One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

Jun 2021 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Natalie Naudus

About this audiobook

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*

"Narrator Natalie Naudus brings a quiet intensity to this genre-crossing audiobook...the perfect fit for a tale of queer joy, first love, and self-discovery." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...

For 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. 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. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.

But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.

Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. 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. 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. 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. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.

Casey 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.

"A dazzling romance, filled with plenty of humor and heart." - Time Magazine, "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2021"

"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 Two

Ratings and reviews

this is the best book in the world to me. i have three copies (audio, paperback first edition, hardback collectors edition) and i constantly find myself gravitating back to the new york subways and billy's and the apartment in flatbush. all the moments that wrecked me emotionally the first time still wreck me a million rereads later, all the jokes land just as hard, no words can capture the love i have for one last stop. it reminded me during pandemic times how important community and personal connections with other people are. it's honestly a part of my personality at this point. also, i'm very picky about audiobook narrators, there's almost always some mispronunciation or weird choice in character voices that breaks my immersion, but natalie naudus consistently delivers a perfect performance

I loved this!! How do you love someone so much you would risk your life to set them free? August and Jane put their hearts and bodies on the line to find each other. From the begining to the end I routed for these two. The cast of strange outcast Brooklynites rounds out the friendship group that teams up to help their friends. The "heist" is a real caper and left me anxious to find out what would happen. It seems like the author can write a touching love story; no matter the setting. Just like RWRB the lovers are unabashedly erotic and loving.

4.5 stars — Quirky and fun and odd, but maybe a titch drawn out longer than I would have normally liked. This was a new narrator for me, and she was solid. She had a lot of qualities that reminded me of some of my favourite narrators — solid different voices, great pacing and emotions. It was easy to follow and get sucked in. The secondary cast of characters MADE this book. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the romance and the mystery and all that too. But if I were being honest, it was the cast that had me hooting and hollering and smiling and just enjoying the heck out of this book. Like, bump it up a half star loving. And there were so many, I don’t even know how to list them. They were all so quirky and fully realized — I could imagine them. I could imagine this found family that they had created. I wanted to be friends/family with them. And it wasn’t all fun and games for them, but they definitely added so much colour and life to the story. I legitimately laughed out loud multiple times, and I can pretty much always pin it down to the cast. August: complicated. Insecure, and maybe a bit neurodivergent, and…well, complicated. She could be hella sweet, but she could also get wrapped up in herself and how things affected her, and I would want to smack her for not thinking about what other people were going through (mostly Jane). Jane: also complicated. There was a lot going on with Jane, and even though we never got her POV, we got to see a lot of her through August. I loved getting to know her in bits and pieces. She definitely wasn’t perfect either, but I appreciated that she grew in the story as well. They had a bit of an unconventional romance. It had cute crush moments, and eventually great steamy moments. I definitely enjoyed it, but I would say I was surprised at how I tended to enjoy other aspects of this story moreso…maybe because they took up more time/space? I feel satisfied with the weird explanations for the non-real parts of the story. It wasn’t too important for it to be realistic, but I appreciated how we got some tie in with real world events (like the blackout, and even the New Orleans fire thingie). So yeah. I’m super glad I listened to this one. I think there were enough different people and just a lot going on with the plot that it was nice to let someone else interpret the story for me and just take me on the ride. I can honestly say I didn’t guess much of anything, but nothing felt too far flung if that makes sense. I definitely feel like I enjoyed this one more than her debut, but that was partially because that one was too hyped up and so I had too high of expectations.

About the author

Casey McQuiston is the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue, as well as a pie enthusiast. She writes books about smart people with bad manners falling in love. Born and raised in southern Louisiana, she now lives in New York City with her poodle mix and personal assistant, Pepper.