Reviews tagging 'Blood'

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

38 reviews

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

bkahmann's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Death, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Blood, and Hate crime

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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

A New Girl vibe + A Schitt's Creek cast + Lesbians = one happy reader. I grinned, giggled, laughed out loud, and stifled reactions in public because of this book. I felt some type of way about reading certain scenes at work and kept reading anyway because I was not hitting pause on this story for love or money. Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes was a magical setting with a feeling that I can only dream of transposing onto my own stories, and the characters were either helplessly lovable or comically despisable.

The ending felt a bit self-indulgent, but I'm willing to let that slide because of how enjoyable the whole reading experience was.

This was an incredible world to get lost in, especially during Pride month. I'm glad to have spent time in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Oh my god. This. Is. Everything. Holy shit. Yes. Yes absolutely. Fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, Vomit, and Bullying

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, Hate crime, Racism, Car accident, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Lesbophobia

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Lesbophobia, and Vomit

Minor: Death, Car accident, Hate crime, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

eamily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Grief, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Hate crime, Cursing, Confinement, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Blood, Religious bigotry, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Dysphoria, and Death

clemrain's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

One Last Stop is a simple sci-fi romance stuffed with quirky characters with small supernatural elements.

Good and interesting characters that don't bore because they're new (even thought they follow character tropes, they aren’t underwhelming). I’m rooting for all of them and I like their dynamics a lot. They’re a found family.

I found the main couple a bit boring unfortunately. They seemed to be the only characters I hoped more from. I guess it was hard for me to understand their struggles.

The story involves queerness past just the romance. It discusses queer history and shows it through the perspective of a character that has lived through some of the worst of it. It gets emotional and heavy.

I’m not a huge fan of the writing in this book. Millennial new adult book humour and dialogue is not my personal favourite. Some of the romantic sap got a bit too repetitive, corny, and just overall didn’t work for me. Some, however, did. It’s a mixed bag. The descriptions are vivid, engaging the senses. It’s the dialogue that didn’t work for me.

This book is nsfw and has some graphic sex scenes. I was not expecting this especially having reading Red, White and Royal Blue which was was not nearly as explicit. However, props to Casey. That is how the lesbians are doing it.

I was expecting a different ending. But it’s not a terrible ending.

Exactly what you’d expect from a romance. Gays deserve happy endings!! Jane and August got theirs. Either way, I was waiting for it to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Classism, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Transphobia

malupastafrola's review against another edition

funny hopeful 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Blood

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-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

Tldr: I love these characters, I want to be their friends, and this clean 2020 version of New York sounds fun. 

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/one-last-stop

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Blood

matheo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident