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My Review:Title: One Last Stop
Author: Casey McQuiston
Published by: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: June 1, 2021
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours and 10 minutes
Genres: LGBT, Romance, Contemporary Fantasy
Source: NetGalley, Libby
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Fall, Lenoreo's 2021 Diversity Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Cynical 23-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. 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.
But then, there’s Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane.
All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. 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. 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.
Casey 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.
4.5 stars — Quirky and fun and odd, but maybe a titch drawn out longer than I would have normally liked.
This was a new narrator for me, and she was solid. She had a lot of qualities that reminded me of some of my favourite narrators — solid different voices, great pacing and emotions. It was easy to follow and get sucked in.
The secondary cast of characters MADE this book. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the romance and the mystery and all that too. But if I were being honest, it was the cast that had me hooting and hollering and smiling and just enjoying the shit out of this book. Like, bump it up a half star loving. And there were so many, I don’t even know how to list them. They were all so quirky and fully realized — I could imagine them. I could imagine this found family that they had created. I wanted to be friends/family with them. And it wasn’t all fun and games for them, but they definitely added so much colour and life to the story. I legitimately laughed out loud multiple times, and I can pretty much always pin it down to the cast.
August: complicated. Insecure, and maybe a bit neurodivergent, and…well, complicated. She could be hella sweet, but she could also get wrapped up in herself and how things affected her, and I would want to smack her for not thinking about what other people were going through (mostly Jane).
Jane: also complicated. There was a lot going on with Jane, and even though we never got her POV, we got to see a lot of her through August. I loved getting to know her in bits and pieces. She definitely wasn’t perfect either, but I appreciated that she grew in the story as well.
They had a bit of an unconventional romance. It had cute crush moments, and eventually great steamy moments. I definitely enjoyed it, but I would say I was surprised at how I tended to enjoy other aspects of this story moreso…maybe because they took up more time/space?
I feel satisfied with the weird explanations for the non-real parts of the story. It wasn’t too important for it to be realistic, but I appreciated how we got some tie in with real world events (like the blackout, and even the New Orleans fire thingie).
So yeah. I’m super glad I listened to this one. I think there were enough different people and just a lot going on with the plot that it was nice to let someone else interpret the story for me and just take me on the ride. I can honestly say I didn’t guess much of anything, but nothing felt too far flung if that makes sense. I definitely feel like I enjoyed this one more than her debut, but that was partially because that one was too hyped up and so I had too high of expectations.
COYER Scavenger Hunt #25: Read a book with a form of transportation on the cover.
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