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One Last Stop
by Casey McQuiston
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was such a fun read! I had heard mixed reviews coming into this, so I a little worried I wouldn't like it. However, it was very enjoyable. Especially since I really am not a big fan of the time-traveling trope. The writing was so so, but the relationships we read about was what I really liked.
We meet Jane pretty early into the book and watch her relationship with August grow. The plot was very medium-paced and kept me interested. There were a couple moments or plot-lines that I felt dragged on, and it didn't necessarily need to be there, but it didn't detract from the book or cause me to put it down.
If anything, the characterization is the best in this book. Our two main characters are very fleshed out and I think they grow so much together and we learn more and more about them as we go on. The author does an amazing job bringing depth to the side characters as well and making them feel three-dimensional, which a lot of books suffer from. August and Jane are very much insta-love like but their relationship grows and we don't see them actually fall in love until much later in the book.
The ending/conclusion didn't wrap up all neatly or in one chapter, and I loved the plot twist that the author pulled on us. I like the ambiguousness of the last chapter and it left me feeling very heart-warmed.
NOTE: There is an area in the book on PG 292 where August tells Jane that "most people aren't like that anymore" in the modern day when Jane is called a homophobic/racist slur. This isn't very reflective still of the world we live in and it's important to keep that in mind.
We meet Jane pretty early into the book and watch her relationship with August grow. The plot was very medium-paced and kept me interested. There were a couple moments or plot-lines that I felt dragged on, and it didn't necessarily need to be there, but it didn't detract from the book or cause me to put it down.
If anything, the characterization is the best in this book. Our two main characters are very fleshed out and I think they grow so much together and we learn more and more about them as we go on. The author does an amazing job bringing depth to the side characters as well and making them feel three-dimensional, which a lot of books suffer from. August and Jane are very much insta-love like but their relationship grows and we don't see them actually fall in love until much later in the book.
The ending/conclusion didn't wrap up all neatly or in one chapter, and I loved the plot twist that the author pulled on us. I like the ambiguousness of the last chapter and it left me feeling very heart-warmed.
NOTE: There is an area in the book on PG 292 where August tells Jane that "most people aren't like that anymore" in the modern day when Jane is called a homophobic/racist slur. This isn't very reflective still of the world we live in and it's important to keep that in mind.