The premise of this book - a whole plane learning the year and cause of their death - is very intriguing, and the first 25% I was hooked. But after the set up, things started to wander and unravel and the book felt long and difficult to get through. I think the primary reason for this was the alternating chapters with Cherry, which were often meandering and didn’t add much to the story. We could have gone to her storyline much fewer times with greater impact.
There were a lot of characters from the plane whose backstories I really connected to and wanted to hear from, and I appreciate Liane Moriarty’s quick, dark, humorous writing. So for that I give this book 3.5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

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

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. A mysterious woman starts giving out predictions to each passenger about their age of death and also the manner in which they will die. Some are a very old age, but a few are very soon. Everyone leaves the flight in a a bit of a panic and scared about their future. Within months, a few of the passengers do indeed die as predicted, and the tensions skyrocket from there. Who is this mystery "Death Lady" and is she for real??? Some of the passengers connect with each other and work to try to figure it out. We also flash back to the past of the mystery woman and slowly start to learn who she is.

There are a lot of characters and I thought I might have trouble keeping them straight, but the author does a great job of keeping them straight for you along the way. There are also a lot of little threads that she weaves through the story. You just keep wondering where this is going and how it's all going to end up. Let me just tell you that she masterfully weaves them all together at the end, so satisfying! It was a very good and emotional ending and I loved it! The chapters were also short and super propulsive, causing a whole lot of "just one more chapter" late nights in bed.

This one really makes you think. Would you want to know? And if you did know how much that knowledge changes how you live your life. No way, now how, would I want to know! The story is very thought provoking and I think it would make for great book club discussions. I highly recommend adding this one to your Fall reading. Publication date 09/10/2024.

Thank you to @netgalley and @crownpublishing for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty did not disappoint!
A mysterious slow-burn that I absolutely loved.
I was absolutely enthralled with Here One Moment, the latest release from Liane Moriarty.
I thought the story was brilliant- smart, clever, intriguing and entertaining.
A very well-written, engaging story.

⭐️3
We think we want to know our future, or at least parts of it. But do we really? And can we truly comprehend the cost of such knowledge?

The premise of this one was intriguing, and let’s be honest, it’s Liane Moriarty. It alternates between the psychic Cherry and the other passengers as they go about their lives holding this daunting knowledge.

For myself, this one had too many POV for my liking and when a novel has more than 500 pages, that tends to be a bit much for me.

If you liked the Measure by Nikki Erlick, this one has a similar overall vibe to it.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6783014437

Pub date: September 10, 2024

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review

Liane Moriarty has the great ability to lay open the lives of numerous strangers and have them interconnect in the most amazing design. In Here One Moment, a domestic flight within Australia is full of passengers that are met by a mysterious old lady and given a "reading" of when they will die and by what means. Most receive the news they will live to an old age, but there are several that are stricken by the short life span they are given. Several of the passengers keep in touch as one, then two, then three of the occupants of the fated flight fulfil their predictions.

There are a number of passengers that the reader is exposed when they receive their death predictions, however, only a handful are followed for the rest of the novel. Each of these characters is expertly unraveled to expose their current life dilemmas and how they attempt to avoid their prophecy coming true. Cherry, also dubbed the "Death Lady," is a narrator of the story, and we learn her background and how she has come to that fateful flight.

Almost every offering I've read from Moriarty has been excellent. She is masterful at weaving so many stories into one without it being too confusing or boring. The glimpses into the lives of these characters and how they deal with their lives and those of their loved ones is very thought provoking. What would you do with your life if you knew when and how you would die?

Thank you to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC. The opinions expressed are my own.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the audio recording for this book.
The book begins on a plane, and we are introduced to several passengers. In the middle of the flight, a woman stands up and begins predicting the cause and age of death for everyone. Once the plane lands, they brush it off until a couple predictions start to come true. The story follows the lives of several of the passengers and how the predictions affect them. I found the beginning to be very choppy. The point of view shifts every chapter, and it was a little difficult to track before the hooks of the plot sank in. This may lose some readers who enjoy a smoother narrative.

Oh Cherry! Cherry turns everyone on a delayed flight upside down when she walks the aisle and predicts the year and manner of their death. This moves between her story and the story of the various people she touches-Allegra, Paula, Ethan, Leo, and Sue- and how they change as a result of hearing her. Each one has their own chapters, each one a clear personality, each one is relatable and you can see and feel them. You'll feel differently about Cherry too by the end and about the chaos she created. It's an interesting read that will make you think about how you would handle this sort of thing (let alone what you might do if you knew you, or your child, might only have months). Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A very good read.

Thank you Netgalley and Crown publishing for providing me this ARC.

In this novel, an elderly woman on an Australian domestic flight reveals to each passenger exactly how and when they will die, setting the stage for an extraordinary and thought-provoking story. The alternating chapters offer unique perspectives, with Cherry’s being particularly touching. The characters are well-developed, and the plot delves into deep questions about life, death, and how we choose to live.

Liane Moriarty’s signature blend of humor and depth shines through in this book, balancing the heavy themes with lighthearted moments. The ending was incredibly satisfying and emotionally impactful, leaving me both warmed and teary-eyed. This is a book that stays with you long after you’ve finished it.

This book was fantastic! All of the characters were well thought out and kept the story interesting. I was so engrossed in each POV and how they reacted to the shared experience. This was a complicated story to write and it was done wonderfully to keep the readers interest and wrap up in such thought provoking way.
Thank you NetGalley and Crown for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinions.

Would you want to know how and when you will die? Would you believe it? Try to avoid it? Here One Moment explores these questions, delving into the gamut of ways a plane full of passengers react. Full of heart, with grief, love and laughter. Another can't miss from Liane Moriarty.

An older woman airline passenger, mid-flight, in an almost sleepwalking trance, walks row-by-row pointing to every person on board, predicting their ages at death and how they will die in Liane Moriarty’s creepy psychological fiction, “Here One Moment.”

Like many somnambulists, upon arriving at her destination startled in her seat, Cherry has absolutely no memory of the incident or of her predictions.

However, every person on the flight remembers her forecasts and are literally scared to death. When the internet soon notes that three people on the flight have died just as the woman foretold, panic among the other passengers is heightened.

This is a unique novel filled with ensemble stories of many characters. Mainly it is a message about love and loss. It is about death and dying. It is also about redemption and atonement. It is a plead to live life to the fullest. It’s a poignant revelation that each day is a gift, and that each person who we love is also a gift—that these are blessings that cannot be taken for granted.

JoyReaderGirl1 graciously thanks NetGalley, Author Liane Moriarty and Publisher Crown for this advanced reader's copy for review.

I really liked this new book by Liane Moriarty. It has been quite some time since I have read one of their books, but I truly enjoyed the mystery to this and all of the twists. Nothing ever is what it appears with Liane, and I truly enjoyed that.

I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the Liane Moriarty novels I have read in the past. Unfortunately I could not force myself to get into this one. I am super upset with myself for not finishing but there are too many books out there I want to read so spending my time reading a story I cannot enjoy or get into is not enticing to me. Perhaps I'll try again in the future and hope I get sucked in.

I was riveted throughout this book. It’s been a while since I found myself having trouble putting down a book. I appreciated the multiple POV. And the ending was so satisfying.

Thank you to Netgalley for an early copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

This is my third Liane Moriarty book and I was pumped to get approved because her books are usually really good!

The story follows several passengers on a domestic flight in which an older lady tells them their cause of death and how old they will be when they die. It then jumps from her backstory to whether her predictions come true with a few different passengers.

I really enjoyed the premise and it reminded me of the The Measure in which people turn a certain age and receive a box that contains a string of how long their life would be.

I'm not sure if this was intentional or not but the chapters didn't have the narrator's name at the beginning which bothered me a little bit because sometimes it took a few sentences to realize who was talking. It might have been due to the book being an ARC though.

I would have enjoyed if there were more chapters about the different characters instead of basically half the book being about the "Death Lady" 's backstory. It also felt a bit long. I did like the short chapters and overall thought it was a good read.

Liane moriarty is an author who needs no introduction at this point. Her works have been hit and miss for me-but this one is more hit for me. Here one moment opens with an interesting premise. It’s an innocuous day and a flight like any other when a woman stands up in the aisles and begins to predict how and when various passengers on the flight will die. Many on the plane take it as the ramblings of perhaps a mentally ill woman, but the warnings still rattle them. The passengers begin to die in ways predicted and hysteria escalates among the remaining passengers as they try to escape fate.

The novel jumps back and forth between some of the main passengers and the woman (death lady as she has been dubbed), as we learn about her past and her history.

Like many of the books she writes, Moriarty once again manages a sprawling ensemble of characters, but the death lady emerges as the star. Themes of free will, grief, loss, mental illness, and family cause this to be a deeper read than some of her previous works. While there are holes in the plot (moriarty almost can’t seem to settle on a consistent thread to follow), this is a page turner that will hook readers. If you are a fan of moriartys works, check this out, if you are a new fan or one looking to start, this one wouldn’t be a bad novel to get familiar with her!

Thanks to the publisher for providing this arc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

During a late, but otherwise seemingly innocuous flight, a woman starts predicting the cause and age of death of all the patrons. While unusual, most don’t think too much of it; until her predictions start coming true. Is it coincidence or true predictions? This story follows the time after the flight with several passengers as well as the history of the woman behind the predictions.

I am a fan of Liane Moriarty’s works. I usually find them to be a fairly easy, compelling read. This one was an enjoyable read, but I did find it a bit hard to really get into the rhythm of things with this story.

The chapters are mostly alternating between Cherry (The Death Lady) and differing passengers from the flight. I think this is another one of those stories that suffers from following the perspectives of a large cast of characters and having some much more interesting than others.
Unfortunately, the most abundant of chapters followed Cherry, and I found those the ones that I wanted to rush through the most. I was much more interested in many of the other characters, but we only got to experience a pretty superficial amount with each of them. This probably would have been more enjoyable if we only followed a few characters rather than 7ish.

You never felt like the stakes were that high for the characters. I wanted to see at least some of them put a little more weight into believing the predictions, but almost all of them brushed it off (except for the young mother, Paula).

I still enjoyed the read, but I felt like it could have been more.

3.5 rounded up to 4.

I needed more from this book, HERE ONE MOMENT, and this author, Liane Moriarty. The author has become very popular from her previous work and subsequent translations on screen. This newest work is a hybrid fiction that offers a suggestion of psychic magic with a large dose of anticipatory grief mixed with an outsized role for determinism. It’s somewhat of a mess, actually. If Moriarty had chosen even one direction and devoted herself to it, the book could have been quite good. There are too many characters with half-hearted backstories. And a protagonist that takes too many pages to become compelling. I received my copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Okay, this one is not for those with high anxiety that constantly worry about something happening to their loved ones!! I couldn't relax while reading this until I was about halfway through it. I would have been a mess if I were a passenger on this airplane. I loved the idea of this novel but wanted it to follow a different path. I didn't care for the "Death Lady" until I was about 3/4 of the way through the book. Her storyline ended up being incredibly sweet and painful to go through. How could anyone blame her for what she did on that plane after going through so much? While this isn't my favorite Liane Moriarty novel (I'm sorry!), I'll still be highly recommending this to everyone. It's a great read for 2024!

This is such a unique and engaging read. Despite the longer length of the book, I flew through it in a day. I couldn't put it down after reading the opening scene with the ominous predictions by 'The Death Lady.' I just needed to know how her predictions would play out and what would become of the interesting cast of characters introduced on the plane. I enjoyed how the plot unravelled. I don't want to elaborate for fear of spoilers, but if you like slightly out-there suspense books, you won't want to miss this one.