At 23, August Landry moves to Brooklyn with few belongings but heaps of emotional baggage from a childhood spent helping her conspiracy theorist mother work to track down a long-missing relative. McQuiston's joyful sophomore romp mixes all the elements that made Red, White & Royal Blue so outstanding quirky characters, coming-of-age confusion, laugh-out-loud narration, and hilarious pop-cultural references ("Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out") into something totally its own. Whether you read One Last Stop on your commute or by the pool, you’ll be captivated by this story of a skeptic-turned-believer falling in love for the first time. Hot on the heels of her breakout hit Red, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston’s dreamy fantasy is filled with awesome pop-culture references about everything from House Hunters to vintage punk rock, not to mention unforgettable characters like the lovable drag-queen-next-door Annie Depressants. We were all in on August and Jane’s love story, but we fell even harder when things got extremely paranormal. Just when she’s starting to feel at ease with her quirky new life, August meets Jane, a sexy Asian American musician who somehow seems to always be in the same subway car as her. Lonely grad student August has just moved to Brooklyn, where she’s landed a crummy waitress job and reluctantly settled in with three wacky roommates. "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Twoīelieve it or not, this romantic comedy will make you want to take public transportation. "A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart." - Time Magazine, "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021" Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.Ĭasey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks.įor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone.
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