![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and I am fully in love with all three of them and the found family depicted in this book is so heartwarmingly perfect, I promise you! There are even more side characters who will easily steal your heart, too, and there is also a big emphasis on New York’s drag scene, and how queer people of color are still paving the way in 2020. ➽ Myla – queer Black electrical engineer turned artist (has an adoptive Chinese mom, who really added to the story so beautifully to me, so I am mentioning it here too!) ➽ Niko – trans Latino psychic (good) bartender (not so good) At the start of this story, she has made it to New York where is she going to finish her degree, and thanks to a questionably placed looking-for-roommates advertisement in a Popeyes she starts to feel like maybe she could eventually call this city and these roommates home. Her whole life, her mother has expected her to assist in solving a missing person case from the 70s, but August just wants to find herself, her own way, and wants to feel like she finally belongs somewhere. One Last Stop is a story about a twenty-three-year-old bi girl named August who has moved from university to university, state to state, looking for a place that will feel like a home she has never known. So when I tell you that I ignored every single ARC I needed to read and review before this one for the next eight months, I say that with my whole chest because there was no way I could stop myself once it hit my kindle. But then when they announced their next book would be sapphic Kate & Leopold, with an Asian love interest? Be still, my entire heart and soul. Casey’s prose, characters, romance, banter, and (obviously) themes were everything to me, and I knew that they would take the book world by storm with their expectation-shattering debut. I was able to get a very early ARC of it, and I fell so deeply in love with this alternate reality I so desperately wanted to live in as a queer biracial with a hopeless romantic heart. Red, White & Royal Blue was one of my favorite books of 2019. "August doesn’t believe in most things, but it’s hard to argue that Jane wasn’t put on the Q to fuck up her whole life." Casey’s prose, characters, romance, banter, and (obviou ![]() "August doesn’t believe in most things, but it’s hard to argue that Jane wasn’t put on the Q to fuck up her whole life." Red, White & Royal Blue was one of my favorite books of 2019. ( ARC provided by Goodreads - thank you so much!) 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.Ĭasey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. 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. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. Beautiful, impossible Jane.Īll hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. CASEY MCQUISTON ONE LAST STOP FULLAnd 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.īut then, there’s Jane. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date and Party for TwoĬynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or fi 12 hours and 10 minutes 12 hours and 10 minutes "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. ![]()
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