Oh my I loved loved loved this book. It was a beautiful thriller? Mystery? I'm not sure what genre I'd call this. If you knew when and how you were going to die, what would you do with your remaining time? This was so thought provoking and sweeping.

🦋 I’ve read Liane Moriarty’s entire backlist, so I was super excited to be approved for a sneak peek at her newest novel, Here One Moment. Thank you @crownpublishing. This is out 9/10!

🦋 This book is so interesting. It’s the ‘The Measure’ meets ‘Dear Edward’ when an event happens on a plane, binding the passengers together and igniting an internet search for the woman at the very center.

🦋 This book sparks debate about fate and free will. If we know when we will die— will we finally start living? Can we change our fates if we know them ahead of time? These are narratives that have been explore before— yet this story is incredibly unique.

🦋 This book gripped me from the start, and while it felt a bit repetitive at times, I really loved how it ended!

Stuck on a plane, passengers and crew are subjected to a stranger shouting out cause and age of their expected death. As her predictions begin to come true, everyone begins to examine their life and question free will vs destiny.
Liane Moriarty is one of my favorite authors. Creating a story in the POV of so many different characters is difficult to do well and usually she does. I think she sort of missed it on this one. In her previous books, I can tell which character the POV is in because they are very distinct, but that’s not how this one read. Cherry, the main character, is the only one that really felt unique (and, frankly, I didn’t care for her). I was constantly getting Ethan and Leo confused and forgetting who Paula and Sue were. And all the characters we didn’t get POVs from, totally jumbled. There were just too many characters that seemed to blend together and it made it difficult to follow the story. It was a great premise though and I did enjoy the short, choppy chapters. The ending, overall, was wrapped up pretty well (epilogue was a nice touch) just anticlimactic. The writing it’s very easy to read and even at over 400 pages, it seemed to go quickly.
***Thank you NetGalley, Crown Publishing, and Liane Moriarty for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review***

I recently finished reading "Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty and was intrigued by the premise. The story follows a woman who can predict the cause and age of death of her fellow airplane passengers as these predictions come to fruition. The book delves into how these predictions impact the characters' lives and whether destiny can be changed. It made me think: Would knowing when and how you'll die change the way you live your life?

Although I knew Liane Moriarty's previous success, I found "Here One Moment" quite lengthy, impacting my overall reading experience. The narrative introduces six main characters who receive death predictions, and it includes chapters from a character known as the "Death Lady" or Cherry. With over 100 chapters and unclear identification, I often found myself having to backtrack to remember the character each chapter focused on. It wasn't until chapter 105 that Cherry's role became clearer, making the earlier chapters feel excessive. Additionally, extending over 500 pages, the book's conclusion left me wanting more after investing so much time in the preceding content. It felt a bit burdensome and didn't quite meet my expectations.


While this was my initial exposure to Liane Moriarty's work, I remain open to exploring her other books in the future.


It was my first exposure to Liane Moriarty's work, and I remain open to exploring her other books in the future.

Thanks to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for providing an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed within are solely my own.

Liane Moriarty never disappoints, but this might be her best work yet! From the first chapter, I was hooked and just had to know what was going to happen next. The storyline was fresh, and the characters were wonderfully written. Someone needs to make this book into a movie or a series immediately!

This book was based on an interesting premise. A women on a flight is telling people how and when they will die. I found Here One Moment enthralling and a page turner especially when the predictions start coming true. Ms .Moriarty is the master of suspense. And she does not disappoint in her latest book.

4.5! This book is nearly perfect. Fans of Liane's other works will LOVE it. TBH I was terrified by the premise but there was literally no way I wasn't going to read a Liane Moriarty book. Sorry!! The premise is stressful, especially for anxiety girlies like myself, but honestly I was able to read it for way longer chunks of time than I thought. And it was fun book too!! I wasn't expecting that!!

For me, Liane's books fly by despite their lengthy page count. I know sometimes people get bored in the middle (looking at the Nine Perfect Strangers haters!!) and if that's you, use caution!! Sometimes Cherry's chapters in the middle as well as the other flight passengers' felt dragged out and repetitive even for me. But when I tell you I literally could not put this book down for the last 30%!! I loved the way everything wrapped up in the end.

Thank you Net Galley and PRH for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

Minus being a bit lengthy, and not that twisty, I liked it. The whole theme of the book makes you think about your life and how you would spend your time if you knew it was limited or if you will live until 94. Something about Cherry really resonated with me, and I enjoyed some of the other characters as well. It will make a great book club book.

Liane Moriarty is an auto-read author for me. I was so excited to be approved to read an advanced reader copy of Here One Moment, a story about a group of passengers on a short domestic flight. And there just so happens to be a woman walking up and down the aisles, pointing at people and telling them their age and cause of death.

Some passengers are told they’ll live to see old age, but a few are told they’ll die soon – in a matter of months or years. When the first passenger dies exactly as predicted by “The Death Lady” and then two more die, the passengers from the flight are terrified that she’s right.

The story alternates between The Death Lady’s perspective (her name is Cherry) and a few of the passengers. You get a good glimpse into Cherry’s life and all the things that led her there to that day and that flight, as well as how those few passengers with terrifying death predictions deal with that knowledge. Is it real? Surely not!

I always love Moriarty’s writing, though some of her books hit better than others. This one I absolutely loved. The story was so compelling I tore through it in just a few days. There was a feeling of mystery and dread throughout the book that had me longing to see how it would all work out. I had tears streaming down my face at the end.

It reminded me of The Measure by Nikki Erlick, but better. What would you do if you knew how and when you would die? It’s a great topic for a book club read. I can’t wait for this book to come out for everyone to read it!

Thank you to @NetGalley and @CrownPublishing for the advanced reader copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

I have always loved Liane Moriarty books. I was so excited to get this one sent to me early.

If you knew your future would you try to change it? This book goes through several different characters who all meet on an air plane. Each chapter is a different character as well as the lady from the plane who is telling everyone their fate. Is she real? Is she fake? Is she a phony? One thing I did love about this book was the shorter chapters. I'm a shorter chapters kind of girl. Get to the point, lets do it. However, at times I was confused because there are so many chapters but none of them are labeled with who the chapter is about. I love making notes when I read my ARC books and would have loved to been able to bullet names and info. This book is pretty long and I feel like there was a lot of fluff in between. Not needed information. It definitely wasn't my favorite book of hers.

I was a little thrown when I started reading this book while on an airplane and the scene with Cherry predicting passengers’ deaths occurred. This book was not at all what I expected and I grew impatient with the pace earlier on in the book, but then was happily surprised by how the story unfolded. I enjoyed the connections between some of the characters and seeing how they were impacted by Cherry’s predictions and how their lives unfolded. Great book!

Moriarty has just not been hitting the mark for me lately. Her writing is fine as always, the concept was okay, but this one… missed something for me.

5 stars for this unique and compelling saga with a great ensemble cast that will leave you pondering death, life, and fate.

Filled with short punchy chapters, I flew through this read, invested in each character and eager to see how their stories would unfold. Moriarty's emotional, moving, and often comical writing kept me flipping the pages. I recommend this to anyone looking for a one-of-a-kind story filled with both mystery and drama.

I have attached my review from Goodreads below. Thank you for this story!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6735398019

Unfortunately, I did not end up finishing this book, but I think it may just not have been the right fit for me. After hearing so much about Liane Moriarty's work, but having never read any myself, I wanted to try something new. Liane's writing is fantastic and you can tell she put a lot of thought into the storyline, the characters, and the overall feel of the book. I have always been a fan of mulit-viewpoint books, and in the case, Liane did not disappoint. However, I found the story too slow for me and it never seemed to really dig its hooks into me. That being said, I have a few friends who I think this book will be perfect for and I will still be recommending it to them.

I give this 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars. This was not my favorite Moriarty read, but it still kept my attention.

I felt as though this book could have been so much more with such a great plot idea, but I felt it fell a little flat.

But thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and honestly rate this book.

A woman walks up and down the aisles of a commercial passenger airplane, pointing at people and telling them when and how they were going to die. Thank you, Liane Moriarty, for adding one more item to my Fear of Flying list. I did not expect to love this book as much as I did. The characters were multi-dimensional and likable. I was rooting for every one of them. The ending ties everything together and makes sense. As with all of Moriarty's books, it moved quickly and was well written. Now I can't wait for pub day so I can talk to my reader friends all about this book. This would make a great choice for a book club.

By all accounts, the short, domestic flight was perfectly normal until a woman stood up and started predicting when and how each passenger would die.  While disturbing, no one took her seriously until three of her predictions came true.  We follow this woman and some passengers from the plane as they navigate what could be their last moments.

Thoughts 💭
What an interesting concept!  What would you do if you knew when and how you would die?  Would you try and prevent it or accept the inevitable? Initially, it seems like no matter what they do, they can't escape their fate.  It leaves the characters and me with a helpless feeling.  It turns into much more.  What would you do if your days were numbered?  The over lying message is to not wait until the last minute to live your life because any minute could be your last (whether it's predicted by a psychic or not).

While I enjoyed the message of the book, it was really long. I felt like the same effect could have been accomplished about 100 pages sooner.  We get a lot of backstory on Cherry (the psychic), and most of it wasn't needed.  I think sending time on the passengers was more important, but even their stories dragged a little.  This was a fun read if you have patience for a longer story.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
4 stars/ 5

Liane Moriarty is one of those authors that you either love or hate. I love her, but sometimes I wish she was just a little less wordy. She does write great characters, though, and the woman can sure write an ending!
In her latest novel, Here One Moment, an older woman (maybe a psychic?) has an episode on an airplane and ends up stating the cause of death and age of death for all the passengers. This is unsettling for sure, but most people dismiss her as crazy, until her predictions start to come true...
This book is an exploration of what people do with this information. Moriarty gives us a character study of four or five of the passengers as well as the psychic and what brought her to that day on the plane. I was intrigued by the passengers stories but the psychic's was a little longer than necessary.
Here One Moment has a similar premise to The Measure by Nikki Erlick and if that book didn't exist, Here One Moment might have been five stars. But The Measure was so well-crafted and had such tight storytelling, that this one pales slightly in comparison.
Here One Moment is an enthralling story though and if you like character studies, you'll like this one! Thanks to @netgalley, the publisher and the author for this advance copy which I read in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am a huge lover of Liane Moriarty. The way she weaves stories together and still ends up blowing my mind, and this one was no different. I'm so grateful to @netgalley for letting me have an eARC before this book is published in September.

The story starts on a flight where a woman nobody really noticed suddenly becomes the center of attention as she points to each passenger in turn and informs them the date and cause of their death. Some passengers are thrilled as they're promised longevity and peaceful end of life. Others are devastated as they or their children are handed imminent or tragic deaths. Most of them laugh it off, but as the predictions start coming true, the jokes are suddenly not funny anymore.

I loved the aura of mystery during this book, the constant potential dread, and the ways the characters' stories interact and build while we explore some of their backstories. There were characters I loved and characters I hated and ones whose stories we just get a glimpse of. If you like Liane Moriarty, you'll love this book. If you love intersecting timelines and storylines and POVs, you won't be able to put this book down.