✈️Book Review✈️
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Summary- The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers.
 
There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .
 
Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. Some dismiss her. Others will do everything they can to make sure her prophecies do not come to pass. All of them will be forever changed.
 
How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job?
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Rating- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
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My thoughts- wow what a unique and wild premise ! I really enjoyed this one, it is totally unlike anything I have ever read. Unfortunately there were just a bit too many characters to remember and follow (but I was invested in all of them). This one reminded me a bit of The Measure in all the best ways possible. This is a definitely a book that will stick with me for a while. Highly recommend this wild read from one of my go to authors !
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QOTD- have you ever read any liane moriarty or seen any of the adaptations of her works ? I’ve read almost everything by her !
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I've been a fan of Liane Moriarty since before she became big and popular. I quickly devoured this book. This book is a movie - or a mini-series in the making. It reminds me in a way of "Final Destination", where you ending is predicted and you're trying to prevent it. This book is full of suspense. It kept me reading past my bedtime, but it wasn't one that scared me so much I couldn't sleep. Most definitely recommend!

This is my favorite Liane Moriarty book yet with such a creative and interesting plot. If you could find out the circumstances before your death, would you? And would this alter how you chose to live your life. This book had me wondering how I would react to the situations these characters were put in and was a great reminder to live life to the fullest. Do not pass this one up!
Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for an advanced readers copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Liane Moriarty's "Here One Moment" kicks off with a wild premise: a mysterious woman on a flight drops a bombshell on several passengers by predicting the date and cause of their deaths. Naturally, everyone brushes her off as a complete nutjob. But then… one of her predictions actually comes true. And then another. Suddenly, the same people who wrote her off as "crazy" are heeding her words as if they are prophecies. So, if you knew when and how you were going to die, how would that change your life?

Moriarty weaves thought-provoking scenarios into the plot of her book and it makes you wonder. Would I go all-in on cancer treatment if I knew that's what's going to kill me? Or would I opt out and live life on my own terms? If a car crash was my fate, would I ever set foot in a car again?

Liane Moriarty is an author who always delivers a good story. "Here One Moment" wasn't my favorite of hers (I mean, "Big Little Lies," right?), but it's a solid read that'll definitely have you thinking, "What would I do?" If you're already a fan of her work, this is a no-brainer. And let's be honest, it doesn't matter what I think about this book; I'll be first in line for her next release because, she can do no wrong in my book.

So, if you're into unique stories with a dash of the existential, go check out "Here One Moment." You won't regret it… unless, of course, a mysterious woman on a plan tells you otherwise.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for an advanced readers copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book kept you thinking and constantly trying to decide what was going to happen. Imagine being on a delayed plane and a strange lady, that becomes known as the “death lady”, tells you when and how you will die. Would you believe what she says or would you just write her off as crazy? What would you think if you found out her predictions seem to be coming true? Would you start changing your diet habits if she told you that heart disease would take you out? Or stay away from bars if you she told you it would be in a bar fight.

It’s easy to say you know she is just some crazy lady when she first tells everyone. But, when things start happening you would start questioning if she had some unexplained powers. Especially after you found out her mother was a famous fortune teller.

The twists and turns make this book great. In the beginning it seems like you are going to have to keep track of the so many people that you won’t be able to keep it straight. Trust me you will. I loved learning how each person dealt with their prediction. Hearing the “death lady’s” story is what makes the book.

Liane Moriarty always knows just how to spin the perfect story and this is no different.

Thank you NetGalley and Crown publishing for my advanced copy to read.

An excellent new book from Liane Moriarty. if this new release missed your TBR, get it on there immediately! This was an excellent book with a strong narrative drive, short chapters jumping between points of view, and a diving question I haven't been able to stop thinking about.

A group of people on a plane all have their age and cause of death predicted. Whether they believe the prediction or not, no one's life will ever be the same.

I loved this book. No one can get readers trying to figure out the mystery and then write the ending that makes it all make sense like Liane Moriarty.

One woman stands up on a flight and predicts when and how each passenger will die. Some live long lives, and others will pass in a matter of months. The book follows these characters as they struggle with this info, grieve losses, and fool fate. I found myself rooting for these people and even the mystery woman who gave the predictions. Her back story is fascinating!

This book might be my favorite by Liane Moriarty. It is philosophical in that we should live our lives to the fullest. While it is lengthy, it is an engaging read! You kind of forget how long the book is.

Thanks, Crown Publishing | Crown, for the advanced review copy via NetGalley. (Available now)

I’m working through Moriarty’s backlist and jumped at the chance to read her latest. After a long, hot wait on the tarmac, a flight finally begins, and all the passengers sigh with relief. All except one unremarkable and harmless-looking grey-haired woman, who steps into the aisle and begins listing how and when each passenger will die.

It’s all uncomfortable glances and scoffing (while scheduling procrastinated doctor’s appointments) until three of the passengers die as predicted.

Told through six points of view (the “Death Lady,” Cherry, and several of the passengers with shorter timelines), this was a reflective and character-driven mystery. With notes of grief, fatalism, and a little mysticism, it felt a little long but gave us time to interact with the various personalities. Moriarty alternates POVs with each chapter, which was a little confusing. I wish I had jotted down a character list at the start so it was easier to pick up the thread after each shift. We spend the most time with Cherry, as every other chapter depicts her childhood and marriage. Honestly, it took me half the book to warm to her, but by the charmingly satisfying ending, I loved her.

This would make for a good book club discussion.

Liane Moriarty does it again!

While not as dark as some of her other novels, this one starts out with a plane ride from Hobart to Sydney. We meet the cast of characters one at a time, interspersed with our main narrator, Cherry. During the flight, Cherry enters a trance like state and tells numerous passengers their age and cause of death. This sets off a tidal wave of fear, anger and trying to outrun what people think is their destiny. But Cherry is much more than she seems and as the story unspools, and you learn Cherry's history, it turns into a novel about actions, life and living it to its fullest.

cherry boards a plane and begins telling passengers their age of death and cause of death. everyone is frightened and upset by her predictions.

time passes and some of the passengers deaths actually happen as cherry predicted. people start trying to track down "the death lady" for clarity. the story follows multiple different passengers from the plane and how they change their lives to "cheat death."

we learn a lot about cherry's life too and how she ended up on the flight today after tragically losing her husband, Ned. it appears she was in a dazed mental health crisis when she made her predictions.

moral of the story is the live in the moment and enjoy each day to the fullest.

I started out reading the ARC of this book and was drawn in right away. The idea of someone telling others of their death date and cause was enticing. I got to about 30% in and it seemed to be just not going anywhere so I decided to wait for the publishing date and listen to the audio.
Audio was a bit better but it took until about halfway before predictions started coming true and the story picked up. It was still very interesting but I feel like there could have been a bit of editing down to downsize the number of pages and move the plot a bit faster.
This character driven book did end well with everything being tied all up with no unbelievable info.

Thanks to Netgalley and Crown Publishing for the opportunity to review this book.

A non-descript older woman, Cherry, boards a full plane flight and midway through the flight she stands up and announces to passengers when they will die and how. She is later known as the Death Lady. The book takes us through the lives of a few of those passengers, showing us how their lives have changed because of the information. I found their reactions interesting. The chapters also reveal the life of Cherry. I thought there was too much information on her life. She had a lot of tragedy and death and knew how painful that was, yet she inflicts that same pain on innocent passengers. I liked the struggles of the passengers and how they supported each other, I got tired of Cherry’s life story.

What an interesting novel....
I've ready many of Moriarty's novels and one thing I can say about her is that you really never know what kind of story you're gonna get! The building action of this book is immense and engaging. Definitely a page-turner; however, I was left a little disappointed by the ending. HERE ONE MOMENT has the potential for amazing screen adaptation, and I hope they'd add a little something to the ending so it has the same power the other 90% of the story holds. In this book we have a woman on a plane telling the other passengers (whether they want it or not) their age of death and cause of death, and then we follow the ripple effect those few words have on each of them, how they live, the decisions they make, and how it also effects those they love. I would recommend this book for sure, just prepare for a quick, lackluster ending--- but I'll tell ya, I've spent HOURS pondering the ending and how something as minor as a few words have the power to change lives, for the better or worst. So maybe the ending hits exactly as Moriarty intended!?

I typically love Moriarty's books, but this one fell flat. I thought the premise was super cool, but the story dragged a bit. I found that there were also way to many storylines going on at once.

Thank you to Crown for providing a free ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This one is out now!

On a short flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, an elderly woman goes from person to person on the flight and gives them their age of death and cause of death. As this shakes some of the passengers and flight attendants to varying degrees, they mostly go about their business…until some of the woman’s predictions start coming true. Following the woman named “The Death Lady” and various passengers on the flight, Here One Moment explores death, grief, and what would you do if you knew how long you had to live.

LOVED this one! This would have to be my favorite of Moriarty’s since Big Little Lies and would make a fantastic miniseries (much more so than Nine Perfect Strangers and Apples Never Fall). Loved every character and how they dealt with their prediction and absolutely flew through the first 100 pages. I was a little bored with The Death Lady’s background until she became an adult. This was a long one at over 500 pages but I actually would have liked more just to wrap up some of stories a bit better. Equal laugh and tears.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC publication for an honest review.

This book really was thought provoking and elicited so many feelings! Told in different points of view and flashes of different timelines...so captivating. A woman on a flight gives proclamations to the passengers of the age and a cause of death...some a declaration of a long life, others a short span. Nobody was exempt, including the youngest on the flight, a baby. I was invested in the outcome of the cast of characters we were personally introduced to. When it is found out some of the passengers have succumbed as predicted, chaos and terror arise with the wondering if each fate is sealed or if there is a way to change course. We also get a backstory and point of view of Cherry the "psychic"...or is she?

5 stars

I have long been a fan of Moriarty, and I like how her books always focus on different types of interpersonal dynamics. This book asks some important questions that I know have spun through everyone's mind- if you could find out the moment that you died, would you want to know? And even more so, what would you change about your life if you knew your time on earth was limited?

So if the situation faced by a plane full of people on a flight to Australia when a medium tells them how they die and what age. Whether or not to believe her is the decision the passengers face.

This book had similarities to one of my most favorite books, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin in the way that it did make me introspective about my own. Unfortunately, unlike The Immortalists, I had an idea of where this book was going from the very start. While I loved Moriarty's typical framework about multiple characters and how their lives converge, I wanted more. The present chapters were interwoven with chapters from the medium's POV, detailing her past and her life story, and I just wasn't engaged enough.

It sounds strange to say about a 450 page book, but I wanted more chapters at the end, where, from my POV, it finally got really really good. I wanted to know more about how the lives of these characters I had come to care for turned out. It wasn't my favorite from her, but I liked it.

This was an interesting novel, unlike any I’ve read before. The best way to describe the genre is suspenseful mystery. The story is told in multiple perspectives, with every other chapter telling the life story of the woman on the plane who gave death premonitions to the other passengers. The remaining chapters focus on a handful of characters who were on the plane and how the premonitions are impacting their lives. This was a quick read as I was definitely interested in seeing how things would turn out for everyone. It had a great deal of suspense, but wasn’t scary or what I would really classify as a thriller.

I enjoyed this book a lot and thank #NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for honest feedback. -4 stars

I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it. I found it somewhat confusing to keep up with which character was telling what part of their story (past or present). I did enjoy the overall concept of the story and how it all came together, but I skimmed a LOT. A bit too wordy.