I've loved everything that Liane Moriarty has written and have been a fan since her first book, but I highly recommend not reading Here One Moment right before your plane trip - I should have waited. :)

Cherry is on a plane and suddenly starts telling other passengers when and how they will die. Everyone thinks she's just a person with issues until a few months later, people start dying as she predicted, and then more.

The storylines are more parallel than connected, and I didn't find that as easy to follow as her other books and it was very heavy on Cherry's point-of-view, but it was still an interesting and entertaining book.

The secondary characters could have been fleshed out a bit more, but we still got their stories and they were interesting.

I really enjoyed how the characters dealt with what they were told and how their destinies played out.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. All opinions are my own.

Thanks to Crown and NetGalley for this ARC. I am for sure going to have a book hangover. The best book have read this year. Once again Liane has impeccable writing. I just fell in love with the characters. This must come to the screen, Recommend!

Liane Moriarty is one of those special writers whose books are nothing short of treasures and this is one that I will never forget! It was extremely profound, compelling, thought-provoking, and laced with the perfect amount of wittiness and emotions. But be prepared, this story is a bit long-winded and not a very fast one to read. You definitely won't be able to complain about lack of character development, that's for sure! There were quite a few to keep track of, but each person's story was complete and so interesting. I had mixed feelings about Cherry's POV while reading. I was fully prepared to state in my review that her POV was unnecessary, and that the book's length could have been cut in half without all of her ramblings. I couldn't have been more wrong. Everything she says is meaningful, even if it doesn't seem so at the time. I love how it all became relative at the end and explained in its entirety. My only criticism is due to the length of the book. Since it was so long, it took a while to get back to certain characters' stories. I'd have to stop and refresh my brain to remember everything I had read previously. I would recommend trying to read this in as little sittings as possible in order to retain all of the information. Despite that, this was a fantastic book! I really enjoyed it and highly recommend!

Thank you to the author, Crown Publishing, and NetGalley for granting me digital access in exchange for my honest review!

I received Here One Moment as an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review. I have mixed feelings about Liane Moriarity. I love her old books but have struggled with her newer stories and felt similar with this one. The story starts on a plane where a passenger suddenly predicts the age and cause of death for the passengers and workers on the plane. The story then follows some of the passengers post flight to see what happens to them. When some of the predictions start to come true you see how people act as their time of death gets closer. In addition, you flash back to the entire life of the clairvoyant. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and you don't initially know who each chapter was about which got a bit confusing.
This was an easy read but felt quite long. I almost felt like there were several disconnected stories happening and I was waiting for there to be more crossover of characters than there was. This idea of what you would do if you knew how long you had to live has come out in other stories recently and I think some others, like The Measure, have done it better.

Liana Moriarty has done it again! A compelling story with interesting characters. Though readers only get brief glimpses into the many characters' lives, everyone feels complete. Though the premise reminded me of Nikki Erlick's The Measure, this story feels fresh. 4 Stars.

DNF at page 107.

I found the premise to be interesting: Cherry (not Cheryl) can predict age and cause of death, and proceeds to tell everyone on a delayed plane how it will happen.
First 15% was incredibly claustrophobic, being stuck on plane. It was a cluster of weird information, and I just couldn't see myself reading anymore at this point. I could tell it was just going to be long and drawn out, with an emphasis on Cherry, not the people on the plane who should have the main emphasis.

How would your life change if you knew your age of death/cause of death? While a plane full of passengers are given this chance, this story follows 6 and the “Death Lady” herself. Some battle mental health challenges, others are grieving themselves, and others still are stuck under the weight of life’s demands.

‘Here one moment’ is captivating from page 1. Liane manages layers of storytelling as she explores what could happen if you were told when and how you would die. The characters are enjoyable and real, the death lady brings her own flair to the story. I appreciated the depth of ‘Here one moment’ as it grapples with the grieving experience and facing our own mortality.

I was given a copy of ‘Here one moment’ in exchange of my honest review.

📖📖 Book Review 📖📖 Wow. Just wow. I was not expecting this one at all! To be honest, I hit the “request” button because I have loved everything I have read by Liane Moriarty. While this one was so different from anything I have ever read, it did not disappoint one bit! In what might be one of the worst plane rides imaginable, a psychic predicts the age and nature of the deaths of the fellow passengers on board in a pretty big spectacle. A turbulently delightful, fun, quirky existential read that will have you furiously turning the pages! How does fate fit into our daily lives and how much control do we have over our destiny?

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I’m a huge fan of Liane Moriarty’s books, I binged them all during lockdown, read Apples Never Fall cover-to-cover on publication day and have been waiting for a new one ever since.

Here One Moment tells the story of an ordinary domestic flight, and “The Death Lady” an otherwise forgettable older lady who predicts the causes of death and age at death for several unsuspecting passengers.

A few months later one of the passengers dies as predicted and the other passengers must question whether or not they believe in the predictions - ‘If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?’.

We learn all about “The Death Lady”, chapters alternate between her life story and the lives of the passengers. It’s captivating, Liane Moriarty’s character writing is as great as ever with her dry humour and witty asides. There’s lots of reflection from lots of characters, life, love, loss, grief and regrets. It’s reflective, poignant and tender, I loved it.

It’s a long book, over 500 pages and I enjoyed every minute. It’s faster than Apples Never Falls and there’s a huge one-more-chapter-factor as it switches between the various character stories.

Wonderful!

Thanks to Netgalley and Crown Publishing

This book was really, really good. Lianne Moriarty is such a fantastic author. A great story is when you can’t see how it’ll possibly end, but then the author does it so incredibly well, and to top it off you walk away from the book feeling like something in you has been positively impacted. Definitely recommend.

I’m sobbing. This book was so beautiful and inspiring. I especially related to the young mother’s POV and her story. For as long as this book is, it kept me hooked and wanting to just be constantly reading it. It also has short chapters which I love. I think the epilogue was one of my favorite parts. But overall, I just loved so many of the characters and felt so attached to them by the end, I didn’t want it to be over.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

An epic story of words to live by, or fear or to battle your beliefs.
Cherry is certainly one amazing and powerful woman. Though at times I'm sure she feels that all but true.
Her life has been full of interesting events brought together by a gift she's not sure she truly holds.
When her husband suddenly passes away she has an eventful turn of events that occur forever changing her life and many others. Some in ways more devastating then possible. All due to her grieving. As well as her believing she may have inherited her mother's psychic ability.
Devastating, heartbreaking and grief all play a major part in this unforgettable story.
Not all things go as predicted. This book has some beautifully preserved moments full of loving memories and times with Cherrys friends and family. Which rounds out the story in such a positive way.
This is a truly remarkable book.
5 Stars

4.5 stars

Thank you NetGalley and Liane Moriarty for the chance to read this book.

I loved it so much! It’s only not 5 stars because some parts felt like a bit too much filler storyline and I felt I didn’t need to read it all. Other than that, I loved the characters and seeing how everyone reacted to their “death date” and how the did everything they could to figure out who Cherry was.

I loved Cherrys love stories, and her mother’s predictions for her life and the connections we see later on that help bring everything full circle.

Side note - Neve falling and just laying there while the dog licked her made me literally laugh out loud, and she might have been my favorite side character!

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

This started off really strong: a woman walks through an airplane, pointing at each person and telling them how and when they will die. It’s a viral video waiting to happen! When her predictions start coming true, each person whose deaths are approaching begins to lose it. I was let down by the ending and wanted more, but overall it was a great read with a unique plot. Loved the short chapters too.

I couldn’t stop thinking about this book! Mysterious, hopeful and filled with lessons about life’s hard truths. Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this ARC!

Passengers all on a flight are given a prediction from lady death. Many don’t take it seriously until her predictions start coming true. From there we are taken through a few of the passengers POV as they struggle with disbelief, free will and fate. The overall story was beautifully written and more positive than I thought it’d be.

Wow. I am speechless. I love Liane Moriarty’s books and this one exceeded my expectations. As passengers encounter “The Death Lady” on a short flight, they learn of their predicted age and cause of death. Predictions start coming true which causes them to evaluate their lives and decide how they will live with the time they have left. I couldn’t put this book down the moment I started reading it – I was captivated from the first page. I can’t stop thinking about how beautifully woven aspects of this story are – in ways that were completely unexpected. I also can’t stop reflecting on the importance and brevity of our lives – and what would I do if I knew I only had a short amount of time left? Or what are the downstream effects of decisions and actions we make each day? This was a great read! Thank you Crown Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC!

Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty, is an attention grabbing novel from the very beginning. How would you react if a stranger came up to you and calming stated your cause of death and your age when it would happen? Would you immediately dismiss them as a deranged person or would her words haunt you from that moment on. This book is about a women on an airplane who methodically approached most of the passengers and informed them of their future deaths. Many of the passengers were affected in different ways and their stories are presented here. I also liked how Moriarty, in alternating chapters, portrayed the life of this woman who gave out the predictions. I would say this is one of Liane Moriarty’s best books.

Beautiful, unique story and amazing writing. I'll be thinking of this book for a long time. Highly recommended.

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ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Here One Moment is the highly anticipated new novel by Liane Moriarty. In this book the theme of living your life to the fullest is explored.

I have never been disappointed by a Liane Moriarty book and I still haven't been! I thought the story was unique and thought provoking. I enjoyed the alternating timeline/view points. I became very invested in each character.

I was given this book in exchange for my honest opinion. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

This new book by Liane Moriarty is really interesting and I was sucked in from the start. A woman traveling on a plane gets up and tells everyone on the flight how old they'll be when they die and what they'll die from. The story, then, is what happens to several of the people who were informed of their demise, interspersed with the life story of the woman (who comes to be known as the Death Lady). I liked all the characters, and really did not want any of them to die (especially in the ways they suspected). In typical Moriarty fashion, there are a LOT of characters in this book, and I could have probably done with one fewer (probably either Leo or Ethan). I think the Death Lady's stories went on a bit long as well. All in all, it was a good read that just needed a bit tightening up.