It features a fair bit of adult content (yes, including sex scenes). One more thing before I get into it: like RWRB, OLS is an adult/new adult romance (characters aged 23-27). As always with content warnings, there are mild-to-moderate spoilers in here, so proceed with caution if you’d rather go in spoiler-free. I’ve divided this list of content warnings into things that actually feature on the page in the book and things that are recounted or discussed on-page but happened long before August and Jane’s story. All of these things carry our characters through to their happy endings, and they have hundreds of moments of being loved and deliriously happy in between. Specifically, it’s a queer romantic comedy, and like every queer person’s story, it’s complicated.

A lot of her journey in this book is about rediscovering those memories, which means we hear about some ugly moments in the past.īy no means does any of this diminish the joy of OLS. Jane Su (the love interest of the book) is a Chinese American butch lesbian who spent her twenties in the gay, punk, and anti-war scenes of the 1970s, and those experiences shaped who she is. It’s also about queer communities past and present, how we find homes in one another, and the things we struggle with-now and throughout history. ONE LAST STOP is a joyful, messy story about falling in the kind of love that breaks the laws of time. 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 an epic, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. 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 her 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. 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.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. Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much.

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