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One Last Stop is a 2021 LGBT romance novel written by American author Casey McQuiston. The novel is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman she meets on a subway named Jane Su, a punk lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway. [1]
One Last Stop is Casey McQuiston's second published novel. In terms of the time travel aspect of the book, McQuiston was inspired by the television series Outlander . [2] In an interview for Insider they said they were inspired to set the story on a subway because they see "public transit as a liminal space where your life crosses paths with another person's life like five million times for half a second." [2]
August Landry is a bisexual 23-year-old woman who moves to New York City in order to forget her old life. She is very cynical and is determined to leave everyone from her old life behind. August is a closed-off individual who does not believe in love or friendship. She is also looking to move on from her mother's obsessive search for her missing uncle which has consumed all of August's life. In New York City, she finds queer roommates and gets a job at a restaurant called Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes. On her way to take college classes, she bumps into a woman, Jane, on the subway and develops a crush. As the two get to know each other, Jane reveals that she only knows her name because it was written on the inside of her jacket and that she is actually from the 1970s. August must unearth her detective skills and find a way to get Jane back to her time as well as save Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes from gentrification, all while learning to be open to people.
Following in the footsteps of their first book, Red, White & Royal Blue , One Last Stop has received positive reviews. [3] [4] NPR writes that "One Last Stop is an electrifying romance that synapses into the dreamy 'Hot Person Summer' kind of story you wish you were a part of." [3] Kirkus Reviews speaks to the aspects of the book that highlight the Queer community, writing "every scene that takes place with August’s chosen family of friends crackles with electricity, warmth, and snappy pop-culture references, whether they’re at a charmingly eccentric 24-hour pancake diner or a drag queen brunch." [4]
One Last Stop was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards for best romance novel of 2021 where it placed 3rd. [5] [6] The book has also been placed sixth in the Bookpage top ten romance novels of 2021. [7]
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