I have been waiting for Laine Moriarty's latest book since I finished Apples Never Fall and I was not disappointed.

If someone told you when and how you would die, would you take it seriously? Would you accept your destiny or try to change it? That's the decision the passengers on one airplane flight are faced with.

This book is entertaining and will also make you think. Liane does a great job of developing characters that the reader can become invested in. Another great book from this wonderful author.

I can't wait for her next release!

I’ve seen a couple series based off of Liane Moriarty’s novels and really enjoyed them, but I’ve actually never read any of them. I was so excited when I got approved to read an ARC of Here one Moment.

The premise immediately piqued my interest and I couldn’t wait to read more! A Psychic on a flight starts predicting age and cause of death for several passengers. Obviously, a majority of these passengers are distressed and panic ensues. After the flight, the story alternates between the Psychic’s (Cherry) and some of the passengers POV’s as they navigate life post-prediction.

I truly thought I would love this book, but sadly I didn’t. I didn’t completely dislike it, but I didn’t really get the point of the story overall. I thought the concept was really cool and unique, the character development was very well done, and Moriarty’s writing is so good and kept my interest enough to read the entire book. However, I just felt a bit underwhelmed at the end.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for providing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review. Even though this novel wasn’t a favorite, I’m looking forward to reading more by Liane Moriarty!

Another absolute gem by Liane Moriarty.

Passengers on a plane are delayed on their flight to Sydney. Nobody notices the older lady sitting in the front of coach until she stands and starts giving each passenger a prediction. What is the prediction? Their age and how they will die. Besides being creeped out by the predictions, no one takes them seriously, that is until they start coming true.

The main character of the book is Cherry. We follow her life and why she is on the plane and why she is giving out prescriptions for dying. Intertwined are the stories of six passengers who were all given the age and type of death prediction. We watch as they navigate the probability of those predictions coming true. This book forces you to contemplate, what would you do with your life if you knew how and when it was going to end.

Moriarty has a gift for rich character development. You really get to know the characters of this story. I also think Moriarty finds a way to intersect the lives of the characters in a way that is not forced, but organic, and this adds so much to the story. The multiple points of view keep the story moving along and I kept finding myself saying-just one more chapter.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

Publication date: September 10th, 2024
Page number: 512
Audio length: -
Narrator: -
Genre: suspense
POV: multiple
Setting: multiple

Unique plot. A woman boards a plane, and doles out predictions of passengers deaths. And some of the deaths come true, scaring and forming the lives of the remaining passengers. Stirs contemplation of life and death, and what one would do if they can predict how and when they would die, and how that may change the course of their life.

The pause between the chapters was VERY long.

Thank you to author, publisher, NetGalley for advanced audio copy. This is an honest voluntary review.

absolutely loved the premise of this book. An old lady gets on a plane and predicts the day and manner of death of everyone on board. Then, a few of the passengers end up dying in the way she predicts. This book follows multiple POV’s including several people from the plane and the ‘psychic’.

For one, the book started off really strong and I loved the feelings of tension and suspense the author created. However, as the story went on, a large portion of the book followed the lady on the plane’s story and if I’m being honest, I just felt a bit bored by hers. I don’t what it really added to the book. I kept waiting to read the stories of the other passengers from the plane because they were more interesting.

Overall, I still enjoyed the book and I did like how several of the storylines intersected with each other. That was very clever, but this just fell a little flat as execution of the storyline. I feel like it could have been so much more.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for this e-copy in exchange for my honest review.

Liane Moriarty's latest novel is a 126 chapter fascinating exploration of impending death. Cherry, a retired actuary, who is flying to Sydney to spread her husband's ashes, walks up the plane aisle and tells each passenger their cause of death and age of death. The novel provides the background stories of several characters on the flight and details their reactions to the possibility that their lives may end soon. When several passengers die according to Cherry's predictions, social media fires up with a hashtag: Death Lady. Here One Moment is highly recommended for discussion groups who enjoy big novels.

Wow! I’m hit or miss with Moriarty’s books, but this one knocked it out of the park. Such a unique plot and well written characters! I really really enjoyed this one!

his felt like a huge departure from Moriarty's usual domestic suspense writing. I went into this so excited, because Moriarty never disappoints me. I loved Apples Never Fall and Big Little Lies, but Here One Moment let me down.. I think what made me uneasy about this (and was probably Moriarty's intention) was that the entire book, I was waiting for the characters to die. I felt a sense of anxiety and dread when I would arrive at a characters chapter thinking, "Is this it?" In true Moriarty fashion, there are several characters to keep track of right off the bat with unique stories (so get your notepad ready) and I didn't feel like I was really connected with any of their life stories. Also, the ending felt rushed and kind of annoyed me.

One day, hundreds of passengers took your average flight from Hobart to Sydney, only this flight would be anything but ordinary. After hours of delays, the passengers finally feel a little bit of relief as their plane finally takes off. About midway through the flight, an older normal looking woman, stands up and begins telling each individual passenger the "age and cause of death". At first, the passengers just thought she was a cook but after each reading the passengers grew more uncomfortable with this woman hoping that the airline staff could get her to stop. Finally, after each passengers "age and cause of death" are shared. They land in Sydney to (hopefully) forget the madness of the flight. Months go by, and slowly it comes out that the "death womans" predictions start to come true causing chaos in the world and in the highlighted characters personal lives.

If you like clarivoyants, questioning fate, and some family drama than you should pick this one up!

Thank you to Crown Publishing of Penguin Random House for the ARC!

What would you do if someone told you when and how you were going to die?

4 1/2 ⭐️ rounded up to 5!

I really loved this book! Classic Liane Moriarty with multiple characters and their storylines all interconnecting. The story grabbed me from the beginning with its interesting premise and plot, and kept me engaged throughout.

I had a hard time connecting with Cherry’s backstory at first, but liked how it all came together in the end. I was really rooting for some of the characters and felt really tense at times wondering if their predictions were about to come true. I absolutely loved Ethan’s story as well as Paula and her infant son. (Imagine someone telling you your beautiful baby was going to drown at 7 years old! 💔😭) I cried at baby Timothy’s storyline in the end of the book!

This was a great read! Thank you to NetGalley and Crown publishing for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

SYNOPSIS
- Passengers on a short, domestic flight in Australia from Hobart to Sydney expect an uneventful 90 minute flight. Unfortunately, they get more than they bargained for.
- Cherry, aka “The Death Lady”, is also a passenger on the flight. She makes her way down the aisle telling passengers the age they will die & their manner of death. Some folks learn they will live a long life, but for 6 people, their predictions are shockingly soon.
- We follow several folks in their life after the flight & how the predictions impact their lives, and we also learn about Cherry’s life story.

MY THOUGHTS
- Over 500 pages, but short chapters.
- Expertly developed characters. Loved how realistic they all felt.
- Thoroughly enjoyed learning Cherry’s back story.
- Multiple POVs.
- Explores statistics, different kinds of love, destiny, free will, determinism, grief, & living your best life. Makes you think a lot.
- Expertly plotted. Always love Moriarty’s writing style.

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️expertly developed characters + unique premise that makes you think. long book, but short chapters.

Thanks to Crown Publishing and Netgalley for this digital ARC in exchanges for an honest review. This book will be published on September 10, 2024.

Wow! I’m hit or miss with Moriarty’s books, but this one knocked it out of the park. Such a unique plot and well written characters, it was my fave read so far in 2024!

So excited to receive this arc. Any time Liane Moriarty even thinks of writing a book I’m all over it. As usual this novel did not disappoint. The characters and setting were top notch. Vivid and fantastic in all ways. I’ve often pondered the question: would I want to know the date and cause of my own death. Love this premise. And huge on the creep factor! Great read.
Thank you NetGalley, Liane Moriarty and Crown Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this cracker of a book.

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. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all. How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable. A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
 
Liane Moriarty is one of my favourite authors. I love her writing, she is so witty, funny and her books are heartfelt. She touched on a lot of important topics (OCD, death, grieving and relationships). I love the premise of this book and found it really interesting, I was invested in all of the characters but unfortunately I got a little bored hearing from the MC, Cherry, I found her parts to be a little too drawn out. It definitely is a lot of random banter/internal thoughts but I find that with her other books and it’s something I enjoy but I know not everyone would. (3.5 ⭐️)

✨ Thank you NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts ✨

Liane Moriarty’s name is synonymous with Amazing prose and surprise twists and turns in her novels that translate amazingly to screenplays. Here One Moment is another truly fabulous novel, that keeps you slotting the puzzle pieces together and being thrust on another twist until the last page.

Imagine going on a full plane flight, which is admittedly, stressful enough on its own. After being delayed for a trivial broken part, the passengers are now running late for things and stressed even more because they have had to be waiting and on the plane for hours past when they are supposed to be at their destination. Just as you think that it couldn’t get worse than screaming and sick kids, a woman stands up and starts pointing randomly at people, and calmly stating Age and “presumed” cause of death. Whether you want her to or not.

How accurate will she be? What about the ones who are the nearest to their presumed expiration date? What would you do? Would you change everything or nothing? Would you try to prove or disprove the “butterfly effect”?

This novel was so rich in description on character development that I felt like I Knew these characters by the end, moving me with all of the stories and resolutions.


Thank you SO much to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for this fantastic ARC!!

Moriarty knows how to keep her readers coming back for more. Her latest offering reminded me a bit of "9 Perfect Strangers" in that there is a whole cast of characters who all have one random event in common.

Spoilers below:
This book begins with a woman on an airplane who proceeds to walk through the aisle and inform each person of their predicted "Age and manner of death". As you can imagine each character who is informed of their death prediction has a vastly different response. This novel follows the life of the psychic herself as well as many of the passengers and their unfolding events. While I didn't feel the plot was the most interesting she has written, she did have some great characters. This author is great at writing dialogues and conversations that feel honest and realistic.

Overall if you have enjoyed Moriarty's other books, this will be a fine addition to your collection. A solid offering and definitely a great book for book club or weekend reading.

Thank you NetGalley for this book in exchange for an honest review.

Here One Moment by Lianne Moriarity is a gem!
The book has an interesting premise … a women on an airplane walks down the aisle predicting passengers deaths … both how and when .
The chapters move between the passengers reactions to the women’s life. Cherry’s story is engaging and heartfelt. She is a funny quirky character.
Each of the passengers stories added much to the book.
It really is a story about being mindful of how to live your life.
I highly recommend this book … by far my favorite of Moriarity.
Thanks to net galley for allowing me to read this delightful book in exchange for an honest review.

I thought that this was a very strong story from Liane Moriarty. It felt a little hard to follow with the multiple characters and the way the story was being told, and switching back and forth between how the story was told. This felt like a classic Liane Moriaty

We're all caught up in passing the time when we fly. What if, just before the end of the flight, a senior woman stands up, suddenly, one by one, giving predictions of the type and age of death.

There are multiple characters, and this is tricky, as an author, to weave the various characters, side characters, and their stories into the plot. The author did a great job with this. I felt that I got to know all of them, each having their own personalities.

This novel begs for a book club. Usually, I'm fine reading on my own, but I was wishing for someone else with whom I could discuss this book.

Everyone sort of brushes her off, until people start dying just as she said. What do you do? Change your life to try to avoid this "death sentence," life as if there were no tomorrow? It's a big concept that Moriarty handled spectacularly.

I could not stop reading "Here One Moment, but I almost wished it hadn't ended. That, to me is a 5-star book.
Some authors get stuck in a plot rut, this author was brave enough to leap out of the norm, and she did such a great job. LOVED this book.

Pre-order it- you won't be sorry.

Thank you to Crown Publishing and Net Galley for a digital ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

When the passengers and workers on a flight from Hobart to Sydney get stuck on the tarmac for an extended period of time, they think that there’s no way this flight could get any worse. That is, until a woman stands up mid-flight and begins predicting everyone’s cause of death and age of death.

The passengers have some mixed feelings as the predictions are being doled out. They either think she’s a bit dotty, they don’t even hear what she says to them, or they get upset (understandably so) and tell her she’s being rude. Afterward, most of them are able to wave it off and assume that she is just off her rocker … that is until her predictions start coming true.

How do we try to beat our predictions? Can we find the “Death Lady” and see if she can give us more insight? Do we actually believe that this is true? All questions they ask themselves.

The story follows the stories of those on the plane who received predictions and how they cope. We also get the backstory of “The Death Lady” and what led up to that fateful day for so many …

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Liane Moriarty is one of my all-time favorite authors. I was SO excited when I saw this book and I thought the plot was super intriguing. I was ravenous to finish it. I was all consumed! But then as the book was nearing an end, I became largely disappointed. There was no big plot twist or grand reveal. I don’t know exactly what I expected, but the ending just fell a bit flat for me and I was left wanting more.
I will still recommend this story to others, I just won’t hype it up as much as I initially expected I would.

Here One Moment is a story about an old woman Cherry, who while on an airplane, stands up and gives “cause of death, age of death” to everyone on the airplane. Some people find out they’re going to live to a grand old age and some find out their death is going to happen very soon. The rest of the story is what happens to each of these people with that information. What would you do if you knew how and when you would die?
This is filled with quirky personalities, funny and smart anecdotes, some heartbreaking and some heartwarming moments. It’s funny, it’s touching and I could not put it down. My favorite kind of book is one where seemingly unrelated events and characters fit together like pieces in a puzzle at the end, and that’s exactly what happens here.
If you enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry, books by Matt Haig, characters by Fredrik Backman, you will really enjoy this read.
Here One Moment is my favorite Liane Moriarty book yet. Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for my ARC.