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One Last Stop: Der letzte Halt ist erst der Anfang by Casey McQuiston

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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

📖 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Book Review 📖

9th book of January 2022 and 9th of the year:

Another amazing book by a favorite author! I laughed my butt off throughout the entire book, fell in love with all of the characters SO quickly, and loved all of the representation and the queer found family aspect in it. I fully want to read an entire book series based on Jane’s life, and I also can’t wait to start the author’s newest book! Some author-provided TWs are (on page) drinking, light drug use(weed), semi-public sex, sexual content, exploration of depression and anxiety, memory loss and cognitive issues, familial estrangement, familial death, grief, missing persons, implied PTSD, and (off-page/past/alluded to) homophobic violence and hate speech, police violence, the AIDS crisis, racism, childhood neglect, arson, and a historic hate crime resulting in loss of life📚♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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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

Casey McQuiston has a way of peaking into your heart and scooping everything out and making it a home for the characters she writes. I fell in love with Jane and i fell in love with August and found family is possible one of the best tropes of all time. I cannot rave enough about how good this book is. Everything, the dialogue, the setting, the tone, the characters. It’s all one big beautiful story that is really really worth reading.

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lunep's review against another edition

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

5.0

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emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

This was really wonderful. It's hard to go wrong for me in terms of an uplifting queer romance that emphasizes community and the inherent right each human has to be unconditionally loved, but I nonetheless appreciated this story for encompassing that. (It was also lovely to get that kind of character-focused story packaged in a relatively plot-focused way, with a few fun [if predictable] twists). This was the kind of comfort novel that perfectly captures the magic/terror/suspense/wonder of falling in love and that, while not totally avoiding the tendency for romance stories to overly rely on maddeningly easy-to-address miscommunications to introduce drama, utilizes that trope in the least frustrating way I've ever seen it used. (A huge compliment from someone who loves romance novels but HATES plot elements that could have been avoided IF THEY JUST FRICKING TALKED... Point being: this book wasn't annoying.) I may not be rushing to reread this (it was sexy and lovely and emotional, but it didn't give me the vibe, necessarily, of offering something totally new with every reread), but I would absolutely recommend this to anyone looking for a queer love story that's a fairly quick read (despite its bulk) and that still packs an emotional punch.

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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

I definitely understand the hype around this book! I loved the concept, and overall I thought it was well-done. The pace slowed down in the middle, but I was invested enough in the characters by then to keep going. I liked the combination of informal and poetic prose, but you have to be ready to fully jump in to the protagonist's mind to appreciate it.

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lzzz004's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-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? No

4.0

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samchase112's review against another edition

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

4.75

I can't believe this book exists? It's the perfect found-family-lesbian-time-travel-romance-book. It's so easy to be swept into the world of these characters, of drag queens and late-night parties and cheap apartments and disgusting subway cars and time traveling activists. The best part is certainly August's character growth and the growth of the little family she finds herself thrown into -- Wes, I LOVE YOU -- so much so, that I think the romance was my least favorite part of this book? Somehow. What can I say, except I will read anything Casey McQuinston writes and probably love it to death.

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anniereads221's review against another edition

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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nightfell's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

Read this if you want a fun, heartwarming romance about an awkward and endearing woman who falls in love with a hot lesbian who hasn't washed in 40+ years. Overall, I think it was a cute, sometimes deep, book. I liked the side characters and their friendships with each other, and how queer the book was. Jane's character was written well, however at times I found it tedious to hear so much about her past because over time she started to become one of those cool people who you admire but can't relate to, and for some of the book she didn't feel like a real person, compared to August. This also added to the stark difference between them, as she was at rockstar status, and August was just trying to survive, so that made it hard to ship them in the beginning. However, I liked how real Jane became as the book progressed, hearing about the harder parts of her life like her upbringing. They felt so much more in tune and I enjoyed their relationship overall.

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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