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A review by luhsoona
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
2.0
96% of the way through idk if I want to finish (I did finish btw)
I have thoughts
1) white woman savior trope is weird
2) all the side characters are or some type of minority, whether they're queer, POC, or both. This is fine, in fact this is true to life, when you're gay you just know every gay person from there since in reality there's only so many of you compared to the general population, lol. However, because of the way this book was written the side characters were not fully developed into their own person. Which has the weird vibe of all the characters in this book had a singular path for a White Bisexual Woman and not their own motives. Yeesh.
3) the love interest is one of the more developed persons in the book, in terms of everything she thought and had to say was so fucking cool. I probably would have fallen in love with her too. However, she's definitely...a love interest that is essentially a manic pixie girl of color and not allowed to be her own person. The subtext of she doesn't remember her own fucking life unless August is there? It's weird, so weird.
4) also the love interest is from the 70s so things like police brutality, the AIDS crisis, general gay hate crimes you know...since the POV is strictly from August's perspective we get these as her thoughts and little sound bites on it. I don't think...that was a good choice. At all. Their story shouldn't be told that way? It just. Is weird. Don't feel great about it.
I don't know. I want to re read RW&RB again because I think there are hints of this in there too. I actually really like the authors writing and enjoyed it as an audiobook, I think that's probably where it shines as opposed to print actually but. Yeah. There's good intent by the author here I think, to create a diverse, queer love story but it just misses the mark.
I have thoughts
1) white woman savior trope is weird
2) all the side characters are or some type of minority, whether they're queer, POC, or both. This is fine, in fact this is true to life, when you're gay you just know every gay person from there since in reality there's only so many of you compared to the general population, lol. However, because of the way this book was written the side characters were not fully developed into their own person. Which has the weird vibe of all the characters in this book had a singular path for a White Bisexual Woman and not their own motives. Yeesh.
3) the love interest is one of the more developed persons in the book, in terms of everything she thought and had to say was so fucking cool. I probably would have fallen in love with her too. However, she's definitely...a love interest that is essentially a manic pixie girl of color and not allowed to be her own person. The subtext of she doesn't remember her own fucking life unless August is there? It's weird, so weird.
4) also the love interest is from the 70s so things like police brutality, the AIDS crisis, general gay hate crimes you know...since the POV is strictly from August's perspective we get these as her thoughts and little sound bites on it. I don't think...that was a good choice. At all. Their story shouldn't be told that way? It just. Is weird. Don't feel great about it.
I don't know. I want to re read RW&RB again because I think there are hints of this in there too. I actually really like the authors writing and enjoyed it as an audiobook, I think that's probably where it shines as opposed to print actually but. Yeah. There's good intent by the author here I think, to create a diverse, queer love story but it just misses the mark.