{"id":143870,"date":"2021-06-07T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=143870"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:31:28","slug":"review-one-last-stop-by-casey-mcquiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/review-one-last-stop-by-casey-mcquiston\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you haven\u2019t been living under a rock for the last year, you may have heard of a little book called Red, White & Royal Blue<\/em> by Casey McQuiston, one that was arguably the biggest romance novel of 2020. This is at least correct for me – I read it five times in lockdown and it single-handedly launched me into the romance genre. So when I heard Casey was back again with another queer romance called One Last Stop<\/a><\/em><\/strong> set on the New York subway \u2014 released in Pride Month no less \u2014 I was THRILLED.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Casey<\/a>

Casey McQuiston<\/p><\/div>\n

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don\u2019t exist and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can\u2019t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there\u2019s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.<\/p>\n\n\n

But then, there\u2019s this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August\u2019s day when she needed it most. August\u2019s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there\u2019s one big problem: Jane doesn\u2019t just look like an old school punk rocker. She\u2019s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it\u2019s time to start believing in some things, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Last Stop<\/em> is really something special. It\u2019s a story full of hilarious charm and millennial shenanigans, a love story both sexy and adorable, with the most diverse and representative cast I have read in a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something about how McQuiston writes her main characters that makes you want to be their best friend immediately. August and Jane shine through as the main story line with their witty banter and downright illegal levels of chemistry (not hyperbole, they probably need to remember they\u2019re on the public transport system at some points). But the cast of characters supporting our time-jumping couple are a ragtag group of misfits that could each have a book of their own and I would read every single one of them. In fact, this is my official pitch to Netflix for a Friends-style sitcom starring Myla the artist\/engineer, Niko the actual psychic, Wes the broody tattoo artist, and Isaiah \u2014 also known as Annie Depressant \u2014 accountant by day, drag queen by night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At times sad, there is always hope \u2014 McQuiston doesn\u2019t write conflict to upset or drama for the sake of drama \u2014 everything is so purposeful and layered to understand the characters a new way in every chapter. Most of all, this book was just so damn fun. I couldn\u2019t recommend One Last Stop<\/em> more (and trust me, I\u2019ve tried!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014One Last Stop<\/a><\/em> by Casey McQuiston (Pan Macmillan Australia) is out on 8 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘A love story both sexy and adorable.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":143875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6678],"tags":[10695,9850,10217,13046,11509,4131,13047,4577],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/OneLastStop-Social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143870"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144119,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870\/revisions\/144119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}