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One Last Stop: Der letzte Halt ist erst der Anfang by Casey McQuiston
295 reviews
sarahamuller1's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content
Moderate: Death
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime
merle_bookdragon's review against another edition
- 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
This review will contain spoilers.
I went into this with a very vague idea of the blurb being "girl meets other girl on subway and falls in love" so let me tell you I was surprised when suddenly there was time travel involved? Or time ... jumps? Blips? I don't know what to call it. Anyway, I was NOT expecting this fantastical/magical/sc-ifi element? However, I really enjoyed it because it gave the narrative a nice frame to exist in and also guaranteed to a certain degree that the story would progress because they were on a time grind.
Found family is my absolute favorite trope maybe EVER so of course I loved August, Myla, Niko, and Wes' flat family, then adding Isaiah and (more or less technically) Jane, and of course all the people from Billy's and UGH it just made me very happy because what is a life goal if not a very happy (queer) family of people. The book also gave enough "screentime" to the other characters and their stories, giving the reader a break from the main narrative without taking away from it at all.
"I wish I was never born," August moans into the floor.
"Retweet," Wes says solemnly.
Otherwise:
- A+ jokes, like honestly I love when characters have good humor
- so much queerness and especially so much drag, i love it
- also kinda of a little love letter to New York? from a very genuine perspective I think, considering McQuiston also currently lives in the city
- two scenes that I would officially titled "pretty spicy" but could be skipped if the reader isn't comfortable with details, I am still questioning their sanity after they did it on the Q ngl
- Wes needs a hug and should be protected
- Niko and Myla = powercouple
- I wish I had HALF the swag that Jane has
Anyway I think that's it for now but honestly truly really loved it.
And she'd do figure drawing, where she'd draw the negative space around a person first, and then fill in the person. And that's how I'm trying to look at it. Maybe I don't know what fills it in yet, 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.
Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia
Moderate: Racism, Grief, and Death
Minor: Hate crime and Car accident
jkneebone's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.5
Things I adored about this book: The side characters - all of August's coworkers at Pancake Billy's, and especially her roommates-slash-found family-slash-band of misfits. The descriptions of NYC and especially Brooklyn. August's complicated relationship with her mother. Jane's backstory, and the window it gives into queer history. The simmering, sultry relationship between Jane and August, and how we get to see it develop. The side plot about fighting gentrification. How aggressively queer it is (the cast of characters are almost entirely LGBT, and August & co frequently attend drag shows etc).
Things I struggled with about this book: The fact that it is explicitly set in 2020 when it was published in summer 2021 (I know it was probably already written & edited pre-pandemic, but changing the dates would have been - to me - a good use of time). The pacing (it drags at the beginning). The genre combo/overlap of sci-fi(?) and romance (usually in romance, you know the characters will end up together, and I spent way too much time worrying because I didn't know *how* that could possibly work out).
Although I ultimately really enjoyed this when I finally finished, it took me a looooong time to get through it. I kept starting, getting distracted, reading ahead, then putting it down and not wanting to come back to it. I didn't realize going in that it was a time travel book, and I was really having trouble reconciling the romance conceits I would usually expect with the unfamiliar, how-to-get-Jane-unstuck plot that felt at times very uncertain. I don't think this is a fault or a failure of McQuiston's - if anything it's a failure of the way we market books - because it was a cool idea that was pulled off really well in the end. But I did dock a half-star from my overall rating since it was so hard for me to get into the book at first.
Graphic: Hate crime and Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Cursing, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia
Minor: Fatphobia
marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Homophobia, Death, Grief, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Racism
Minor: Car accident, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime
stephmcoakley's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Deadnaming, Alcoholism, Addiction, Biphobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Sexual content
kittykatruin's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, and Racism
Minor: Drug use
dandeliongirl's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia
Moderate: Grief, Death, and Racism
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime
val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Vomit, Grief, Hate crime, Alcohol, Death, and Car accident
kespittia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Moderate: Hate crime
ahopper7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Car accident, Hate crime, and Alcohol