an adventure that will alter August's perspective of the world forever.

💜 Oh. My. Goddess. This book. THIS BOOK. This book hit me like a freight train (yes, yes, I see the pun). It's been a month since I read it because I couldn't find the words...I still can't. But I'll try.
💜 This. Book. Why did NO ONE tell me about this book?!
💜 From page one, this book is a childhood friend reaching out and tugging you into a warm, solid embrace before lifting you off your feet, spinning you around, and causing the word to blur. Casey McQuiston's narration is familiar, inviting, intimate. I couldn't stop annotating. August is raw and vulnerable and real, but still figuring out who she is away from her mother and messy childhood. We're only lucky enough to discover the woman she is alongside her.
💜 I don't want to spoil this story for anyone who hasn't read it yet, because there's a moment that changes EVERYTHING -- the genre, the plot, August, EVERYTHING. It's executed so well that I still feel the impact. WHY am I tearing up writing a review for this a MONTH later?!
💜 The micro-messages in this story are so heavy and impactful, yet written with such ease and grace and respect. There's:
🚇 Beautiful representation and discussion about virginity 
🚇 Kisses for evidence-gathering
🚇 Exploration into New York's queer history
🚇 A Chinese lesbian displaced during the 70s
🚇 Lost memory
🚇 HIV/AIDs activists
💜 Beyond that, there's a beautiful sapphic ship, quirky cast of queer side characters, and sense of found family that's beyond heart-warming. I'm completely onboard for whatever Casey McQuiston has planned next.

💜 Literary Awards:
🚇 ALA Alex Award Nominee (2022)
🚇 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2021)
🚇 RUSA CODES Reading List for Romance (2022)
🚇She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Romance (2021)

🦇 Recommended for all readers; namely fans of Delilah Green Doesn't Care, She Gets the Girl, and Imogen, Obviously. This book is absolute magic. I read this in February but I can already say it's one of my top reads for the year. Yes, I'm still tearing up. What is wrong with me?

✨ The Vibes ✨
🩷 Queer Found Family
🚇 Bisexual FMC
🩷 Diverse Cast
🏙️ Coming-of-Age
🩷 Sapphic Ship
🚝 Smut
🩷 Sci-Fi Twist

💬 Quotes 
❝ Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice. ❞
❝ August looks at her as the train reverses past Gravesend rooftops, this girl out of time, the same face and body and hair and smile that took August’s life by the shoulders in January and shook. And she can’t believe Jane had the nerve, the audacity, to become the one thing August can’t resist: a mystery. ❞
❝ "Your friendly smile of acceptance—from the safe position of heterosexuality,’” Jane reads aloud, “‘isn’t enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle … and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.’” ❞
❝ August laughs and wants so badly to know what it feels like to show off the person who’s yours from across the crowd...Maybe what she really wants is to be the person across the crowd who belongs to someone. ❞
❝ “The attraction between you two is literally a spark, and it’s the same spark that’s bringing her back into reality." ❞
❝ “I fell in love with you the day I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s—that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since—since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re—you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my fucking hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.” ❞

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