Love, love, love Liane Moriarty! If you're a fan of her collection, you will devour this book and if you are new to Liane Moriarty, you have some catching up to do!

I love Liane Moriarty and her writing. Her cast of characters with dual POVs always suck me in! The perspectives in this one made you pause. She will always be my go to when I'm in a reading rut.

I was immediately intrigued by the premise of this book - a woman predicts the age and cause of death on passengers of a plane. Throw in that I have loved all of the Liane Moriarty books I’ve read and I was sold. However, this one fell a little flat. As per usual I loved all the characters she created, but there were so many characters and the jumping back and forth was at some times was challenging to get through.
While I enjoyed the ending and I’m glad I finished it, it wasn’t my favorite book by this author.

Thank you to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for a copy of this book.

If someone could tell you exactly how and when you would die, would you want to know? For the people on this Australian flight, one psychic makes a prediction for every person on board. People write her off as insane, suffering from delusions, but when the predicted deaths start coming true, some of the passengers begin to panic, especially those who had a prediction within the next few years.

I thought this was a really unique concept, and I was genuinely curious the whole time to see how this would end. The story has a ton of people it follows - the "death lady" fortune teller, a woman who is told she'd die this year from self harm, a woman who is told her son would die from drowning at age 7, a couple where the wife is supposed to die from domestic violence, a woman who would get sick, a man who would die in a bar fight, a man who would die at work, and then some.

It definitely was a lot to keep track of, and there were some story lines that I was invested in more than others. The people who I cared about I really enjoyed their chapters and wanted to get back to them. The people I cared less about I found myself racing through their chapters to try and get back to the parts I enjoyed.

I guess that's the risk you run when there are so many POVs to follow, but overall I really liked this story and it's definitely one that stands out from other things I've read. This did make parts of the book a little bit slower than I would have liked, which is why I dropped my score down to a 3.5, but it is definitely still one I recommend just to have a taste of something different. I have a feeling this will be a plot that is hard to forget!

3.5 stars

“The thing is, you can’t always choose your future. Not in a world of risk and uncertainty. No matter what the self-help gurus tell you. You can only attempt to guide it in the right direction, like a willful horse, but accept there will be times when it will gallop off in a direction not of your choosing.”

On an airplane flight, a woman stands up and begins predicting the passenger’s age of death and cause of death. It clearly stirs up a lot of emotions and many of the passengers take what she says to heart, which brings up some interesting questions.

If you knew when you would die and/or how you would die, how would you change how you live? Would you want to know this information?

Moriarty’s premise was super interesting to me. For the first 25%, I was really interested. But then the story slowed waaaay down and I even contemplated DNFing it. Like I said, the premise is there, but the execution didn’t hit for me.

There are books out there that does this better: The Immortalists, The Measure, and even maybe The Change.

Laine Moriarty has a particular skill in weaving a story from the start to finish that ends in a perfect tapestry. This happens again in Here One Moment starting with a harrowing story of a psychic giving death predictions to everyone aboard a plane. From there unveils a story of what would you do if you thought you only had a bit of time left to live or, if your date of death was approaching in the very next year? What could have been a very depressing story to read turned out to be one that really made me think. As the characters had to re prioritize what they wanted in the time they might have had left it made me think about what's most important as well.

I good read overall and I would recommend, especially if you are a fan of other Laine Moriarty books.

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

A seemingly ordinary flight is abruptly interrupted when an elderly woman begins predicting the ages and causes of passenger's deaths. What a highly captivating premise!

Unfortunately, the writing was all over the place and felt very chaotic, making the novel fall flat overall. It gave off similar vibes to The Measure but had enough of a different storyline to not feel redundant for those that have read/will read both novels. The sheer page count of this lengthy novel coupled with the slow pacing made it a difficult read to get through.

I had a hard time connecting with the multitude of characters. Given the number of perspectives and their rapid shifts, it wasn't always immediately clear whose point of view you were following at the beginning of each chapter.

While this book was a miss for me, I’m still a fan of the author and look forward to her future works.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the opportunity to read this digital ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

A Thought-Provoking and Inventive Story

SUMMARY
A female passenger rises from her seat in the middle of a flight and goes seat by seat, predicting the date and manner of each passenger's death. The passengers are horrified, and the flight attendants are of little help. After the flight, the passengers react differently to their predictions. After three of the short-term predictions of the date and manner of death come true, many start to panic, while others attempt to find this unknown psychic.

REVIEW
When is an airplane flight, not just an airplane flight? Here One Moment is a thought-provoking and inventive story. Liane Moriarty's writing is intriguing, but sometimes felt a little jarring with abrupt chapter ends. The book started off slow, but once the short flight took off and got to cruising altitude, the fun began as a woman, presumably a psychic, rose from her seat and sealed their fate.

The story follows six passengers after the flight, including the psychic Cherry and one of the flight attendants. I found it challenging to keep track of the names of the passengers and their family members. The chapters alternated between the six passengers, and it would have been helpful and easier to follow if the chapter headings indicated which passenger the chapter was about.

Thanks to Netgalley for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher Crown Publishing
Published September 10, 2024
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Thank you to Liane Moriarty and NetGalley for allowing me to read the ARC of this story. Overall, I thought the book was okay. I thought it was going to be more of a thriller, but that really isn't the case for the plot of the book. Overall, I liked how the book ended.

Here One Moment is another great book by Liane Moriarty. The interesting text and the short chapters drew me quickly through the story. 500+ pages (don't let this scare you) and a day later, I'm left contemplating what I've just read. . I'm a big fan of Moriarty's writing; this novel does not disappoint. Thanks, NetGalley and the publisher, for providing me with the ARC ebook I read and reviewed. All opinions are my own.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of this fantastic novel. Live in the moment! This book makes you think about life even after you finish the last page. It will encourage incredible discussions for classrooms and bookclubs. The variety of characters in this novel allow every reader to relate to someone. Moriarty does it again...another winner!

Thanks to the NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy. I really enjoyed this book. I put off starting it for a bit because it is 500 pages, but the short chapters made it fly by. I loved the Death Lady character and how all of the other characters were all related in some way at the end. I even liked the somewhat corny epilogue. I had gone off Moriarty since Nine Perfect Strangers, but I think I’m back after this one.

Thank you to Liane Moriarty, NetGalley, and Macmillan Publishing for the early release of Here One Moment. Moriarty is becoming one of my favorite authors. All of her books have a way of pulling you in from the first page and keeps you on your toes engrossed in the story throughout.

Imagine this - you are on a plane and a random woman comes up to you and tells you the age you are going to die and your cause of death. The shock, fear , maybe even some skepticism you feel is all valid. You could either take what this woman has said with a grain of salt or take measures into your own hands and try to fight fate. While each passenger’s lives continue after getting off that fateful plane they all begin to realize that maybe this woman knew what she was talking about when premonitions begin to come true.

Can we fight fate? Whether you die tomorrow or die in 50 years from now is our fate already sealed? Are there people who walk among us that can tell the future? A lesson about life, love , and loss wrapped into one in this incredible read.

This book releases this Tuesday September 10th. It is the perfect read to add to your fall tbr!

4.5 stars!

Here One Moment is on my OGT list! What a thought-provoking story, raising the questions of destiny, fate and the ability to see the future. There is quite the cast of characters to follow, yet they all have a role to play and fit well into the story. I especially enjoyed traveling memory lane with Cherry, to see how she arrived to being on the plane. An unexpectedly deep and heart warming story.

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

The topic for this book isn't new -- what if you knew when you were going to die? It's been covered in a number of recent books. But this didn't feel repetitive, or reductive in the least. I loved every single second I was reading it. It's over 500 pages, and I absolutely would have kept reading for another 500. I felt SO connected to every single character, and I wanted to know so much more about their lives and what happened to them after the book ended. My biggest complaint is that the epilogue was not enough! This is funny, emotional, tense, frustrating, just every emotion. I really can't recommend enough, this will certainly be one of my top five of the year.

How did this person who writes books I would normally never pick up become one of my favorite authors?
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!
As with other of Liane’s books, about 50% of the way in I thought, “What is this and why am I reading it?” But by the end I ended up literally having a full body dopamine rush and happy tears in my eyes. This ranks up there with my favorites of her books.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
General Fiction / Mystery-Thriller
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Add this one to your TBR or hold your place in line at the library! 
Liane Moriarty's newest release begins on a delayed flight in Australia in which "The Death Lady," begins predicting age and cause of death for various passengers. This is obviously disturbing to some, while others brush it off as a prediction from a crazy old lady. After the flight we follow a handful of passengers while they handle, in their own ways, the predictions they received while we also learn The Death Lady's history. 
In the weeks and months after the flight the characters contemplate fate vs. free will: can you change your fate or is everything predestined? Simultaneously, The Death Lady makes us contemplate fate vs. statistics and cognitive biases. 
- Liane Moriarty, I feel, is a savant at character work and really fleshing out each character, even with as big as her casts are- I loved how the story lines wrapped up in the end- This book really hit me in the mortality-feels: GO LIVE YOUR LIFE! - Every book of Liane Moriarty’s that I have read has made me actually LOL in places, including this one! - I considered rating this one lower because of the length, but ultimately can’t say what parts i'd cut either, so here we are at a solid 5!
Thank you to @crownpublishing and @netgalley for the advanced e-copy!

I could NOT put this book down! I was hooked from the first page. The premise of the book really intrigued me - the idea that a sweet looking old lady might stand up in the middle of a flight and start predicting (accurately!) age and cause of death for each of the passengers was juuust believable enough to suck me in. I really enjoyed following the threads of each of the different passengers and how the predictions impacted their lives. The writing was sharp and witty and each of the characters felt fully fleshed out. Cherry's back story felt a little long winded at some points but by the end it was clear how everything tied together and impacted the plot. I really loved this book and would highly recommend it to anyone!

I love Liane Moriarty. She writes these complex layered stories about the inter-connectedness of people and their seemingly inconsequential actions and interactions. Her stories are always more than they seem, with each tendril of story curling back to wrap around another. Her characters are complex, being oblivious and funny while being introspective and sometimes very sad, all at once.

Although there were a few rather forgettable characters, overall I really enjoyed this one.

4 Stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I was pleasantly surprised with this book! Not gonna lie, I have no liked Liane's last 2 books. This one was a winner! Lots of emotions while reading this book with the message of live your lives to the fullest.
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?