LOVE LOVE LOVE this book and premise! I have used the scene from the airplane to multiple book clubs to allow them to gage how they would respond if this happened to them.

Liane Moriarty is one of the authors whose entire backlist I binged while I was getting back into reading. I love her work, and Here One Moment was no exception. I wouldn’t call this a thriller, but there’s SO much suspense as the reader is anxious to find out whether Cherry’s predictions will come true.

After the flight scene, the book is written as an ensemble, flashing to each main character’s life. I enjoyed every POV, but Cherry, Leo, and Timmy’s mom were my favorites. The stories were woven together beautifully, and I loved when the characters’ lives crossed paths whether they knew it or not.

Although on the longer side, this book flew by. I listened to the audiobook before I received my copy, and this did not feel like 500+ pages! I’m so glad I got the chance to read an early copy of Here One Moment, and definitely recommend adding it to your fall TBR.

I give this book a hesitant 4 stars, but for someone with anxiety or trauma around death and dying, it could be much lower.

How much of our fate is predetermined? This is the question HERE ONE MOMENT asks. When a woman on a flight goes person to person predicting of what and when they'll die, the world seizes on the spectacle. But is she a real psychic? Does she have the power to make these predictions? And can the people she predicted change their futures?

The book follows several of the people who receive predictions, from dying of old age to children dying of drowning. It's dual timeline and shows how the predictor became the person she was on that flight.

Overall, I would recommend this book. It was well-written and thought provoking (even if that thought was memento mori). I would recommend people know what it's about before diving in, however, because it's quite different from Moriarty's other books.

Wow, this was an absolute 5 star book for me. The best Moriarty has had in a few years.

The beginning of the book was so shocking and immediately sucked me in. I knew from then that this was going to be a book I wouldn't want to set down.

What I loved about this was that we got to follow not only the woman that made the predictions but also the others on the plane. I for one, was so invested on what would happen to these people.

Can you change the future? That is the question here..

Loved and highly recommend.

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?

Liane Moriarty is a little hit-or-miss for me, and this one was a hit. Great atmosphere, intriguing mystery, and well-developed characters make this an excellent mystery/thriller. I would definitely recommend this one.

A great suspenseful book that captures the random lives of strangers all tied together based on one strange event. Each person touched becomes a story in itself and it is amazing how it all comes together in the end.

This was just a simple concept, what would you do if you knew the day you were going to die? How would you react or behave? The concept, good but the simple concept was just turned into a way too long and too many cast of characters story. I felt at times that something would happen and I would be so invested. Then it felt like a weird stream of consciousness would happen and I’d find my interest waning again. I love Liana’s books but this one just didn’t work for me,

While the book started out a little slow for me, it picked up steam quickly and I was hooked! As always Liane delivers a beautiful, complex, intriguing story.

A woman named Cherry is on a delayed plane flight and begins walking up and down the aisle of the plane telling each passenger when they will die and their cause of death. Passenger reactions vary from entertained to annoyed, but nobody thinks anything of it until the first death she predicted happens exactly as she said.

The book is a non-linear timeline that jumps back and forth between Cherry's life before the incident on the plane and after. The story also moves between the passengers on the plane. The book examines the question of what would you do if you knew when you were going to die.

Liane Moriarty always writes a page-turning book and this one was no exception. There are a lot of characters in the book and at times I had difficulty differentiating between them.

Read this as an ARC… I found the story lines with so many characters to be a little scattered but the overall message of the book was uplifting. I usually finish books in about 2-3 days and this one took about three weeks. Really unsure why but just didn’t do it for me.

It definitely had a lot of potential and I did enjoy the deep rich character building of Cherry (the main character) but because there were so many other characters it was harder to develop all of them as much as I was hoping for.

Liane Moriarty did it again. This book is so engrossing. I laughed I cried I loved it. It tells the story of fighting fate and accepting life the way it unfolds.

I was an absolute slut for this book. I absolutely loved it and couldn’t stop thinking about it! I hope very much that this gets made into a limited series!

I listened to this on audio.
What an interesting thought provoking book. I liked it a lot. At first I kept wondering where it was going with the story but with only 3 hours to go I 1) didn’t want it to end and 2) couldn’t wait to see where the story would go and how it would end.
Lots of great quotes and just an interesting way to look at life and how that little seed put into your brain can affect the way you think and live.

This book left me with some questions...

-if you knew what year you were going to die, would you do things differently?
-if you had the opportunity to know when and how you were going to die, would you want to know?

I had never really thought about these questions until I picked up this book. I love when a book has such a unique concept like this that it affects me outside of the fictional world. One of the main characters struggles with this a lot, and I won't share anything else, but it has lead me to think the same things. I might be on the unpopular side, but I do think I would want to know! & there are a few things I would do differently, but I'll keep those to myself. I will say, this book has really shown me how we should prioritize doing those important things because we never truly do know when our time will run out.

Anyways, on to the review!!

Synopsis:
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all. How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable. A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.

This book was SO good! I can see why its been voted so highly already.

I was hooked from the very beginning. I really enjoyed how the story started right in the action. There are multiple POVs for multiple characters, and it keeps the story line interesting. It did fall a little short in the middle for me as I felt like I wanted to skimm over Cherry's chapters and was just waiting and waiting for one of the predictions to come true.

One thing that really bothered me was that the chapters didn't state whose POV we were reading. I had to read a few lines or so before I figured it out. It was very frustrating and is the sole reason why I couldn't rate this 5 stars. I did at one point switch to the audiobook which was done much better because of the changing voices.

Overall it was a fantastic story! I think this one is going to be at the top of all of the yearly wrap up lists. It is a great choice for book clubs too.

This book has had some mixed reviews but personally, I loved it. The concept was interesting and I liked following the characters. It would have been cool to go into the mental state of more characters but still great!

I received this e-book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley and the author/publisher for the copy!

We are taken through the life of mainly Cherry, whose mother was a fortune teller. One day while Cherry is traveling on a plane, she starts telling people their age of death and cause of death. Her predictions varied from people living long, to 6 passengers not living much longer. As passengers start to die, the others are getting worried about their time and if her predictions will be correct. We are taken through a few of those passengers lives and see how and if the predictions from " the Death Lady" come true or if/how they try to change their individual predictions.

Whenever I hear of a Liane Moriarty book that I haven't read, I know I must read it! Liane does a great job of giving each character a different voice, even though there are always several characters you need to keep track of! I really enjoyed this one! If you enjoy the multiple character stories of Liane Moriarty, this one is just as good as the rest of them!

What if you knew when and how you were going to die? When your children would die? What would you do if you found out you had less than a year left to live?

Those on a jam packed flight are all given predictions for age and cause of death and when those predictions start coming true, those on board begin questioning their mortality! Should Leo quit his job because he was predicted to die in a workplace accident by his next birthday? Calm mannered Ethan is predicted to die by assault and flight attendant Allegra is predicted to die by self harm. How can they alter their fate?

And, who was the woman on board who made the predictions? Those on the flight are desperate to find her and see if she is a legitimate psychic!

Here One Moment was an interesting story with enjoyable, well balanced characters! The story lost some of it's intrigue with it's slow pace but for those who like a slow burn, this is a good choice! Moriatory will keep you guessing what will come of the characters that you'll grow to love!

Thank you Netgalley and Crown Publishing for this E-ARC in exchange for an honest review!

While I enjoyed this book it did seem to drag out a bit. It was interesting to read about how the various characters faced their own mortality. I particularly enjoyed the revealed connections between characters that added depth to the story. It’s an unusual premise for a book and I thought it was worth the read!

I received a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I have mixed feelings about this novel. I liked how this was more of a character driven story that followed multiple people after a specific incident. I appreciated I got to know each character, and loved how everything came together and wrapped up. However, the story seemed drawn out, and it was hard to keep track of everyone.

This was lovely. A bit anticlimactic, but beautiful. Solid 4 star read. Suspenseful and intriguing. Moriarty delivers again!