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A review by tsunni
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
adventurous
funny
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? It's complicated
4.0
The main story is really cute. The two mains, Jane and August, are really lovable. August has a great arc and growth over the course of the story, and her interactions with all the side characters and her subplot with her mother are done well with good emotional weight. Jane gets her deep character moments and there's some sense of impending closure by the end of personal story. The romance was really fun in the manic pixie dream girl disaster bisexual/uhaul (subway?) lesbian romcom sense, altho Jane and August kinda feel like human checklists of carefully crafted opposite character traits sometimes, Jane especially.
I did learn to love the side characters over time, they were hard to deal with at first, but by the end I liked them all and all their subplots got resolved, though some were kinda thin, which I was fine with, the book was too long already. There's a ton of queer rep which is fantastic.
The story has some padding, with a significant portion spent trying to fit in completely unnecessary explanations for the paranormal stuff going on. It slowed parts of the book down a ton and just kinda went on tangents sometimes (like the seance part, that contributed nothing at all). Kinda wish those weren't there, it made the book kinda overstay it's welcome a little. Still liked it though
They had sex on a NY subway train that is SO GROSS people LOL
I did learn to love the side characters over time, they were hard to deal with at first, but by the end I liked them all and all their subplots got resolved, though some were kinda thin, which I was fine with, the book was too long already. There's a ton of queer rep which is fantastic.
The story has some padding, with a significant portion spent trying to fit in completely unnecessary explanations for the paranormal stuff going on. It slowed parts of the book down a ton and just kinda went on tangents sometimes (like the seance part, that contributed nothing at all). Kinda wish those weren't there, it made the book kinda overstay it's welcome a little. Still liked it though
They had sex on a NY subway train that is SO GROSS people LOL