One Last Stop
Trigger warnings: missing persons, anti-gay sentiment
August, a 23-year-old waitress, finds quirky roommates and love in NYC.
August is a 23-year-old bisexual virgin from Louisiana who moves to New York City. She's lived in many other cities for college, and none of them felt right. She finds an apartment with quirky roommates including an optimistic and artsy engineer, a trans psychic, and an emotionally unavailable gay tattoo artist. She fudges the truth of her experience to land a waitress job at a 24-hour diner.
August is named after her lost uncle who disappeared in the late 70s. Her mother filled August's life with the investigation into finding her long-lost brother. August has issues with her weight and her relationship with her mother. She's in NYC to go to yet another college and doesn't know what to do with herself if she ever finishes. She's had several majors and can't commit to one.
On the way to Brooklyn College on the Q train, she meets a girl named Jane who enchants her. Through several other meetings, she begins to have feelings for Jane. But Jane is more than she seems... August finds that Jane is stuck on the Q and can't remember how long she's been there.
August bonds with Jane over trying to figure out how Jane is stuck on the Q train, and why she hasn't aged since the mid-70s. The unofficial detective training from her mother proves to be useful with piecing Jane's life together one memory at a time.
Because Jane and her Uncle Auggie both disappeared in the mid to late 70s, August also has to deal with her feelings about her lost uncle. August also must wrestle with the desire to keep Jane in the present while trying to help her return to her own time.
Recommended for romance readers, especially those who like diverse romances or a hint of the supernatural.
Casey McQuiston is a native Southerner living in New York City.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (print); Macmillan Audio
Narrator: Natalie Naudus
Running Time: 12 hours, 10 minutes
Length: 432 pages
Release Date: June 1, 2021
I received an electronic audio recording of this title from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.