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One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

220 reviews

perscoot's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia and Racism

Minor: Drug use

a_win_in_clear_rain's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The first sapphic book and the first romance book I read, and it pulled me into a whole world of these books, so I'll always love it (take this with a grain of salt because I know I'm biased)!
Great diversity and representation too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia

Moderate: Cursing and Hate crime

Minor: Death, Transphobia, and Alcohol

eleek0609's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, and Hate crime

Moderate: Dementia and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

kalmia31's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Biphobia, Religious bigotry, Addiction, and Death

ellelockley's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

August moves to NYC believing that magic and cinematic love stories don't exist but then she meets Jane on the subway. However theres one big problem, Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s. I did really enjoy this book, and I love all the characters so much, especially Myla, Niko and Wes. They added so much to this book. August and Biyu are now one of my favourite couples in literature. It was so well written and intriguing. I only have two issues with it, firstly the chapters are excessively long, I'm sorry but 40 pages a chapter is too long. And secondly the ending, for me, was only happy for August.

Biyu left her entire life behind and she was just supposed to move on? I think it would've been a better ending if she'd gone back to 1977.

> I'd recommend this book to anyone who loves romance that's not easy and comes with mystery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

Moderate: Xenophobia, Biphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Car accident

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, Hate crime, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Blood

semi-public sex, exploration of depression and anxiety, memory loss and cognitive issues, familial estrangement, familial death, missing persons, implied PTSD, Homophobic violence and hate speech, the AIDS crisis, childhood neglect, arson

moonheavn's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Una vez más, Casey McQuiston superó mis expectativas. Expectativas que ya estaban altas porque tras leer (en inglés) sus otros dos libros y amarlos, fueron superadas.
Necesito decirlo: CASEY MCQUISTON, AUTORE DE LA DÉCADA.
El libro es una obra de arte, como siempre, la narración es buenísima, y la razón por la que la estimo tanto es porque el tema del libro tampoco es algo fácil de narrar para que el lector entienda.
Me hizo reír, llorar, colapsar de amor, sentir que interrumpía las escenas más subidas de tono y, en ocasiones, enojarme con personajes.

Ejém, cuando Jane se enojó con August y la trató como la mierda. O cuando August básicamente trató de puta a Myla.

 
Casey, gracias por escribir arte. Amé el libro, amé la narración, la trama, la tensión entre personajes. 
Lean este pedazo de libro, si tenemos gustos parecidos en alguna forma, les va a gustar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

its2early4this's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I'm not sure if I've read a book with such a diverse cast before. If so, this one is still pretty high up there. Gay men, lesbians, at least one bisexual and pansexual person each, at least one trans person, multiple drag queens, mentions of non-binary people and gender non-conformity in general, lots of POC. All-in-all, that aspect of the book is fantastic. While the romance is a major point of the book, it didn't feel like THE focal point, which I enjoyed. I would say that, really, this book was about finding yourself, finding a place to belong, and found family. Equal parts sad and inspiring. I don't have much of anything negative to say about this book. I suppose the pacing felt odd in some places, but that could be because I had to return it mid-read due to holds, and wait to finish it. All-in-all, very worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Classism, Death of parent, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

nehanaomi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Cursing, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Vomit, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

mxbluet18's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Trigger warnings for One Last Stop include: drinking, drug use, sexual content, discussion of depression and anxiety; memory loss and cognitive issues; familial estrangement; familial death; grief, missing persons; and implied PTSD. As well as mentions of past homophobic violence; hate speech and hate crimes; police violence; the AIDS crisis; childhood neglect; racism, arson.
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When I started this book, I didn't really know what to make of it. I couldn't really get involved with the characters, and I couldn't find anything I was going to enjoy about it. Things changed once Jane was introduced, I definitely became more interested in it.
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One thing that I wasn't so keen on with this book is the sexually explicit scenes. And I agree that books can have those things, and that they are appropriate to be in books, it's just not something I like in my books. That being said, this is a new adult fiction book, so the characters are older and so those things are going to be more common.
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This book also was a really nice example of the found family trope. The way Niko, Wes and Myla all fit together, and then how August and eventually Jane slot into that family. And how the fact that Myla and Niko are dating doesn't take away from the family
And when Wes has insecurities and anxieties about when they get married and how he'll fit into that plan, they help to assuage those doubts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Alcohol, Grief, and Drug use

Minor: Mental illness