I enjoyed reading Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty. You will fall in love with all the characters. I received an ARC of this book courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely. Happy Reading!

This was such an amazing book! I have never read a story like this before and the way in which it all unfolded was perfect. This story has several different characters and the chapters switch and flip flop between them all. I love how some chapters would just drop some new information on you, but leave you hanging as well. Extremely well written and I really wasn’t sure how this story was going to play out. This is a must read and one of her best books yet!

"Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty is a captivating novel that delves into themes of fate, free will, and the human condition. The story begins with a seemingly ordinary flight delay, but quickly takes a dramatic turn when an elderly woman named Cherry Lockwood, later known as the “Death Lady,” stands up and predicts the exact time and cause of death for several passengers on the plane.

Moriarty masterfully introduces a diverse cast of characters, each grappling with the unsettling news of their impending deaths. The novel’s structure, with its 126 chapters, allows readers to deeply explore the lives and reactions of these characters, making their journeys both relatable and thought-provoking.

The premise is both chilling and intriguing, as the passengers initially dismiss Cherry’s predictions as a joke, only to find them coming true in the following months. This sets off a chain of events that forces each character to confront their mortality and the choices they make.
Moriarty’s writing is vivid and engaging, with a balance of humor and existential reflection. The novel’s exploration of whether fate can be fought or if clairvoyance is real keeps readers hooked until the very end. While some elements may feel a bit over the top, the overall narrative is compelling and makes for a great book club pick due to the rich discussions it can inspire.

For me, "Here One Moment" was a fresh, funny, and ambitious take on some of our oldest existential questions, making it a must-read for fans of Liane Moriarty and those interested in stories about destiny and human nature.

Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty
Pub Date: Sep 10 2024

I absolutely loved this book! The 505 pages flipped by so fast, each one better than the last! It was such a captivating emotional read. I consumed every page from the first until the surprising ending and I truly wasn't ready for it to end!

The theme of the book is a psychic prediction on death. The main character, Cherry is referred to as the "Death Lady" through out the book. Her character is explained from her childhood all the way throughout her adulthood which will explain how she came to be called this. Is she a psychic, you will have to read the book and come to your own conclusion.

The book definitely made me think about my time on earth, not knowing how much time I have left and how important it is to live each day to its fullest.

Many thanks to #HereOneMoment #NetGalley and #CrownPublishing for providing me with an E-ARC of this 5 Star book.

No spoilers! This book had me guessing the whole way through! It is definitely a long read but stick with it… it’s worth the investment. The short chapters kept it moving. There is a philosophical/mystery feel to the book which was new for me but very enjoyable. I liked the wide ranging emotions that this book provoked. A very interesting and well thought out book!

Thanks NetGalley for the ARC!

Liane Moriarty has been a favorite author of mine ever since I devoured BIG LITTLE LIES back in the day, and I’ve been reading her novels ever since. Her latest, HERE ONE MOMENT has a unique premise involving a group of airplane passengers that kept me engaged from start to finish:

“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.”

Eeeek! Freaky AF, right!? If you’ve liked THE MEASURE by Nikki Erlick, then I think you’ll dig this one as well. Cherry, an elderly woman on the flight is responsible for these death predictions, and the novel follows her and six others after the plane lands. Even though there’s a lot of characters to keep track of, I’d still describe this novel as character-driven. Cherry, aka Death Lady is truly the star of the show. The reader learns her backstory and how these predictions came to be.

READ THIS IF YOU ENJOY:

- Multiple perspectives
- Slow-burning plots
- A hint of mystery
- Character-driven novels
- Fortune telling and psychics
- Reflections on loss and grief

All of the characters truly grew on me—especially Cherry. I was a nervous wreck, biting my nails, hoping and praying that nothing bad would happen to them. The plot thickened and developed fabulously. The conclusion was incredible. It was extremely heartfelt, hopeful, and had a wonderful message behind it. Overall, this novel was a major winner for me. Definitely one of my favorites from the author! 4/5 solid stars for HERE ONE MOMENT!

I liked this. The synopsis kind of gave me The Measure by Nikki Erlick vibes, but it ended up being really different. Not quite as much “what would you do if you knew your death date,” and more of the back story behind the woman who handed out the dates.

A little slow to get started, but by 40% I was hooked.

I’d definitely recommend this to others.

I received this book free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoy Liane’s books, so I was thrilled to receive the ARC of her next book!

This was such an interesting concept for a story about life, time, and priorities. A woman on a plane predicts each passenger’s cause of death and age of death. I was invested from the beginning as we follow some of these plane passengers after that fateful flight.

It is a long book (>500 pages), but the short chapters and multiple POVs help with pacing. I loved the ending and how everything connected.

There are funny moments and heartbreaking moments. There are themes of grief and death. But there is also a beautiful message about living life to its fullest in the unknown amount of time we have here.

Thank you Crown Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was lucky to get an ARC for this new book, and Here One Moment does not disappoint. Would you try to fight your future if you knew what it would bring? For the passengers on the flight with the death lady, this becomes their reality. On their flight, a woman, a psychic nonetheless tells everyone how old they will be when they die and how they will die. For some, it’s pleasant news, they’ll die at 93 of natural causes. Others less so. The baby will drown at 7, the 29 year old will die in a fight at 30, and so on. What they do with this information now may change their lives…or it might be worthless. No one knows, and it’s the not knowing that’s terrifying.

This book starts off a little slow, though the tension and suspense is there from the get go. However, the book soon changes shape and goes from suspenseful to emotional, and it’s a change I’m oddly here for. Reading about everyone’s individual struggles, even the psychic’s really makes you feel for them, connect to them. Piece by piece, things are revealed and you get attached to the characters, praying that they won’t actually die as predicted but that’s just the point. You don’t know what’ll happen.

Here One Moment is another solid release from Liane Moriarty, a strong 4.5 stars for me! Now available!

Bestselling author Liane Moriarty returns with a gripping story of love and loss in “Here One Moment” (Penguin Random House).
On a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, Cherry Lockwood is a nondescript passenger who does something out of the ordinary. Forty-five minutes into the flight, she unbuckles her seat belt and wanders down the aisle. Out of the blue, she predicts the cause of death and the age of death of her fellow passengers. Initially, everyone believes she’s crazy, but one by one, their outlooks on life have been changed by this chance encounter.
No one is laughing about these prophecies. Cherry has delivered them with such conviction that she has convinced her fellow passengers of the truth of her words. They are all scared to death. “Fate won’t be fought,” Cherry announces to the doubters.
Upon landing, Cherry goes on her way to visit friends, leaving the passengers and crew with questions. Who was she? Was she a psychic? Will her predictions come true? What can I do to prevent them from coming true?
Of course, word of “The Death Lady” spreads like wildfire on the news and social media, and Cherry’s fame becomes elevated when, a few months later, one passenger dies as she predicted. Then two more.
The novel cleverly toggles back and forth between Cherry’s backstory, and those of Ethan, Paula, Allegra, Leo, Sue, and Eve.In classic Moriarty style, she infuses her characters with humor and sympathy, even Cherry. Some of her characters are trapped in lives where they lack control, while others seemed happily living their lives in an uncertain world until Cherry came along.
To reveal more about the mystery or the characters would ruin the plot, which unfolds like a beautiful rose. Each character and episode is a lovely petal composing the entire flower. However, the overarching theme in this tense narrative is the struggle between free will and fate. How much control do we possess over our lives or is our fate preordained?
No doubt, the main character in this book is DEATH—that big, black shadow which hangs over us all. We never know when it will arrive or under what circumstances. All the reader can do is enjoy the well-woven web of another Moriarty mystery that skewers our social norms and asks what would we do if we are told our expiration dates and the cause?
Moriarty’s “Here One Moment” is a tense psychological thriller that makes the reader question what they would do if they knew their days were numbered.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest book by a favorite author, Liane Moriarty. All opinions expressed in this review are my own – 5 stars!

It’s supposed to be an ordinary, short flight. But there’s a delay and the passengers are getting anxious. But that’s just the beginning. Because one person on the flight starts telling the passengers how and when they will die. The passengers are frightened but most are disbelieving. Then a few months later, one passenger on the flight dies exactly as the woman had predicted. Then two more.

This story pulled me in from the very beginning. I loved the way it was written, starting with the author lulling us into feeling like we were watching all the passengers on the plane, describing everything. Then the chapters are split between learning the “death lady,” Cherry’s backstory, as well as focusing on a handful of passengers and how they were affected by the prediction. It’s a long book, but I couldn’t put it down. I felt anxious, scared, hopeful, and just loved how all the pieces of the many puzzles started falling into place. It makes you think about what you would do if you knew how much time you had left. Moriarty has done it again – a must-read book that will have you thinking about fate and destiny.

Happy Publication Day!

What a great premise for a novel! A passenger on a plane predicts (unsolicited) the age and cause of death for all of the other passengers and some of the crew on the plane. For many of them, they are told that their deaths will be far in the future but for others, death is imminent. For some, it's a reason to change their lifestyles and live life to the fullest and for others it really is a death sentence.

Liane Moriarity is a master storyteller! She manages to interweave the stories of the passengers and one flight attendant with the backstory of the psychic (or is she?) who gave the predictions. I often get confused with stories told from multiple points of view, but each character's "voice" was so clearly fleshed out that even this reader had no problem keeping up! It really was a wonderfully crafted novel, and I found myself reading late into the night!

Thanks so much to Crowd Publishing and NetGalley for providing me an ARC of this wonderful book! This may be my favorite read of 2024!

As in her previous novels, Liane Moriarty has once again woven together a diverse cast of characters, all connected by a common thread—in this case they are bound by a domestic flight.

In her latest book, Here One Moment, she brilliantly portrays a multitude of personalities and their genuine reactions when they receive unsolicited predictions of their deaths. These well-developed characters are incredibly relatable! From newlyweds and elderly couples to young parents and ambitious professionals, we have all experienced life experiences similar to these passengers. However, there are differences in how we address our mortality.

I loved getting to know the characters and found myself laughing at moments with the mention of watching Dallas, arriving to a nasty hotel room, and the drama of air travel protocol. There were also many somber passages that hit home like the sense of feeling invisible and the loss of a loved one. I absolutely adored Cherry’s story, also know as “The Death Lady”, and the camaraderie of the passengers rallying to defy Cherry’s predictions in the months after the flight.

At the heart of this book, is how we choose to live our lives. Some choose to believe in free will and some choose to believe in destiny. This storyline is engaging, encourages self-reflection, and leaves you with an overall feel-good sensation! It’s already one of my top reads of the year and I cannot wait to discuss this with others!

What an interesting concept for a book. I know there have been other books that have a similar theme but I haven't read one like this. Like all of Moriarty's books she has a bunch of characters and some of these characters are "characters". It all starts with a lady on a plane who goes through the entire plane telling everyone how old they will be when they die and how they will die. Some are please because they will live to ripe old ages but others are terrified because they only have a short time to live. After the plane trip the author takes you into all the characters lives and how they are coping. She also goes into Cherry's (the death lady) life and what had happened to her just before that flight. It was a very interesting book and I can see it also becoming a movie or a TV series. Most of the characters are likable and you begin to have feelings for the soothsayer. I would recommend this book.
Thanks to #netgalley, #crownpublishing and @lianemoriarty_official for an ARC of this book.

I'm again genuinely torn on reviewing this book. On the one hand, I was intrigued by the idea of someone predicting the death's of every passenger on a plane (intrigued, but in a creepy, not for me kind of way). The fact that some of the predictions came true just added to the contradiction of it all. Where it fell flat for me was in the execution. The premise of this book allowed for some pretty deep philosophical discussion about living life differently in the face of information on your "death date," but it was all so superficial instead - learning to swim, driving slow, avoiding confrontation. I would have much preferred to see some of the characters literally change their lives for the better and live differently, if they truly didn't have a lot of time left in this world. I also found way too much time spent on the narrator's (or "Death Lady's") story, mainly because it was pretty darn boring. And finally, the ending just fizzled out, after a lot of hype and lead-up.

I received an ARC ebook from Netgalley, and I tried to get into it, but just couldn't. I LOVED all of the Liane Moriarty books I have read so far, and this one was very different. It was a rambling mess and I was confused. There are quite a few characters, which was a little overwhelming and hard to follow. It had an interesting idea, but I just couldn't get pulled in, sadly.

We're boarding a (supposedly) short flight, hopping from Hobart to Sydney, two hours max. Moriarty fills us in on the passengers. Newlyweds (in their wedding attire), pregnant woman, harried woman with young children, anxious businessman, guy in cast... an assortment of regular people.

The flight's delayed (not insignificantly) on the tarmac after boarding (mechanical issue) and tempers are short.

Finally in the air, something bizarre occurs. An older woman, one nobody took notice of earlier (she doesn't stand out) walks down the aisle, as if in a trance, pointing at her fellow passengers and predicting cause of death, age of death.

Oh boy.

We get off the plane and see how the characters react to having their end game foretold. They didn't ask for this. Moriarty is spinning many plates here, interspersing the narrative with chapters from the perspective of the "fortune teller", who we learn is named Cherry (definitely NOT Cheryl). It's a lot to keep track of.

Cherry is very dry, a social introvert, current with pop culture (we get everything from Pink's athleticism to Bob Dylan's hunted look in the We Are The World documentary). Her chapters get us closer to understanding the why of it all, how Cherry found herself on that plane was compelled to point and predict.

The book is poignant, the stories touching. It moved me in unexpected directions, and kept me engaged with astute observations and some bonkers characters:

“Are you talking about that lady?” A woman in a leopard-print jumpsuit looks up from her phone. “She woke me up to tell me I was dying of alcoholism. I said, Excuse me! Rude!”

That should be enough to pique interest without giving too much away!

My thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the digital ARC. Here One Moment is published today.

I normally love Liane Moriarty's books but was a bit nervous about selecting this one based on the description. I was worried it was about fortune telling and would have a supernatural element to it. But I was very pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed the story. It is about fortune telling but not in the way you may expect. Many different characters that the reader can relate to. Many funny passages and some sad ones. Many pages but the chapters are short, making it easy to read just one more chapter.

✈️REVIEW✈️

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

4/5⭐️

“Fate won’t be fought.”

The book follows a group of people flying on a short plane trip. A nondescript, older woman is on board and in the middle of the flight, begins to predict time and cause of death for each passenger. Everyone laughs it off, until her predictions start coming true.

Bouncing between POVs and timelines, this story brings together a complex cast of characters. It makes you ponder life, and Moriarty’s writing style is one I’m a fan of. A great one for a bookclub discussion!

Read if you liked:
✔️The Measure
✔️multiple POVs
✔️thought provoking books

Many thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for sharing this digital copy in exchange for an honest review. Here One Moment is published today, September 10.

Another clever and entertaining novel by Liane Moriarty! “Here One Moment” is about an older woman on a delayed flight who proceeds to tell everyone how and when they’re going to die.

It’s a unique and intriguing page turner. Makes you think about your own mortality. Can you imagine? Being on a flight and having an older woman walking down the aisle, making eye contact and telling you a date of your fate. The stories of actual people of all different backgrounds, all different ages, and how they connect and proceed to take the next steps in their life. Will they hesitate, will they change their life, or will they move forward without fear of a psychic premonition?

One predicted death happens, then two more, a Facebook page is initiated to connect all of the people on the delayed flight and update everyone on the happenings of the psychics predictions.
Those whose dates were predicted when they are 103 don’t seem to have a fear, but those who have an early death are quite fearful.

“The Death lady” has become popular in newspaper headlines. She too has a history, a family that makes her who she is. Liane Moriarty takes you down a path of “what if’s” and hypothetical scenarios.

It’s quite compelling , nothing like I’ve ever read before, this 500 page read takes you down the paths of real people, with real lives and real outcomes. Highly recommend.