Mel's Reviews > One Last Stop

** spoiler alert ** *Updated with review*

It makes me so sad that I didn't enjoy this as much as I wanted to! This was one of my most anticipated releases of 2021 but I had a few issues with it.

We stumble, yet again, onto eternal chapters. I encountered this same issue in Red, White and Royal Blue but these felt even longer (I'm talking 30[+] pages at a time). This contributed to the scenes feeling choppy and the transitions being out of place which led to the story feeling very disjointed.

Then we have the characters, sadly I did not care for anyone else besides Jane. The psychic's guy whole personality being only the "psychicness" was something I didn't enjoy. I personally felt like it was overwritten and just put into the book because that's hip and in and people have taken such a big liking to it. On the flip side, Myla annoyed me half the time and the other half she was mildly funny because she was written that way.

Which brings me to my other issue, these characters were given no room to be themselves. Everything fell into a position of convenience for August and it was deliberately done that way on the author's end. They don't stand on their own nor have a life of their own. The romance felt incredibly one sided to me as well and I was a little uncomfortable reading it. Yes, their chemistry was good and yes, they had their cute moments. But it definitely came across as August being way more into Jane than equally into each other.

Also, Jane's story being so connected to August's was a little off to me? I don't know, I can go into a whole other rant about the white person being the POC's salvation but... yeah not the day for that🥲

I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting as I type this up but I'm sure they'll come up in my monthly wrap up.