WNR – andrea's galley

“When you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”

Genre: Romance, LGBTQIA+
Actual Rating: 1.5 stars
Spicy Meter: 1.5 fire emojis because technically there was spicy stuff, but it happened mostly on the subway which is so disturbing.
Content Warnings: Describes homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, hate crimes, racism, death, car accident, suicide, classism and gentrification.

“One Last Stop” follows August Landry, a 23-year-old bisexual woman who just moved to New York City to run from her past. One day, on the subway, she runs into Jane Su, a wonderfully unique girl and immediately develops a crush. But when August asks Jane out, things get awkward. That is until August realizes Jane is actually stuck in time—has been since the 1970s. And so August will use all she’s learned from her past life to help Jane go back to her time—or get out of the subway in present day.

And really, “One Last Stop” had all the cards to make me fall in love with it: New York City? Check. Sapphic romance? Check. Shy main character? Check. Public transport crushes? Check.

Yet, I can’t even believe I finished this damn book. I found August and Jane’s relationship so weird. I’m sorry, but if I run into a subway crush that’s ‘stuck in time’? Hell no. I’m getting off that line and never getting on it again.

But it’s not only that. It’s not only that August got literally obsessed with Jane. No. The worst part of it all is that THEY HAVE SEX ON THE FREAKING SUBWAY. IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT. WHAT. THE. HELL. This book is unforgivable. I would rather die than have to read it again.

Which is weird, because I had never not liked a Casey McQuiston book. I am actually pretty upset her image of her will be tainted by this book in my mind. I can’t, in my right mind, recommend this book to anyone. God only knows why it has a 4+ stars rating in Goodreads. People are literally insane.

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Genre: Romance, Comedy
Actual Rating: 2 stars
Content Warnings: Sexual content, chronic illness, and medical content.

“99 Percent Mine” is the sophomore book by Sally Thorne and it follows Darcy Barrett, her twin brother Jamie Barrett, and their childhood friend Tom Valeska. Darcy is a young, free spirit that just wants to travel the world, although her heart’s a bit of an impediment to that. The Barrett twins have inherited their fortuneteller grandmother’s house and have to remodel and sell it, as per their grandmother’s will. So in comes Tom Valeska, Jamie’s best friend, and Darcy’s long-standing crush, who coincidentally is a contractor and house-flipper. This story pretty much told itself.

This wasn’t a comedy and it wasn’t even that much of a romance either. The characters seemed to be emotionally stunted, and the interactions between them were awkward and over-the-top in all the wrong ways. I like reading fiction books because they tell a story of something that I feel could potentially happen in real life, and this book wasn’t that.

I feel like I wasted my time reading this book but in the end, I think it was my bad because I grabbed it without checking any reviews. I blindly believed it would be amazing because Sally Thorne is amazing, but now I guess she is a hit-or-miss writer, like most other authors.

I would not recommend this book, but I would actually really highly recommend “The Hating Game” and “Second First Impressions”, which are the other two books by Sally Thorne and those two really are *chef’s kiss*.

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