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One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

Start date: November 1, 2024

Finish date: November 30, 2024

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Jun 24, 2021 jess rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2021, queer, ladyish, audiobook-d, fiction, hea

August moves to New York. She's 23. She's trying to finish college. She's waiting tables at a pancake diner. On the subway she meets an impossibly good-looking girl with a leather jacket and a lot of mysterious charm who tells her that she smells like pancakes. Since it's a romance novel, they start to, uhm, like each other. But you know, the impossibly good-looking girl on the subway with a perfect leather jacket always has a secret and in this case, she's a punk lesbian from the 1970s who was August moves to New York. She's 23. She's trying to finish college. She's waiting tables at a pancake diner. On the subway she meets an impossibly good-looking girl with a leather jacket and a lot of mysterious charm who tells her that she smells like pancakes. Since it's a romance novel, they start to, uhm, like each other. But you know, the impossibly good-looking girl on the subway with a perfect leather jacket always has a secret and in this case, she's a punk lesbian from the 1970s who was displaced from her time and has been stuck on the Q for like, 45 years. August has to figure out how to get her off the Q before the Q closes for construction at the end of the summer, while also navigating college and a job and roommate stuff and life stuff and family stuff. There is not only romance, but coming-out angst, intergenerational gay shame, and revolutionary gay love. So you get summertime in New York + 20s-something angsty queer romance, a little mystery, a little bit of a broken space/time continuum, a lot of drag queens and brunch and a random psychic medium roommate. This is basically a perfect book, and I would follow Casey McQuiston into the sun.

Casey McQuiston LOVES their characters. You can tell they are as obsessed with them as we are. I am sure they could make each of their favorite play lists and tell you their favorite book when they were 19 and their favorite hang-over remedy and what their first pet was. That adoration shines through in every interaction and conversation. The banter feels legitimate. The 1970s/2020s queer New York settings feel earnest and lived in. Every kiss stops time. The whole book feels authentic, urgent, sexy, un-put-downable. This will rip a hole in the time/space continuum of your heart and then heal it.

The worst part of this book is that Casey McQuistion doesn’t have 50 more books in their back catalog for me to read. Write faster, Casey.

FURTHERMORE I loved the narrator of the audio book. Good job, you.

I received a free ARC of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and I also bought a copy of the audio book. All my opinions are my own. ...more

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Jun 18, 2021 Cari rated it liked it

Shelves: books-listened, popsugar-2021

So very cute. And also so refreshing to have two women at the center of a love story. The whole premise for how they meet and the subway (which I will not spoil at all) is a bit out there but if you just let it roll off your back, it’s a fun ride of eclectic characters and lots of warmth and good will.

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