Just your routine flight: a crying baby, a nervous unaccompanied minor, a child with projectile vomiting. What's different is that an older woman is walking down the aisle telling her fellow passengers when they will die and what will cause their death.

"Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty is not only a story about the older woman making the predictions, but also an in-depth account of how many of the passengers react to their "death sentence."

Moriarty describes a husband who says he doesn't believe the prediction about his wife's supposed early death, and yet his wife knows he's worried. A mother takes care that her child knows how to swim so that he won't drown. An already-milquetoast kind of guy makes even more effort at avoiding conflict so he won't die in a fight.

"Here One Moment" has all the feels. What's up with the fortune teller? Will any of these passengers die as predicted? I had trouble putting the book down. It was an excellent, unusual story.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader's copy. This is my honest review.

I am a big fan of Liane's and read everything from this talented writer. This book grabbed my attention right away because of the quick sentences about passengers on an airplane. I felt like I was in the front row, observing everyone as they boarded. The drama intensifies, and the story unfolds. Well done! Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. Five stars.

The flight from Hobart to Sydney has already been delayed for two hours. The passengers are restless, checking connections and worrying about missing special events. A baby is crying. In the midst of this chaos a woman stands and slowly walks down the aisle. Soon there is silence as she points to passenger after passenger and tells them exactly when and how they will die. People try to shrug off the predictions but some, especially those whose death date is close, are unsettled by the certainty of this woman who appears to be in a trance. In the next few months, passengers will take measures to change fate - swimming lessons, changing jobs, having medical tests, avoiding possibly dangerous situations - and some will die, exactly as predicted. The search for “the Death Lady” dominates social media. Who is she and how does she know her predictions are correct? What can they do to change their future.

Here One Moment by the talented Liane Moriarty is a tour de force, a totally original page turner that combines philosophy, control, mysticism, statistics, grief and joy. The characters weave through each others’ lives in a way reminiscent of the 50s tv show The Twilight Zone. What will stay with you long after you read the final page is this question. If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do? How would you change? 5 stars. I wish there were more.

Thank you to NetGalley, Crown Publishing and Liane Moriarty for this ARC.

At first this book seemed much darker than previous Moriarity’s books. An elderly lady predicts the cause and age of everyone’s death on an airplane and quickly a few come true. The books jumps between the people on the airline and the older lady. You gradually get to know them all and how their lives are now intertwines and what the predictions do to them. I loved it by the end. Highly recommend. I’ll read anything this author writes!

I think this is my favorite Lianne Moriarty novel. It’s fast-paced and thought-provoking.
On a short, domestic flight from Hobart to Sydney, a delay frazzles the nerves of several passengers. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next: An unremarkable older woman goes down the aisles, telling people the age they’ll die and their cause of death. How do these predictions change the behavior of people on board once they get off the flight? If you knew you’d live to 100, would you take up sky diving and zip lining? (You might be an alive quadriplegic.) If you only had a short time to live, would you quit your job and spend more time with your family?

Personally, I think it might be nice to know: How much should I budget for retirement? Do I have to get a colonoscopy or mammogram if my cause of death is heart disease?

I liked the characters and their stories. Recommend.

NetGalley provided an advance copy of this novel, which RELEASES SEPTEMBER 10, 2024.

Imagine someone tells you you will be dead in a few months following a serious illness, or perhaps that someone says you will live until you are ninety and die of the "old persons friend".
How would you react? What will you do? Can you truly enjoy your remaining days when YOU KNOW what and when the end will be?
Do you even believe it?

This is that story for people on a plane flight and how one woman who claims to be a psychic decides to give them all a time frame for their lives as she strolls up and down the aisle.

I found the book thought provoking, interesting and yet a bit long. I stopped many times to think of own life.
That all being said: I did enjoy it and do recommend it!

Lesson to take away here- Live each Moment!
Thank you to @NetGalley and to @Crown Publishing for this ARC and allowing me to provide my own review.

The story is about a plane full of people on a domestic Australian flight —flying to Sydney -- when an older woman on the flight stands up and begins predicting everyone’s deaths— age and method of death. Reminiscent of the book ` THE MEASURE` would you want to know about your death -- how and what age?
This was a great read! I enjoyed it. It was full of character depth and emotional ups and downs-- happy, funny and sad. Every character has their special aspects and storylines that make the story more interesting, There are many topics covered — Grief, abuse, mental health issues, violence and the statistics behind it. This book made me feel a lot better about life and the fact that we all have to die someday.


Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for this ARC. This is my honest review!

Life can change in a minute and that's why it's important to make the most of every day. What if you knew why you were going to die? Not only how but when? What would you do with that information? Does the trickle of the hourglass's sand awaken a panic or instead, a reminder that life is fleeting?

After that fateful flight, passengers responded differently. Some guarded themselves from the truth, as if those barriers would stop the inevitable from happening. While others raced to 'fix' the situation with hopes to change the outcome. Liane Moriarty brilliantly pens a page turner that makes readers stop and ponder what they would do if the situation was reversed?

Thank you to @NetGalley and the publisher for the early edition of #HereOneMoment in exchange for an honest review. I was fascinated by the story and had to stop reading at times to contemplate my reaction. The author addresses how we see the world judge people based on appearances. Like the adage, don't judge people by their cover but this book that's even better than the cover portrays.

Here One moment by Liane Moriarty

This story follows multiple POV of people who get on a plane and are told by a woman claiming to be psychic what age each passenger will be when they die.

I’m not going to lie it was a little tough to follow and that immediately is a turn off for me with books. The initial premise was good and interesting but the layout was irritating and not interesting.

Thank you NetGalley

Thanks so much for the review copy. I was worried the book would be depressing but it had lots of happy things and important lessons. I love that Moriarty creates realistic characters.

This book made me feel...
A lady, Cherry, is on a plane when she starts handing out age & cause of death to fellow passengers...
Will they come true?
The story explores Cherry's life and also follows the lives of the passengers...how did getting these death predictions affect those who were given shorter life spans? And would the predictions come true?
This book made me feel alot...about living life, about grief and death, about how we look at what we value in life.

𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵.

One Friday afternoon, on a delayed Australian flight from Hobart to Sydney, a woman rises from her seat and begins to make predictions. For each person she comes across in the main cabin, she states a cause of death and age. Some are given a commonplace cause and a high number. Others, uncomfortably, are not given much more time or an unusual circumstance. For instance, a stressed father of three currently late for his daughter’s recital is expected to die after his next birthday from a workplace accident. A somber 29-year-old man who has just attended his friend’s funeral is expected to die from an assault when he is 30. A newlywed is expected to die from intimate partner homicide in 5 years. And so on. People are eager to brush off “The Death Lady”… but months later, when the predictions start coming true, many of the passengers and their loved ones begin to panic. What if she is a real seer? Are they able to change their fates?

Liane Moriarty’s 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 is a gripping thriller and fascinating exploration of destiny, choice, purpose, and love through the lenses of various characters. While I did appreciate the diversity of backgrounds and ages represented in the book, I did occasionally feel like there were too many viewpoints and like some scenes were “filler”; more than once, I felt restless to get to the next chapter or to meatier plotlines. Overall, though, this is a solid novel that both entertains and encourages self-reflection.

4.5 stars rounded up. Thank you to Crown and NetGalley for advance reader copy in change for an honest review.

This book really makes you think about life - destiny - what happens at the end. It’s a strange feeling to know when and how you will die - whether you wanted to or not. This book really challenges your beliefs.

There's always a little trepidation in reading a new book by a beloved author, but I should not have worried at all about this one. The eddies of storylines swirling about the main thread were all beautiful and the main thread kept me guessing. Moriarty wove the myriad threads together into a beautiful masterpiece of a tapestry. I inhaled the book, loved all of the characters I was meant to love, despised the ones I was meant to despise, and laughed out loud throughout.

Liane Moriarty is one of my favourite authors, so when I saw her newest book on @netgalley I crossed my fingers that I would be approved to read and review it. Of course I was ecstatic when I found out that I was!

Here One Moment is told through two alternating narrators, a first person narration by a woman later to become nicknamed "Death Lady", and a third person narration of a variety of secondary characters. The story begins when a woman on a plane experiences some kind of unusual psychosis and begins predicting every passenger's expected age and cause of death, whether the passengers want to hear this prediction or not. Many passengers are quite uncomfortable with these predictions, especially those with an age of death prediction that is sooner than they anticipated. In some chapters, readers learn about the woman behind these predictions and how exactly she got to this fateful plane ride filled with fortune telling, and in others we see the fall out of these predictions of the lives of the passengers and their loved ones.

As with all of Moriarty's books, there is a lot of humour and unusual characters, a mystery filled with uncanny coincidences that take the entire story to unfold, and a life lesson - in this case: live your life to the fullest because no one knows when your time is up (or do they?).

I found the "death lady" chapters slightly less interesting than the other ones, partly because we were getting a lot of backstory in each one, but were being left with cliff hangers in the other chapters that took at least 5-10 chapters to cycle back to. It is a longer book, at over 500 pages, so perhaps some of those chapters could have been pared-down a bit, but the backstory was very important and well written. The short, alternating chapters and relatively fast pace made this a quick and interesting read that was hard to put down. If you've read and enjoyed any of her other books, or even just heard the hype, definitely pick this one up when it comes out in the fall!

Thanks to @crownpublishing for giving me the chance to read and review this fabulous book!

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.