Emily Vance Brown

by Casey McQuiston

4/5

I’m a few weeks late posting my review for this one!

I read One Last Stop at the beginning of summer, about a month before I left Austin for New York. This book is a romance, time travel novel, and love letter to the NYC public transportation system all in one, and its heavy-handed over-romanticization of the subway system is just what I needed before my big move. 

I always prefer a romance with a non-romantic primary plot, and the time travel elements of One Last Stop did not disappoint. Jane’s trapped existence on the Q train is just mystical enough to make me desperate to know more, and, by the end of the book, is explained just well enough and simply enough to make me say “sure, why the hell not?” Don’t get me wrong—this novel is first and foremost a cheesy, sappy, romance, so I wouldn’t exactly recommend it to a family member or a snobby literary critic. For anyone else, though, I highly recommend it!