It was a slow start and I wasn't sure it would get there, but in the end this book had me teary! The book is told from several characters perspectives and we are introduced to their lives in just small snippets to start. Once the characters really developed and we got to know them better, I was all in. I especially loved how the characters were all inter-connected, not just because they took the same flight, but through the random connections in their everyday lives.

Cherry was a great character - she starts off as an old woman having a mental health incident, but as we get her full backstory and understand her upbringing and all of her heartbreak, you really root for her.

I really loved so many of the other characters though: Allegra, Ethan, and Paula/Timmy - I couldn't bear the idea of Cherry's predictions coming through for them. I loved reading how their stories played out.

It's a book that makes you think about your own life and encourages you to consider what you would want if you knew your time was up.

In Here One Moment, a woman stands up in the middle of a flight and starts pointing to each passenger and stating the cause and age of their future death, one by one. Some laugh her off, and others are significantly affected by her predictions.
Liane Moriarty is an author whose books I always add to my TBR, and while it’s a tough choice, I think I have to say this was my favorite one yet. She never fails to come up with something so unique, while remaining so completely…. Liane Moriarty.
I don’t want to say anything else for fear of revealing any sort of spoiler, but I recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of the author, for anyone who might be intrigued by premonitions or fortune telling, or anyone who just wants a book that will make them contemplate their life choices and living life to the fullest.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the advance copy and for giving me the opportunity to share my honest review.

What would you do if you thought you knew when and how you would die? What would you change about your life? The passengers on board a flight leaving Hobart Airport to Sydney, Australia will have the chance to explore this question after a passenger ( Cherry Lockwood) on the flight walks down the aisle pronouncing each person's age of death and the cause.

Liane Moriarty delivers another compelling story full of interesting characters and complex issues. At times I found it hard to read, particularly, regarding the passengers whose death was predicted in the near future. The conclusion of the story and the quote at the end by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." left me truly wowed.

Thank you to NetGalley, and Crown Publishing for graciously sending me an ARC to review. My thoughts are my own.

HERE ONE MOMENT ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5. When the delay of the flight is longer than the estimated flight time, the entire plane is exhausted and irritable. Mid flight, a lady gets up from her seat and begins to predict the ages & causes of death of the passengers. Many play it off as nothing, but when her predictions begin to be come true, many are spooked. At 126 chapters, I wasn’t able to put it down. I cried at the end, and once again was reminded that life is precious. Loved it.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC! I have read all of Liane Moriarty's books and this is one of her best! A "physic" walks down the aisle of plane predicting age of death and cause of death for each passenger. A heavy topic it would seem but it does not read that way. The characters are all well developed and likeable. It is interesting to see how each of them handles the prediction. It is a book that makes you think but it is also entertaining. I highly recommend this one! Release date is 9/10/24.

I’m a huge fan of Liane! This books synopsis excited me. But it fell short for me. It was a fast read. i was expecting a little more

This was the first book that I’ve read by this author. I really enjoyed the beginning of the story. Cherry’s chapters seemed to be filler and really didn’t add to the story much. Overall, the characters were quite interesting and I throughly enjoyed their story. The ending was a disappointment, quite lackluster.

I was given an ARC copy by NetGalley for my honest review.

A flight is delayed and a woman makes her way around the cabin telling each passenger how and what age they would die. Some passengers were relieved; they would live to old age. Others were scared; they wouldn't make it past their next birthday.
I have read lots of Liane Moriarty in the past. I love her work. Here One Minute was a great story, slightly suspenseful. Moriarty goes between the past and the present. There are so many characters and often times I found it difficult to understand who the chapter was about. But I trusted Moriarty's process. With no chapter names or identification to the chapter at all, I just kept reading and the characters POV was eventually revealed. This is a long book but the shorter chapters help break it up and make for the perfect break points. Special thanks to Liane Moriarty, NetGalley, and Crown Publishing for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest opinion. 4.5 stars for me.
#HereOneMoment #NetGalley

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of Here One Moment.

I have a complicated relationship with the author. I was a fan of Big Little Lies, but didn't enjoy her subsequent followups.

But I haven't read a book by her for awhile and when I saw the premise of this, I was intrigued and pleased when my request was approved.

The author can write, but the narrative is bogged down with exposition, filler, and multiple characters and POVs.

Readers are introduced Cherry, the psychic/fortune teller in question, who reminisces about her past and present and what led her to that fateful moment on the plane, foretelling the deaths of numerous passengers.

Some of these deaths come true. Is Cherry psychic or it's just random luck?

I wasn't interested in Cherry or her life or any of the lives of the 6 passengers we follow after they disembark from the plane.

The narrative was too long, too drawn out, too tedious. I didn't need to know about Cherry's life story, or the lives of the six characters.

The morale to this story is; if you had a chance to change your future, would you do it?

Change is hard, but wanting to shake up your routine and do better to alter the future is harder. Harder than death for most people.

I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review-
What an interesting book! Would you do things different if you knew you only had so long to live? On the plane a woman goes down the aisles saying Timmy will drown at 7, etc…. Six people are told an early death. Can she really tell the future? And then one dies, later two more and as this happens people become scared! Can they change the future?

An interesting take by a talented author on the familiar themes of destiny vs. free will, how one small change can have a big ripple effect, and what would we do differently if we knew how and when we would die. The book started to lag for me in the middle, but it was fairly easy to get through the hump as the chapters are short, with alternating viewpoints. I’m going to round up to 4 stars as I found the ending satisfying, and did enjoy the story for overall.

Thank you very much to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I enjoyed all the other Liane Moriarty books I have read, but this one was not my favorite. I appreciated the overall theme of living your life to the fullest. I also loved the multiple POVs and learning about Cherrie’s life through the years. I could not get connected to the other characters and their stories. The middle of the book was also slow for me. I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I listened to it rather than reading it.

This may be my favorite Liane Moriarty yet, and is sure to be a big hit. Interesting premise and great character development. Will be recommending this as a perfect fall read.

Thank you to both #NetGalley and Crown Publishing/Crown for providing me an advance copy of Liane Moriarty’s latest #mystery novel, Here One Moment, in exchange for an honest review.

#HereOneMoment takes a timeworn concept about accepting or rejecting predetermined destiny, and revives it by creating a contemporary story that relies on a strongly character-driven plot and resists the use of fantastical elements other than fate.

The story opens on a short, yet harrowing, Australian domestic flight wherein passengers are subjected to involuntary predictions about their age and cause of death, which are made by a potential psychic, Cherry Lockwood, who rightfully earns the social media moniker ‘The Death Lady’ shortly after the flight lands and her predictions start coming true.

The novel is a slow-burn, which gradually builds in suspense as the passengers disembark and the story focuses on characters’ individual lives. The chapters alternate between Cherry’s retelling of her life up until the psychic incident, and the perspectives of several passengers whose fates were predicted on that flight.

The characters have varied and intriguing backgrounds, ranging from young to old, rich to poor, with different nationalities and ethnicities. At times, the story could drag if the reader was not interested in a certain character or their subplot. Grief, free will, and love are three of the heaviest themes running rampant throughout each individual subplot, preying on human emotions and fears that we encounter on a daily basis.

Overall, the novel was an intriguing and well-woven story that comes full circle in a predictable, but mostly happy fashion in the end. Readers should know this is a story that is more about the human condition, and less about mystery or the supernature. Solid 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

Liane Moriarty never disappoints!! Another great read from her. Thanks netgalley & the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

First off, I would definitely recommend this to fans of Moriarty's other novels. I received an advance copy, so I'm unsure whether it will be marketed as a mystery/thriller like "Big Little Lies," but I would classify it more as contemporary fiction, similar to "The Hypnotist's Love Story" and "Three Wishes". The story has a prominent "hook" mentioned in the synopsis; however, it focuses less on unraveling a mystery and more on exploring the characters' backstories—their grief, compulsions, and upbringings. I wouldn't describe this as a page-turner since each chapter primarily aims for character development. In short, it's a heartfelt story that reminds us to pause, appreciate life and cherish our relationships.

I loved this book! Not a mystery nor a thriller, more chick lit I guess...... but had me enthralled none the less and had me thinking what I would do. This is the epitome of a book club pick and I bet this will be a Reese Witherspoon pick when it comes out!

I really liked Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, it was interesting and so touching! During a short domestic flight one woman gets up and starts telling everyone when and how they are going to die. After this predicted most passengers are chocked, amused or scared, but decide this is not real, except, then people start dying just as predicted! This book makes you stop and appreciate your life a little more. The story alternates between the passenger and the “The Death Lady” as she quickly is named.
Loved this book!

I have read a lot of Liane Moriarty’s books and really loved most of them, but this one just wasn’t my favorite. It’s so different from her other books. I just had a hard time keeping up with all the characters and it was kinda depressing. I guess it bothered me that she told each of the people on the plane when they were going to die and how, whether they wanted to know or not. There was a good moral to the story. Live your life to the fullest.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC copy!

Moriarty’s latest has such an interesting premise and starts off with a bang - a lady claiming to be psychic tells everyone on a plane the age and cause of death, the rest of the book follows several different characters from the plane as they try to determine whether she is to be believed or not, until some people from the flight actually die the way she determined. they then of course try to live their lives in avoidance of the cause.

I loved the initial setup (kinda like The Measure meets Dear Edward), but unfortunately it fell into the same trap as the last few Moriarty books I’ve read. we follow about 6 different characters after the flight in alternating chapters, but they aren’t evenly spread out so some characters get much more storyline than others, and as a result it took a long time before we circled back to certain characters. I’d say the most emphasis is placed on the storyline of Cherry (the psychic lady), who basically tells us her life story, yet I felt her storyline had such little impact on the book and I personally would’ve preferred to follow the ‘dying’ characters more. I enjoyed following Allegra, Eve, and Paula’s stories the most, yet I felt they were the ones who got the least amount of pages, compared to Cherry’s overly drawn out one.

and I don’t wanna spoil anything of course, but the ending left me rolling my eyes and the direction the plot takes was definitely underwhelming.