![]() ![]() The banter is hilarious, the romance is electric (pun intended), the character voices are clear and sharp. If you’ve read Red, White & Royal Blue, you already know how captivating Casey McQuiston’s writing is. In true rom-com style, everyone feels both larger-than-life yet entirely realistic, as they occupy a world that feels like our own but with maybe a touch more magic. In One Last Stop, you’ll meet quite a few other character to fall in love with, including August’s roommates, the drag queen across the hall, her coworkers at the diner where she works, and more. I know the recipe calls for a runny egg, but I don’t like runny eggs, so I’ll be cooking mine a little longer. Oh look, bacon is done! Time to set it aside and fry an egg in all that leftover bacon grease. I am reduced to a string of heart-eye emojis anytime I think about her. Like the sandwich named after her, Jane is a contradiction of flavors: sweet and sharp mixed together and somehow complementing each other perfectly. #ONE LAST STOP REVIEW HOW TO#She doesn’t really know what it feels like to have a place to belong-and people to belong to-so when she starts to find that in the city, she has no idea how to handle it.Īnd Jane! You know when you read a romance novel and find yourself falling a little bit in love with the love interest because you’re reading them through the POV character’s eyes? Yeah, that definitely happened to me with Jane. Prickly, slow to trust, and even slower to allow herself to hope, she expects to let New York swallow her up. ![]() I’ve mentioned August already, but I really cannot emphasize enough to you how much I love her (and relate to her to an almost painful degree). At this point, if you’re working with frozen Texas toast like I am, I’d recommend sticking it in the oven on a low heat to give the insides plenty of time to warm up. Pretty straightforward on this one, folks-just let it sizzle away until it’s reached your preferred level of crispiness. With that thought, let’s move over to the stovetop and start frying our bacon. Maybe it’s just the magic of a big city and a romance that feels even bigger, powerful enough to transcend time.Īlso, I never thought a book could make me miss the New York subway, but here we are. Maybe it’s the cast of eclectic characters that we meet, including the little found family that August creates within her apartment. Maybe it’s because I read it at the perfect time in my life, since I am, like August, twenty-three and a little adrift and feeling like everyone else has it figured out more than I do. This is one of those books that is impossible to put a finger on what about it makes it so special. Then she meets a girl on the subway - a beautiful, magnetic, mysterious girl who makes August care more than she wants to…and who might, in fact, be displaced in time from the ‘70s. ![]() In One Last Stop, we meet cynical August, who moves to New York hoping to let herself disappear. In case you don’t already know, allow me to tell you a little about the book. You can’t have a Su Special without meeting Jane Su herself, after all. This last ingredient may not seem essential in this process, but I assure you that it is.
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