And, as I recently read One Last Stop, the newest book from McQuiston, I found myself thinking about Something Borrowed for the first time in a while, because One Last Stop did something I've long-wanted in a romance book: It showed me a New York that I actually relate to. I'm glad I didn't outgrow the genre, though, especially since it's given me books like Casey McQuiston's New York Times bestseller Red, White & Royal Blue. The corporate jobs, Hamptons weekends, and frenemy storylines didn't reflect my day-to-day life, and though I'll always be grateful that Something Borrowed was my entry point to romance novels, I'm also glad I grew out of it. Casey McQuiston’s novel, One Last Stop, follows the story of August Landry after she moves to New York to finish her degree in sociology. It didn't take long for me to realize, though, that the very white, straight version of New Yorkers depicted in Giffin's pages was neither one with which I'd ever identify, nor was it one I was actually interested in experiencing in real life. For the next seven years, I read the New York City-set novel every summer until I actually moved there myself from Tennessee in the summer of 2015. I discovered it in high school after I borrowed it from my older sister and became instantly obsessed. 'McQuiston’s One Last Stop is an exquisite sophomore novel exploring love and its power to reach across time and space.
The first romance novel I ever read was Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin.
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