One of my favorite authors. This one started a little slow for me, but picked up around 25% in and I thought it was one of her best from there! As with many of her books, it's a little strange, but I loved the story, the character development, and the overlapping twists.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC!

I was nervous about this book because it had a lot of pages....but it was amazing! Moriarty has a way with words and I could see what I was reading and the anticipation kept me turning the pages!

I have been very disappointed in most of the books I've been reading so I was very optimistic when I started seeing positive reviews and lots of praise for Lianne Moriarty's new book. I was hoping this would be the book to finally get me out of my book rut.

This was probably not the best book to start reading on the second anniversary of my mom's death.

I was interested in the 6 passengers on the flight and was curious what was going to happen to Leo, Ethan, Timmy, Allegra and the bride. The Cherry chapters ruined the book. At 512 pages, this book is way to long. It was painful to get through it and I admit I started scanning because I completely lost interest and felt like it was never going to end. There were way too many characters that Cherry interacts with

After being such a huge fan of The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies, her books have become major letdowns. Taking one of the characters advice to "live each day as it might be your last" I strongly recommend not to waste your time reading this. I'm confused how it's getting high ratings.

This was such a unique book! I love it when I read something that feels new and fresh.

I would have liked to see the chapters labeled with who's POV it belongs to and I feel like it really didn't need to be this long but I was definitely engaged and entertained

#haveUread Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty? ✈️🔮✨

"My mother used to say 'La vita va veloce': this life goes fast, much faster than time."

A plane full of strangers are left feeling uneasy when a woman walks down the aisle and gives every passenger a cause of death and age of death. Months later, as the predictions start coming true, panic ensues.

Here One Moment is giving The Measure by Nikki Erlick (5⭐️ read, highly recommend) meets The Maid by Nita Prose (quirky female MC).

I enjoyed the concept and especially enjoyed the conversational writing style Moriarty used. There was a plethora of characters, which was confusing at times. The chapters were short, which kept me flipping the pages quickly.

My biggest issue with this book is that in no universe did it need to be 512 pages (512 pages!!!).

Here One Moment was my 6th Liane Moriarty novel and I plan to continue picking up what she writes next.

3⭐️

Absorbing. Puzzling. Thought-provoking.

This book is all of the above and more as it relates to the idea that someone has the ability to predict one’s future. We call it fortune telling. Many of us are curious of what’s to come so that we can have a better sense of controlling our outcome.

The story starts on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia. It was delayed on the tarmac for 92 minutes and everyone was annoyed. An older woman whom was later called, “The Death Lady” pointed to each person and said: cause and date of death such as a stroke, age 72; heart disease, age 84; pancreatic cancer, age 66; workplace accident, age 43. At first people suspected she had dementia. And yet, what if she was right? Of course, it would change their lives.

It gets complicated. Many of us want to believe that we have free will with our decisions in life. Yet, there’s the idea of “determinism” whereas every decision made is casually inevitable and everything is caused by something else.

The plot was cleverly written. The first half of the book was engaging following the lady that made the predictions and a few of the passengers on this flight. It made me think about the idea that books, signs or symbols could have some special meaning in our lives.

The characters were well defined and likeable. I could understand their fears of the predictions. However, I think the story slowed down with the second part which could have been reduced by a number of pages with the same effect. The last few chapters really picked up the pace with a solid, insightful conclusion.

My thanks to Crown Publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book with an expected release date of September 10, 2024.

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Liane Moriarty’s books are almost always five-star reads for me, and this book was no exception! I was thrilled when I got this e-arc (thank you Crown Publishing and NetGalley!), even though I wasn’t sure I was going to love this one based on the premise. I’m so glad to have been wrong; I really, really enjoyed this. Liane Moriarty is a master of writing suspenseful books in which you really care about the characters. I cared so much about every character whose point of view we experienced, especially our main protagonist: the woman who predicted the deaths. One thing aspect I love about Moriarty’s books is that I fly right through them, as though they’re a beach read, but they always leave me contemplating deep themes. And she always sticks the landing! Sometimes I think that books over 500 pages feel too long (similarly, no movie, other than Titanic, should be over 2 hours, in my opinion!) but I would have GLADLY read another 100 pages of this book. As soon as I finished, I told my husband that I’m headed to the bookstore tomorrow to find the two Moriarty books I somehow haven’t read yet. An easy five stars!

Would you want to hear the age & cause of your death if it was possible for someone to predict?

That’s the underlying theme to Liane Moriarty’s new book (Pub date: Sept. 10). During a flight, a strange woman stands up suddenly & predicts the “cause of death, age of death” for every single passenger.

Is it fate? Is she a psychic?

It can’t be a total hoax because her predictions start to come true in the following months.

Here One Moment gives “The Measure” vibes with a unique spin/twist. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

In true Liane fashion, the characters’ stories weave together just when you think everything is randomly independent of each other.

Slow beginning and it took me a bit to get used to the scattered minds of a few characters. But about 25% in, when I got used to the pacing, I got hooked and invested in the story. The ending was worth it, and wrapped up brilliantly.

I recommend giving this one a go if looking for something a bit different to kick off fall reading! You may cry a few mins but totally worth it!

Thank you 🙏🏼 @netgalley @crownpublishing for this #advancedreaderscopy

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I love Liane Moriarty and Here One Moment solidified her as one of my favorite authors! Everyone is excited and stressed at the airport. Thinking about connections, delays and whether they packed their earbuds. They all board the plane, no one paying attention to the lovely, yet ordinary woman of a certain age. Takeoff is delayed and the passagers get restless, as passengers do. The woman stands up, walks down the aisle pointing in turn at each passenger stating the age and cause of their death!
Lovely, awful, quirky characters drive the multiple POV story. Will her predictions come true or can they cheat death? Themes of mortality (duh), grief, family and finding joy in each day we’re given. I want now want to listen to the audio book and let the story wind and pull and push. I slowed down my reading at the end, not quite ready to leave these characters. A great fall read.

Would you want to know the age and manner of your death? How would you live your life differently if you did know? This is the premise of the Liane Moriarty's book, Here One Moment. While on a flight, the Death Lady moves about the cabin doling out the future of everyone on board whether they want to hear it or not. The book unfolds from there following the reaction of several of the passengers and a flight attendant, while also giving the backstory of Cherry, aka the Death Lady. This story really held my attention as I followed the lives of these people and tried to put myself in their places. Would they all die as she predicted or was there a way for them to prove her wrong and cheat death? And why did Cherry do that? Was she conscience or in some kind of spiritual trance? Besides all of this, there were some great twists, tying several of the stories together at the end which was a nice surprise. It makes the reader stop to think about how they might change their life after learning that they are on borrowed time. Are you making the right things a priority in your life? What a great realistic mystery! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing as well as the author for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I was fortunate enough to receive this book as an ARC from NetGalley!

Liane Moriarty continues to be my favorite author. Here One Moment focuses on six plane passengers who are foretold their deaths and age of death by “The Death Lady”. The book then follows the lives of those passengers and The Death Lady after they deplane.

This book now joins Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall and Nine Perfect Strangers in my top favorite Liane Moriarty novels. I was hooked from the very beginning and didn’t want it to end.

I would recommend Here One Moment to those who have read Moriarty’s books in the past or those who love unique concepts and compelling storylines that make you think deeply about the true meaning of life.

I am a big fan of the author Liane Moriarty so when I was selected to receive an advanced reader copy from NetGally for her new book, Here One Moment, I was super excited! The story starts off with a bunch of strangers on an airplane from Hobart to Sydney where this nondescript woman starts walking the aisles predicting everyone's age and cause of death. From there we learn that some of her predictions start to come true! Story start off exciting, intriguing, but from there is slowly dwindles.

From there the storyline is all over the place with different characters being introduced but we don't necessarily learn in-depth about all of them. These characters are trying to put steps in motion to prevent their unlikely demise. If you read the book "The Immortalists" by Chloe Benjamin then you will see that the storyline is pretty much the same. However, the characters in "The Immortalists" are more likable than in "Here One Moment".

This book also reminded me of aGarry Marshall movies " Valentine's Day" and "New Years Eve" where all of the characters are interrelated even though the viewer doesn't know it at the time. Personally, this book felt unoriginal to me and uninspiring to me.

Liana Moriarty writes the best stories that make you think deeply and relate lessons to your own life, while keeping you thoroughly entertained and immersed in the characters and moments in their lives. What a great read, I highly recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley for this eARC gift in exchange for my honest review.

This is one of those books that hits all of the marks; character development was perfection, the backstory was interesting, and the reader had closure on all of the characters stories.

What would you do differently if you knew when you were going to die? Maybe you would travel more or spend time with loved ones. Possibly reconnect with a lost friend or change your career...maybe leave the workforce all together.
I do not want to give too much away; the book follows the life of Cherry, the “Death Lady” as she would come to be known, and several passengers aboard what should have been a short, uneventful flight.
I loved that we followed and had closure on each of the characters. Even more interesting is how Cherry appeared in their lives later on, by total coincidence.
This book is about fate, faith, friendship, love, and so many other things. I absolutely recommend this book, easily my best read of the year.

Huge thanks to Crown Publishing, NetGalley, and the author for the ARC.

I found this book really interesting and there were times I couldn't put it down, but then also times when I didn't want to pick it up. I had a hard time following all the characters and remembering their back stories. And when it went back to the main character, it took me out of the story as it went through her history. That said, I found it really well written because I definitely wanted to find out what happened next! I give this a 3.5 stars and would recommend it to others. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Short review: The summary intrigued me and the story held up for the most part - it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time and I flew through it. I could have done with less chapters narrated by Cherry, but did understand the purpose for them.

Longer review: As someone who lives two time zones away from many of their friends and family, I fly enough to know how much it sucks by itself, so when you add in a 90-minute delay and a Death Lady spewing uninvited predictions to a trapped audience, that sounds like a nightmare - or a really intriguing book plot! I'm sure many people would love to know the means and date of their inevitable death, but I'm not really one of them. Still, HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty captured my intrigue with the creative idea of whether or not we can fight our fate once we know what is is, and I was so excited when I got approved for an advance copy on Netgalley.

The story held up and kept me in suspense throughout the entire book, although I found myself skimming the chapters narrated by the Death Lady, Cherry. I understand why her point of view was important, but her voice got stale very quickly for me. After starting off with her succinct predictions for others on the plane, it was weird to get so much more detail about her own life leading up to that moment. With her analytical personality and the example she had set, I would have thought she'd have given more of a summary rather than what felt like ramblings. I guess this conveyed the shame she felt about what had happened, but it didn't work for me.

After reading HERE ONE MOMENT, I find myself reflecting on what, if anything, I would do differently if I had been on that plane. Everyone who heard their predictions (and probably even those who didn't) was forever changed by that flight, and it was interesting to see who decided to make a change and who resigned themselves to what they thought was their fate.

I really enjoyed this book, but probably won't read it again. I could see it translating well to a TV show, though; if that happens, I'll re-read it before watching.

Thank you to Penguin Random House and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy!

I've enjoyed Liane Moriarty's books for years--especially those that include a bit of magical realism. Can a psychic predict the date and cause of death of all the passengers on a plane? Moriarty will have you questioning this throughout the entire novel! I'm still on the fence as to what to believe really happened. Finding out the identity of the "mystery woman" and hearing her backstory along the way was a nice addition. It took me a little longer to read this book and to remember each character along the way, but I ended up really enjoying how their stories connected and unfolded in the end. The questions remain: .Would you really want to know when and how you'll die? If you knew (or thought you knew) how you'll die, what would you do differently? More importantly, are we in charge of our own fates or is everything predestined?

Here One Moment was a fantastic read. In true Liane Moriarty fashion, the twists and turns uncovered at the end really tie everything together. I did have a bit of trouble at the beginning trying to keep the many characters straight, but as the story progressed and the reader learns more about each character, that became easier. I always enjoy reading books with points of view from different characters, and this had no shortage of that. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The way the storylines are wrapped up were gratifying and really made the book feel complete.

This book was very interesting. I loved how it showed different people’s stories and jumped to different stories or time throughout the entire book. I loved the ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing as well as the author for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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Title: Here One Moment
Author: Liane Moriarty
Format: Ebook
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Publication Date: September 10, 2024
Themes: Death, family, psychic abilities, fear, appreciate living, friendship, mother/daughter relationships, father/daughter relationships, grief
Trigger warnings: death, psychic, talk of suicide, talk of mental illness, grief, air travel, marriage, divorce, alcoholism, talk of child death,

This book tells the story of Cherry and the plane full of people that she affected. Unremarkable Cherry stands up in the middle of a flight and begins predicting the ages and manners of the deaths of each passenger. The passengers include a brief and groom, an unaccompanied, six-year-old minor, a mother with an infant and a toddler and a harried family man, among many others. When the predicted deaths start to occur in the same manner and age that they were predicted, the other passengers begin to panic.

It's been awhile since Ms. Moriarty has released a book. I always enjoy her work and this one is no exception. The story is a wonderful character study disguised as a mystery. The reader spends the whole book guessing about what will happen to whom. Will the bride really be killed by her new husband in her twenties? Will a compulsively likable older couple be devastated by the wife’s pancreatic cancer? Will the infant really drown when he’s seven? How awful! Is Cherry a psychic with a supernatural gift or she is just a really great actuary? Each of our cast of characters become dear to us as we get closer to some of their death dates and we grieve and fear along with each of them and their families. As Cherry says during her predictions, “Fate Won’t Be Fought”. Is that true? I loved how the points of view kept changing as we got to know each character, including Cherry. Her life story is so interesting and quirky. I missed her when I finished the book.

Please do yourself a favor and read this story. Cancel your weekend plans. Be sure not to fly. Enjoy!