Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

113 reviews

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Biphobia, Vomit, and Stalking

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

Favourite quote [I’ve already returned the book to the library, so I’m pulling this quote from my memory. I apologize if it’s not exactly correct]: “that sucks, I’m your mom now. The rules are, no Tarantino movies and bed time is never”

I loved this! It was cute, heartwarming, romantic, spicy, and relatable. I’m so glad to see a book with good bi representation and diverse characters in general. 

I really think this should be tagged as Science Fiction because I definitely would have picked the book up sooner if I had known there was more than the rom-com plot!

Things I liked:

• Queer history woven into the story [Note: I recently saw a review that said this was inaccurately represented, so I’ll have to look into this further]
• Found family
• All the side characters
• All the rep
• Sci-fi 
• Sapphic spice
• Finally a Queer book that’s not about coming out

Some critiques:

I was frustrated that the issue of child abuse and mental illness was never properly addressed. It seems like August’s childhood was played off as shitty but ultimately forgivable based on the way she reconnected with her mom at the end. In my opinion, August’s mother was severely neglectful. On the other hand, her mother’s behaviour seemed to obviously stem from mental illness, but it was never treated as such in the book.

I know that a lot of people have taken issue with the “most people aren’t like that anymore” line and I agree that it’s shitty. However, my problem isn’t with the line itself, as I think it is something that August would say. My issue is the fact that the line is never brought up or addressed again. I think it could have been a good opportunity for August to learn and grow. 

Similarly, I’ve seen a lot of people express frustration with the fact that the narration did not start using Biyu instead of Jane at the end. While I think this would have been nice, I don’t think the author set it up well. The character said she was “thinking about” going by Biyu at the very end of the book. I would have preferred if this had been introduced a bit earlier so that there was time to explore it further and allow the character to more explicitly state her desire to be called Biyu. 

As much as I love a happy ending, I think the author wrapped this one up a bit too perfectly, to the point where it wasn’t believable. Too “happily ever after” for me

Spice level: 🌶🌶🌶.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Car accident and Death

the_paperbackprincess's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol and Grief

Minor: Drug use

Hate speech, semi-public sex

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

5.0

The book beautifully shows the contrast of queerness in the ‘70s and in 2020. There’s an impossible love story helped along the way by a stunning found family. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, and Racism

writewithapendragon's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Xenophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Racism, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Bullying, Blood, and Biphobia

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

taelights's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

This is probably my favorite wlw romance in awhile. It was so cute and emotional and just such an enjoyable read. The characters really made the book for me. They all felt so real, even the side characters felt well developed, and they all had such amazing and fun personalities. The romance was amazing and sweet plus the found family worked so well together. 

This book made me laugh at some parts and cry at others. The emotions were on point throughout and I found myself really caring about all the characters and the main couple. The book was well written. The romance scenes were very sweet and the sex scenes were hot. I already find myself wanting to reread this book so I've already ordered my own physical copy of the book for my collection because I enjoyed it so much! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual content

eddine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

the side characters of this book are ✨chefs kiss✨

the diversity and rep??? omfff

soso different from RWRB but i love it smmm

id die for wes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

sydneys_bookshelf's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted mysterious slow-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

1.75

you can set a book up to succeed, but if the pace and writing and plot don’t match up, then i can’t enjoy it. it felt like this book was dragging for the first 300 pages and i just wanted to finish it to finish it. i’ve never DNF a book but i was close. love her other book, but this wasn’t for me unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

katrinarose's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

Really cute, wholesome romance! I was not expecting the magical realism which wasn’t my favorite but it worked. Also lots of deus ex machina that sometimes made the story feel middle grade but overall the characters were lovely, and the found family trope always gets me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, and Racism

commanderceleste's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, and Hate crime