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A review by mina_mouse
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
3.0
Realistically I give this book a 2.5, don’t get me wrong it was cute and fun, but I’m just really over sapphic books all feeling the same. It was a cute book, felt a little too gen z for me but cute.
My main issue, not jus with this book but with queer/sapphic fiction in general is I feel like I’m constantly seeing the same 5 stereotypical artsy quirky queer characters copy and pasted into everything with different names. And this is coming from the most stereotypical, heavily tattooed, artsy, nerdy, owns 30 different pairs of random object earrings bisexual you’ll ever meet. I would really love to see more diversity in characters, not just the feels forced to add wokeness to a story type. I just want to find a good sapphic novel that doesn’t feel forced and straight out of a wattpad fix written by a chronically online 16 year old.
I just want to finish by saying this is no beef with the author personally, the book was enjoyable, but it didn’t feel like anything special in the grand scheme of sapphic literature. I would probably recommend this to a teenager 16-20 who needs a sweet fun gay story if they haven’t read it before. It just didn’t satisfy me personally as a big gay reader looking for a refreshing lesbian love story.
My main issue, not jus with this book but with queer/sapphic fiction in general is I feel like I’m constantly seeing the same 5 stereotypical artsy quirky queer characters copy and pasted into everything with different names. And this is coming from the most stereotypical, heavily tattooed, artsy, nerdy, owns 30 different pairs of random object earrings bisexual you’ll ever meet. I would really love to see more diversity in characters, not just the feels forced to add wokeness to a story type. I just want to find a good sapphic novel that doesn’t feel forced and straight out of a wattpad fix written by a chronically online 16 year old.
I just want to finish by saying this is no beef with the author personally, the book was enjoyable, but it didn’t feel like anything special in the grand scheme of sapphic literature. I would probably recommend this to a teenager 16-20 who needs a sweet fun gay story if they haven’t read it before. It just didn’t satisfy me personally as a big gay reader looking for a refreshing lesbian love story.