One Last Stop – Casey McQuiston

This book had the magic that Red, White and Royal Blue had. Let’s get into the review.

The book in short
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’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.
But then, there’s 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’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s 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’s time to start believing in some things, after all. I got this information, here.

My thoughts
From start to finish it was absolutely brilliant. I loved it very much, I loved every character and I couldn’t stop thinking how wonderful it was while reading. I was very much enjoying myself. When we meet Jane I think she is fab right away. Throughout the book, I do not know who I loved more Jane or August. I think I love them both, I am rooting for them.

They do all these activities to make Jane remember and then she remembers and then a new part begins almost. This was the type of time-travel story that I enjoyed. The only thing I didn’t like was the explicit scene in the middle of the book. The scene itself is fine but it takes place in the subway. The idea of doing anything in a dirty subway is too much, it took me out of it. I do get that it couldn’t have taken place anywhere else but the whole setting was a bit much for me.

This author puts things in that become important later and it gives my brain time to come up with all these scenarios and what they could mean. It’s such an interesting reading experience I love that we always find out, there is never a loss of treath but at the time that we do not know I find the exercise of making up ideas so fun to do. It makes the story very engaging which I like. The characters are very well-rounded characters, they all have back stories and lives and you feel as if you are meeting a whole community of people. This book was wonderful and I absolutely recommend it.