One Last Stop, by Casey McQuisition
Jul. 20th, 2021 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
booksinmyhouseGenre: Romance with some supernatural elements
How it got in my house: Library hold request, made before I started this blog
Recommend: For queer romance full of found family; when you want to read about pre-COVID joys like "parties" and "going to favorite restaurants"
I drank One Last Stop like I'm drinking water on these hot summer days. It was compulsively readable, and I had to find out what happened next. This is a sweet tale of opening up, finding found family, city living, and queer joy. Casey McQuisition also seems to be filling the very specific literary niche of "what if that terrible thing that just happened to the country...didn't happen," first with Red, White, and Royal Blue and the presence of a competent Democrat president, now with One Last Stop, a book all about New York City in 2020 with no COVID. Thus, this book has lots of parties, and gatherings, and meeting new people...all those things that happened in a pre-pandemic world. It was fun, but it also made me wistful and nostalgic. Even though the parties in this book are much larger and seem much more fun than any party I have ever been to. But "makes you nostalgic for a place that you've never been" is one of the special things books can do.
One Last Stop is a good fanfiction-y love story, with Kissing For Research, boatloads of pining, and found family. Putting together the pieces of Jane's backstory is very satisfying, as is seeing August learn to open up to others. A comforting read all around.
Lifetime blog tally:
Number of books read: 6
Net change in unread books in my house: +2
How it got in my house: Library hold request, made before I started this blog
Recommend: For queer romance full of found family; when you want to read about pre-COVID joys like "parties" and "going to favorite restaurants"
I drank One Last Stop like I'm drinking water on these hot summer days. It was compulsively readable, and I had to find out what happened next. This is a sweet tale of opening up, finding found family, city living, and queer joy. Casey McQuisition also seems to be filling the very specific literary niche of "what if that terrible thing that just happened to the country...didn't happen," first with Red, White, and Royal Blue and the presence of a competent Democrat president, now with One Last Stop, a book all about New York City in 2020 with no COVID. Thus, this book has lots of parties, and gatherings, and meeting new people...all those things that happened in a pre-pandemic world. It was fun, but it also made me wistful and nostalgic. Even though the parties in this book are much larger and seem much more fun than any party I have ever been to. But "makes you nostalgic for a place that you've never been" is one of the special things books can do.
One Last Stop is a good fanfiction-y love story, with Kissing For Research, boatloads of pining, and found family. Putting together the pieces of Jane's backstory is very satisfying, as is seeing August learn to open up to others. A comforting read all around.
Lifetime blog tally:
Number of books read: 6
Net change in unread books in my house: +2
