This book follows a commuter flight in Australia when one passenger stands up mid flight and walks down each aisle point and each passenger and telling them their age of death and cause of death. Obviously, most do not take her seriously. Until they do, weeks later when one passenger dies as predicted. Bouncing around between the psychic in question and a few of the people who got some highly concerning predictions, the story that follows that flight unfolds.

liane moriarty is a fantastic writer but some of her books hit harder for me than others. (Big Little Lies is IT, y’all, and I still think of What Alice Forgot regularly.) this book sounded RIGHT up my alley!!! What a thinker of a premise — how would you react if someone told you that you would die before your next birthday?

I was very hooked for at least the first half of the book… but then it got a bit slow. I definitely think the 512-page book can have been slimmed down (mostly from the whole history from the so-called “death lady”). But the real kicker is the ending (no spoilers but I half joked and told @bookedwithbecca that I deducted a full star because of it 🫢). Both of us loved The Measure, which has a similar theme, and I think both of us prefer it over Here One Moment. I can’t spoil anything, but IYKYK on that ending 😮‍💨

This was an excellent read, kept me thinking about it even when I wasn’t actively reading and I found myself talking to people about it. The idea behind this story was super creative, a lady stands up on a plane and decides to tell everyone when and how they will die?! Fascinating and terrifying at the same time. I really enjoyed how the chapters alternated between other passengers on the plane and the “fortune teller” and often felt I just had to keep reading to find out what was going to happen. The short chapters had a way of keeping you engaged and kept ending on cliffhangers to keep you going. I highly recommend this unique book!

A new Liane Moriarty! How lucky is the world?! This story was so unique and interesting. ept me thinking about life, death, coincidences and synchronicities. I had no idea how it was going to end and resolve all the questions. A very satisfying ending that I'm still thinking about. I want to discuss it after you read it!

This took a bit to get into as it was quite different from what I expected.

I ended up really living it and thought the ending was particularly beautiful

Thank you to @netgalley for my ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
There are certain things I have come to expect from Liane Moriarty: a large number of main characters and lots of twists to bring it all together. Here One Moment, definitely follows the formula, but this story is unlike any I have ever read. Imagine being stuck on a delayed flight and just wanting to get home after a long day of travel. Just when you think the day can't be worse, a fellow passenger starts telling everyone their age of death and how they will die! What would you do if you knew exactly how and when you would die? Would you make changes to your life, try to find the lady to make her change her prediction or let whatever happens happen?

Liane Moriarty weaves a story about choices and how one moment can set in motion a string of life changing events for many people. The story was original and peaked my interest. I will say it was slow to start and didn't hold my interest as much in the beginning. Once it got going, I became invested and had to know what happened. I think overall, it is an intriguing read, and you will enjoy this book if you love a good mystery.

Imagine you are sitting on an airplane minding your own business when a sweet little old lady comes up and tells you when and how you are going to kick the bucket. Is she a crackpot or let her prognostication change everything? That’s the unique premise of Liane Moriarty’s brilliantly constructed recent novel, Here One Moment.

Set aboard a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, this inventive tale introduces a vivid cast of characters: a newlywed couple still glowing from their vows, a tired mom wrangling two kids, a pregnant woman, and a brooding hipster. No one notices the unassuming elderly woman in the aisle seat.

Dubbed “The Death Lady” by the media, Cherry Lockwood delivers eerie predictions for a handful of passengers. Assault, drowning, and terminal illness are among the fates she foresees. Is she a fraud? A psychic? Or something else entirely? But when her predictions come true, the passengers must reckon with their foretold fates.

Moriarty masterfully weaves humor and tension into a narrative that’s both philosophical and gripping. The richly developed characters, especially Cherry, draw you in, each responding to their impending demise in ways that feel achingly real. The author’s exploration of mortality and meaning hits hard, but it’s her hopeful undercurrent about the value of living fully that lingers.

** Thanks to the publisher for a comp of this book for an honest review.

This book had a unique premise, and it really resonated with me. Though it was long, it never felt tedious, and it kept me interested. I really liked the ending and thought it worked well.

Moriarty's signature blend of humor, emotional depth, and intriguing character dynamics makes this a compelling read that resonates long after the final page.

I enjoyed this book. I often think about if life is preordained or random decisions change your direction. My only complaint is that it is a long read. I was anxious to get to the end and see how this story was carried out. 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.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?

I loved this book. I was drawn in immediately and kept doing ‘just one more chapter’ every night. The ending was a little bit lackluster, but this book was mostly a character study and more about the journey than the destination. And in my opinion, it’s a very interesting journey I would recommend.

This is a little bit of an interesting review, because I loved the beginning and the concept of the start of the book. It starts with an elderly woman on a plane, predicting their cause of death and what age they will die. Intriguing, right? It was! And while the book played out with the characters futures, it was a little hard to follow and started to crumble a touch at the end.

I listened to this on audio and there was A LOT of characters and their storylines to follow, all with the same narrator so it was a little more difficult to keep track of who was who. It was also quite long, so I eventually sorted them all out but it was a bit of a struggle to start. I was totally invested in everyone by the end though! And while this review seems like I wasn't really a fan overall, I was and I enjoyed how *most* of it played out. There were parts I didn't love, which I won't share because it'll be a spoiler, but I just wanted something else from the end I think.

Regardless of all of this, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. And overall, I love the message posed here - would you live your life differently if you knew how and when you'd die?

This one started out so well! I loved that we got to spend time in the plane scene getting to know the characters and experiencing what happened. But about halfway through this one I just really started to lose interest. It was dragging and I found myself less and less interested in continuing. Middle of the road reading experience for me. I wanted it to feel more impactful than it ended up being for me.

Liane Moriarty is one of my favorite authors. “Here One Moment” was awesome and a return to form after I was less than thrilled with her predecessor, “Apples Never Fall.” This book was capturing from the get-go. It was a unique, thought-provoking, and fun piece of modern fiction. I really enjoyed this book and it easily is one of my top five reads of the year. This is screaming for a Tv series adaptation. 4 stars ⭐️. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the advanced copy for review.

I thought this book was very enjoyable. Made me really like all the characters so I was getting nervous at the end. Made me think a lot about my own life and the choices I have made and what I would do differently if I received a death date when I was least expecting it.

As someone with a lot of death anxiety, I have no one to blame but myself for putting me through this book. It can be deeply uncomfortable at times - I would liken it to constantly poking at a wound - but does a great job of confronting the idea of how we face our own mortality. The tone of the book also drew me back to some of Moriarty's older books, which have a style I've enjoyed more than her recent ones.

I really enjoyed this book. It sounded like it could be quite depressing and sad to read but I found it the opposite. Moriarty is so gifted at creating full and developed characters. She also goes back and forth between characters, and it flows seamlessly. I found the narrative compelling and impressive. Such a fully developed idea that really explores the ideas of mortality and the choices we make in life. I loved it!

Another great read by Liane Moriarty.!
This was a book I could not put down. I was hooked immediately.
Phenomenal character development. There were so many people that I cared about.
Lots of twists, turns and surprises.
This is probably my favorite book of hers.

As someone who’s been a fan for years, I felt this was quintessential Liane. However it was a very slow start & it took me a little longer than usual to find my rhythm with the story.

Here One Moment was absolutely phenomenal. The setting starts on a plane, where many people receive the shock of their lifetime when a random woman goes up to each of them and tells them cause of death, age of death. Following the flight, when a few of the passengers unfortunately die as predicted, the others start to worry that the lady is a psychic. Following these people and the “psychic” woman herself, we are on the journey with them of how they choose to live their lives with the thought that their time might be coming to an end, and how to prevent that. It was a long book but it wrapped up so beautifully in the end, with each character seemingly weaving into each others lives, whether intentionally or not. I absolutely loved it!

What would you do if you knew how old you were going to be when you died and how you would go? Would you live life any differently? Would you try to prevent it? These are the questions I found myself asking throughout Here One Moment. It is an ordinary day on a flight to Sydney when an older woman stands up in the aisle and begins telling each passenger when they would die, whether they asked or not. At first her predictions are brushed off as the ramblings of an old woman, but when the first few deaths occur exactly as she predicted, a nationwide frenzy is ignited to find the "Psychic Lady."

I have always been a big fan of Liane Moriarty; I have read every book they have written. I went into this book expecting all of the points of view as this is their signature style. Even jumping in with that expectation, I found the multitude of characters hard to follow and remember. There were a few that were focused on such as the mother of the swimming boy and the young newlywed couple, but the rest of the characters got lost in the shuffle. They were briefly introduced in the beginning and then referenced as if they would be easy to remember, but weren't. I also wanted more from the ending. I appreciated the callbacks from the author to the beginning of the story, but the story was wrapped up at the end so quickly that it felt rushed and lacked the intended impact. The first half was incredibly slow and the last half was rushed so the pacing has room for improvement. Overall, if you like Liane Moriarty, you should like this book as well, but it is not one of their best.