I ate One Last Stop alive: 417 pages in about twenty-four hours. The novel pulls some of its punches about how sad that is for Jane, but it certainly does a wonderful job of making Jane’s new life seem appealing. She isn’t sent back to the 1970s, but sticks around in the year 2020 (a year 2020 without a pandemic), which means that she and August can continue their relationship together. The science of the time travel is handwaved to hell, but the energy of the heist is spot-on, and Jane is rescued. They all band together to help Jane escape the subway, which involves a complicated subway-heist plot that’s tied up in an effort to save Billy’s from being bought up by gentrifiers. Niko, Myla, and Wes, who are all invested in August and her love life, become friends with Jane, too. They care enough about each other that when they have a fight about two-thirds of the way into the book, it feels earned, and so does the resolution that comes after. They learn from each other, and when one of them is nervous the other one tries to help. August is practical and blunt and sharp, but so is Jane, in a different way. Again, and again, and again.Ībout halfway through the book, they admit that they’re kissing for real, which means the book has room to explore their relationship after they’ve both agreed to be in one. Jane’s kissed a lot of girls, and this means August gets kissed a lot of times. Eventually, August and Jane realize they can unlock memories through kissing.
August spots a photo of Jane on the wall at Billy’s, which means she was an employee there, and brings Jane food and music from her time in New York in order to unlock further memories of her past. But once she does, August is a goner, for Jane and her case both. It takes a few chance encounters with Jane for August to even get Jane to admit that she’s stuck. She doesn’t even know how long she’s been on the Q. Jane, who’s been trapped on the Q train since the 1970s, remembers nothing about her old life, and needs August’s help.Īt first, Jane doesn’t know her own last name.
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Jane, who’s been everywhere and seen everything, and knows how to start a dance party on the train with a cassette player and a grin.
One Last Stop is about these relationships, but, oh yes, it’s also about the extraordinarily hot butch named Jane Su, who August meets on the Q train one day. (The novel does eventually resolve this, in a way I won’t spoil here.) Once August settles in, though, she begins making friends with her roommates by accident, and with her fellow employees at Billy’s, the 24-hour pancake house where she finds a part-time job. She’s spent her life helping her single mother, who’s spent decades obsessed with solving the mystery of how her brother-August’s uncle Augie-disappeared, and whether or not he’s still alive. But she moves into the apartment with Niko the literal psychic, Myla the sculptor cum electrical engineer, and Wes the tattoo artist recluse.
Call Niko.” August is skeptical, but she doesn’t have much of a choice: she’s just moved to Brooklyn from outside New Orleans with almost no money and a college degree to finish. Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop begins with August Landry answering an apartment ad taped on a trash can.
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