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.

Thank you NetGalley and Crown Publishing for an ARC of Here One Moment!

I thought the premise of this book was very interesting. I also link that the varying viewpoints kept the book entertaining without being confusing.

However, the book was also fairly slow, and I think could have been cut down by about 25%.

But, all in all, an entertaining and satisfying read.

"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?"

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty grabbed my attention right away with the promise of "what if's" as a psychic tells passengers on a plane the age and cause of death that she expects they will experience. I devoured the stories of these passengers while they bounced from chapter to chapter, family to family, the young, the old, the natural causes and the unnatural ones as well.

In between each chapter, was a backstory on our main character, Cherry. While these are the chapters I found to be less interesting and often wordy, they did add elements by providing a backstory to Cherry's odd nature.

Human nature acts in a wide range of ways when faced with ones' mortality and Moriarty does a fine job demonstrating some of these ways as she brings her characters to life for us. I found myself hoping more than once that some of these folks found ways to outsmart fate while I journeyed through these chapters. One thing for sure, I'll keep my eyes down on my next flight.

Many thanks to Crown Publishing and Netgalley for this e-ARC. All opinions expressed are authentically my own.

This book did not work for me as I had hoped. As I was seeing 5 star reviews pouring in, I was excited to delve into it myself and enjoy the ride. However, there were multiple reasons I didn't enjoy it and for me it was a classic interesting concept/plot, but lacking execution.

The plot essentially is a woman on a plane predicts everyone's age and cause of death on that flight, then we,of course, see how their lives unfold. Will they take her predictions to heart and try to change their fate? Or will they ignore it and continue living their lives for the better or worse? And do her predictions start to come true? As the reader, we get to watch this all play out. This concept is very similar to the book, The Measure, and, quite frankly, it does a better job with execution. I loved The Measure and would highly recommend it.

There were two major things I didn't care for with this book. The first issue was the writing style. It meandered and felt like I was listening to a senile elderly lady tell a story. Many times I asked myself, "What is the point of this?" and was bored. The book is over 500 pages and I feel it could have been trimmed down to roughly 350.

The second issue was this was a character driven book, which I enjoy. However, each chapter, was a different character's POV, but it wasn't labeled, so at times I would have to read several paragraphs before I knew whose point of view I was reading. That was a big issue for me.

I've seen some people take issue with how the book ended, but ironically enough, I didn't mind it and thought it wrapped the story up nicely.

**Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me an advanced copy of this book and in return I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review and opinion. I am posting this review to my Goodreads account immediately and will post it to my Amazon & Instagram accounts upon publication.

Wow! I couldn't put down this book. I wanted to see what happened to everyone on the plane! Would they really die when and how they were told they would? I loved how the story went back and forth between the characters and helped develop the plot. I loved seeing what happened to them after they got off the plane. How would what the "Death Lady" told them effect their actions and decisions? Great premise. Great story-telling. A really solidly good enjoyable book. Loved it.
Thank you very much, Crown Publishing and NetGalley!

Can fate be fought? That is the question behind Liane Moriaty's Here One Moment. This is the tale of random strangers who all experience one life-changing event, a fortune teller on an airplane telling them when and how they will die. The novel follows the characters as they try to fight the death they are expecting. This novel was suspenseful and gripping, while also thought-provoking. I enjoyed all of the many storylines and while some novels with multiple storylines become overwhelming and confusing, that was not the case. 5/5 stars! I highly recommend this great read!

Thank you to Netgalley for this arc in exchange for my unbiased review.