hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about one last stop by casey mcquiston. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, i really wished i liked this book, but something just didn’t work for me with this book. i don’t really know what it was, but it just felt off. and i honestly really wished i liked this book more than i did, but i guess this just shows that i’m not a fan of time travel books.
trigger warnings- sexual content, homophobia, cursing, hate crime, grief, confinement, racism, death, drug use, alcohol, police brutality, lesbophobia, fire / fire injury, alcoholism, biphobia, panic attacks / disorder, vomit, abandonment, emotional abuse, violence, xenophobia, blood, car accident, murder, addiction, bullying, mental illness, misogyny.
as for characters, i honestly did not like august at all. like, i feel like everything that she did, if it was befriend someone or to help jane get out of the subway, felt like she was only doing it for herself. and like i feel like everything that happened for her was just way to coinvent, with jane being connected to august’s uncle and also how she didn’t work for like a month or some ridiculous amount of time but she still somehow covered rent for the month/months, and that she never got fired from her job, cause at that point she probably should have been. and i mean, i feel like she was just doing everything that she did for herself, which i didn’t like at all.
but, also the romance in this book felt very white saviory to me. like, it was one thing if it had some white savior plot in an older book or that this is an historical romance or something, i think that this book just shouldn’t have had it. like, i think that it was just so crazy that they put it in this book. and it just rubbed me the wrong way that august was this key to get jane to help jane to figure out what happened in our past. and also if they are connected in the way, with jane being connected to august’s past, it just felt weird, especially with them investigating why jane is stuck on the train, even though august didn’t ever want to investigate anything like that ever again.
as for jane as a character, i feel like they honestly didn’t feel right. like, for one, i feel like she was just so one sided. like, not in a good way, i feel like we only got told about her past, which i guess is all we can know about it. but, i feel like they were someone that was all kind off showy. but, i think that they just didn’t vibe at all. and i mean, i think that we knew nothing about her, and i overall feel like that they used jane as one of those characters who are just used as sex or something, so i feel like it was just so weird.
and honestly, i never really connected with these characters. i feel like they were just so one dimensional, and i feel like they were just so stupid and i feel like they had no personalities besides like the stupid little things. like, jane liked punk rock music and than jane moved to new york from the south and that her uncle is dead. and i feel like we didn’t know if they were sarcastic or shy or funny etc. and i feel like they should have had something more.
with that being said, i honestly didn’t like when jane and august fucked on the subway. like, that was so gross and i feel like it was stupid to see them do this in public, and which is more gross that they are doing it on a new york city subway. and i feel like fucking and having my bare butt on the door, it is honestly so gross and i honestly wished they just didn’t have sex when they were stuck on the subway since it was just so gross and who knows what lives in there.
but, i also feel like the pacing of this book was not good. like, i feel like that the chapters were just so so long, that i feel like i would read one chapter of this book and i feel like i’ve read half the book when it’s only been like 2% of this book. and i feel with the chapters being so good, i feel like they honestly just distract you from the story since you are focused on the chapters, instead of being more focused on the story. i honestly wish that they are shorter and than more chapters, i feel like it would work, but i guess that is just my opinion. and like i feel with these chapters being so long, i feel like it just took away from the story since so much would be happening in this same chapter.
and i also feel like there was a very weird pacing issue with this book. like, i feel like there was so much plot about everything and everything took so long with everything in the start of the book, but than i think that as it got closer and closer to the end, i feel like the pacing got messed up again. and i feel like it was just fixed and that they just changed it. but, i do think it was fixed, but than again, i feel like they just didn’t know what to do with the plot so the pacing got all messed up.
but, i also do really like to see the side characters in this book. but, like i think they were just so cool and that they had so much cool things going on in their life and just so fun and cool. i honestly think they were so cool, and i wish we got told more about them and them doing their basic day to day things. but, i feel like we did get to see august talking to them about basic things, which i also didn’t really care for and i thought it was just kind of boring. and just the found family vibes were so cool.
anyway, that is all for today! i really wished i liked this book and i wished i feel like this story just made more sense, and that they would have fixed a couple things. but, i do liked red, white, and royal blue more, and i feel like it was just so cool.
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