One Last Stop
by Casey McQuiston
Narrated by Natalie Naudus
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A girl unstuck in time on a New York subway shouldn't work as a love story — and yet here you are, missing your stop.
- Great if you want: queer romance wrapped in magical realism and found-family warmth
- Listening experience: cozy and slow-burn with genuine NYC ensemble energy
- Narration: Naudus balances August's sharp cynicism against the story's tenderness perfectly
- Skip if: time-travel logic holes will frustrate you more than the romance
About This Audiobook
August moves to New York convinced that magic doesn't exist and has made peace with that. Jane is a gorgeous stranger on the Q train who is technically stuck in 1977, displaced in time and unable to leave the subway line where she's been trapped for decades. Casey McQuiston's second novel is a queer romance that takes the time-displacement premise completely seriously as a structural metaphor for being unable to fully inhabit the present — and as a practical problem August needs to solve using everything in her particular, complicated past.
Natalie Naudus narrates with the warm energy the book's considerable charm demands — her August is both more guarded and more optimistic than she admits, and her rendering of the subway world, with its recurring cast of passengers and employees, gives the supernatural romance a deeply grounded location. Goodreads Choice Award winner for Romance. At just over 12 hours, One Last Stop delivers on its unusual premise with genuine feeling.
