Book Review: One Last Stop

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One Last Stop is a romance novel by Casey McQuiston with a very light fantasy element. If you enjoy fanfiction in general, you will probably like the writing in this book. The description off the back of the book is:

Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn’t believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that.

But then, there’s Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane.

All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on her train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won’t quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one—namely, displaced in time from the 1970s—she thinks maybe it’s time to start believing.
 

I did a longer review on my blog, but here are the highlights:

Do recommend if you:

• Want a fluffy, relatively uncomplicated lead romance
• Enjoy fanfiction
• Would like to see a butch love interest
• Like stories about "finding your place"
• Want a queer romance where the struggles do not stem from being queer

Do not recommend if you:

• Find the found family trope tiresome or overdone
• Are tired of young adult protagonists
• Prefer to see interpersonal conflict between characters