I love this author so I was very pleased to receive a NetGalley arc of her latest book! This book follows the lives of a few passengers as they navigate through being told by a “psychic” their date of death and how they die. The concept was interesting and kept me reading, however I miss the Moriarty of Alice and The Hypnotists Love Story. I miss her beautiful and exquisite voice as she used to take on various groups/ types of moms. I appreciated the heart of this book yet I did finish this book wishing for the complexities that only she could write about. I also wished for follow up or an epilogue on all the characters. I will keep reading her books as she is a wonderful purveyor of hard truths and difficult topics. Thank you to NetGalley for an arc in exchange for an unbiased review.,3.5 stars rounded up to 4

I finished it. I finally finished.
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty is a chunky book. At over 500 pages, I was skeptical that I wanted to finish it at all.
The beginning is great, the middle dragged, and the ending was fine.

A plane full of passengers are going about their routine flight, when they are approached by a woman that is predicting how and when each passenger will die.
I think everyone in life, has an opinion on whether they personally would like to know that information. Some would like to make plans, live life to the fullest, some wouldn’t want to know such details, as it would consume their every thought in the time they had left.

The premise of this book was great, but it was too long and there were way too many characters. I wasn’t invested in Cherry’s character by the end, because there was just too much info about her. It really needed to be trimmed down.
Although I wanted to just put it aside, many times, I did stick with it. I was curious to see how this was going to play out. Overall it was ok, but not my favourite of her books.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for the early copy.

This book had me utterly hooked from the beginning. The premise was just so fascinating to me: an older woman, Cherry Lockwood, is on a flight when suddenly she just gets up and starts telling each passenger her prediction for their age and cause of death. The passengers’ reactions range from horrified to amused to everything in between.

Once the flight is over, we follow the lives of several of the passengers who received those unsolicited predictions. When some of the fortunes start coming true, the passengers who received less than optimal predictions start to panic.

I love the way this book was written. The author so brilliantly interspersed the stories of the passengers with the slow unraveling of Cherry’s own story. I loved that her mysterious predictions weren’t really explained until the end of the book; it felt like as a reader we were figuring everything out at the same time as the passengers whose stories we were following.

The subject matter in this book reminded me a bit of The Measure, but I thought this was just done so much better. The emotional depth and character development was everything I wanted for a story about this subject matter. It really made me stop and think about the incredible fragility of life that we often forget on a day to day basis.

I will say I’m not sure if I’m totally satisfied by the ending. The slow unravelling of the story was so beautifully done and I felt a bit underwhelmed by the final result, but I still really enjoyed the book overall.

Thank you so much for this advanced copy of this book @netgalley @penguinrandomhouse! It just came out on September 10 and I highly recommend checking it out if the subject matter interests you.

It was just supposed to be another routine flight from Sydney to Hobart.
But it turned into anything but…

Cherry Smith is a totally forgettable person. Nothing about her stands out. But she didn’t sleep well the night before and woke the morning of her flight a bit out of sorts. What caused her to act this way? Dehydration? Or was it something else? But Cherry had no memory of what happened on this flight.

But for everyone one else, it was a flight they could not forget.

At one point in the flight Cherry stood up and walked down the aisle of the plane pointing to each person and stating cause of death and age of death. For most people, it was far in the future and they weren’t concerned. But for 6 people, their death predictions were in the very near future.

If you knew when you would die, would you try to do something about it?

As the first couple of predicted deaths occur, Cherry is nicknamed the Death Lady as passengers frantically try to track her down. Were her predictions just a fluke or is she actually able to predict the future?

This book took me a bit longer than normal to get through as it is a hefty book at over 500 pages. But I became very invested in the different storylines to see what becomes of them.
This was a unique and engaging story and definitely worth the read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for my advanced ebook to read and review

*My apologies for not reviewing until after the pub date, but the advanced pdf copy didn’t work well on my kobo.

Thank you Netgalley and Doubleday Canada for the chance to read Here one moment by Liane Moriarty.
This was my first chance to read this author, and the premise sounded fantastic. Unfortunately, this read was not for me. It is a fairly long book, and the beginning was so repetitive that I became bored and kept putting the book down. I just could not get into this story and finally had to call it quits.

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced copy of this one! A drool-worthy read that would be ideal for bookclubs, Maybe a little too-long, but the premise was enough to keep us entertained, even when the story did seem to move along slowly.

I was very excited to obtain a digital advanced reader copy of this book, although admittedly it was my very first Liane Moriarty read. Apparently (or at least I have been told), you would have to be living under a rock if you hadn’t at least heard about some of Moriarty’s work (think Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers). Since I do routinely come out from under my particular rock for interesting reading, I was excited to give this a go.

I am not exaggerating when I tell you this book had me hooked from the very beginning. Since I am one of those readers who typically juggles more than one book at a time, Here One Moment quickly moved to the number one spot in my reading stack. I couldn’t read it fast enough!

The book begins on a flight to Sydney, with an elderly lady approaching each passenger on the plane with frightening predictions of each of their deaths. The lady does not recall anything she said to any of the passengers by the end of the flight, and then the real mystery begins. Is the lady insane? Does she have dementia? Is she psychic? A bit of panic sets in as the passengers disembark to continue on with their lives, grappling with the morbid predictions they had just been given. Should they ignore what the elderly lady has just told them, or try and prevent the prediction from coming true?

The narrator changes multiple times throughout the chapters, as different characters explore their own feelings and apprehension about their predicted deaths. I did find this a bit confusing when I didn't know the characters very well, but as the story went on, it was much easier to follow.

The story focuses in depth on only a few of the characters, including the old lady, Cherry, and believe me, that’s more than enough. I found myself very invested in one character in particular, and since the cast of this story is quite diverse, I am betting most people will find at least one character they can relate to.

I didn’t love the ending, as I found that it felt a bit rushed after all that fantastic build-up. The ending is the only reason I didn’t give the book a five star rating. I did, however, love how Moriarty cleverly worked through an explanation for the predictions, that still left me wondering if they were supernatural or mundane by nature. I won’t go any further, you’ll have to find that one out for yourself.

Overall, the writing is easy to get lost in, the story is beyond compelling with a mystery I was absolutely dying to figure out. (Begging your forgiveness for that shameless pun, it’s who I am). The book was a clever and interesting way to explore feelings about life and death, joy and pain, and what little control we really have over our own mortality.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review.

Interesting hook. Weaving of stories together is well done as usual. Some character stories were stronger than others, I always find it revealling of oneself which characters you connect with and which ones you don't. The ending was a bit anti-climactic, but then again so is life.

I have been a pretty big fan of all of Liane Moriarty’s books since Big Little Lies and it was so great to receive an ARC from netgalley of this book!

If you knew when you were going to die, would you live life to its fullest or try to prevent it from happening?

When a group of strangers board a plane they don’t expect to get their death fortunes told to them and their lives turned upside down. As some of the fortunes start coming true, the remaining passengers start to question life and how they can beat their own predictions.

❤️ the unlikely friendships created by the characters being brought together in such a strange way
❤️ this book touches on a lot of mental health issues including OCD and depression.
❤️ gives alllll of the Final Destination vibes
❤️ the connections of the characters
❤️ the ending so much

This was my first novel by Liane Moriarty. I have watched the tv series based on her books (Nine Perfect Strangers, Big Little Lies and Apples Never Fall) which I have enjoyed. I was excited to get an advanced reader's copy of her novel Here One Moment.

While aboard a flight to Sydney, a woman on board makes predictions to all of the passengers stating a cause of death and their age at their death. Some passengers were happy to receive an old age and natural causes prediction, others weren't too happy to receive predictions of death at their current age and in an unlikely manner. The flight lands, everyone gets off and the story breaks into several point of views as we follow a few of the passengers as well as 'the psychic'/'the death lady' named Cherry, after her predictions.

This was a very long novel. I struggled through it a little bit as there was a bit too many characters for my liking. At times I had a hard time remembering which characters were in which predicament as there was so much switching back and forth. I also felt there was some of the story line that could have been eliminated not making it a 500+ page novel. There was also no real excitement at the end of the novel, it was kind of boring. I am also not really into psychics or supernatural so maybe this is why I didn't enjoy the story line. I was very curious what people would behave and react if they found out they were going to die at a certain time/date with their cause of death, so that was what kept me going in reading this novel.

Thank you to NetGalley, Penguin Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada and Liane Moriarty for the advanced digital copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to net galley for giving me this opportunity to read the book 'One More Moment.
This was my first time reading a book by Liane Moriarity. I have say that it kept me intrigued.
The story takes place on a plane flying from Hobard, Tasmania to Sydney, Australia.
A woman who is on board the flight gets uo from her seat and walks up and down the aisles and predicts the cause and age of deaths of some of the passengers. Her predictions for three of the passengers come true as well as other deaths that she fore saw. Other passengers changed theur way of life so as not to be the next person.
The story also went in to the pyschics past with her parents and other relatives.
These are my own opinions.

I have been a fan of Liane Moriarty since I first read Big Little Lies many years ago. I wasn't sure about the subject matter of this book, it seemed a little wild but I went with it. I was really drawn into the story line and I couldn't put the book down. I needed to know if the predictions would come true- especially for the passengers who were given early death predictions. I found the first half of the book to be very much a thriller. And then the second half of the book felt more like the Liane Moriarty books that I am familiar with. It was very interesting too see how the characters would all be connected and to see what their fates would be by the end of the book. While this wasn't my favourite of her books it was still very entertaining and would be a great book to read with a book club. SO many questions about fate and if you can change it.

4.5 rounded up to 5.

This was a beautiful exploration of how humans adapt to the idea of fate. Moriarty writes about each person with a deep amount of care and intimacy. This is a long, winding story that makes you think about what you do, if it happened to you?

I struggled a bit with the POVs switching, it may have been that I read the digital ARC, but I found that there wasn't a clear enough indication that I was entering a new POV until it started (no page breaks etc). and there were A LOT of POVs.

Moriarty is extremely talented, and as she switches between characters, her writing style and narrative changes to reflect the way that would speak. You truly are entering their worlds and minds. This book will have me contemplating for a long time, would I try to fight fate? and ultimately, am I living the life I want to be living?

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I liked the premise of this book immediately and I was really looking forward to this read. However, as weirdly as it may sound, only the middle was good. The beginning was so incredibly slow, and then the denouement happened too fast! It wasn't bad, but I really feel like it could've been handled better.

Imagine knowing your age and the manner of your own death. How would you react? Would you ignore it out of hand? Would you take measures to prevent it from happening?

The premise of this book drew me in immediately - I was so excited to receive this ARC! I’ve been chasing the high of Big Little Lies and A Husband’s Secret for ages.

While Here One Moment delivered on the engaging storytelling and character driven story, it didn’t quite reach the heights of my two favourites. I was hoping for some big revelations and a deeper meaning to be explored. But, I it still kept me turning pages and I think it will be popular with a lot of readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Doubleday Canada for this free ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

The title and plot for this book appealed to me immediately, and Liane Moriarty did not disappoint. Who doesn't want to know how and when they die? It's a dangerous question. The book is exciting and written excitedly. It seems almost frantic at points, which can be hard to hold on to each persons individual storyline but I think the author was just enjoying telling these tales. Nothing was forgotten, I just had to be patient for some characters story to continue, all while learning the history of the main character. I also really enjoyed the setting of Australia which is a nice change of location for 99% of books a read. This story has love, and mystery, a bit of fantasy and some humour and I'd recommend it to anyone really.

Thanks to the author and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book.

An interesting premise, leading to an engaging plot, which is chock-full of well-drawn characters.

It all begins with a seventy-ish lady, with nice silver hair, neatly dressed and not at all flashy. The kind of woman you might not notice. On this day, on a simple flight from Hobart, Australia to Sydney, the “Death Lady”, as she will come to be known, suddenly and somewhat harshly, audibly predicts the date and manner of death of a number of passengers on the flight.

The result, as you would expect, is chaotic. The book pivots at this point, leading us deeper into the life, loves, and motivations of “Cherry” herself (our mysterious fortune teller) - providing the backstory to help the reader understand how these terrible and traumatic happenings could be foreseen.

As expected, the story also follows the lives of several of the affected passengers, - their coping and the aftermath of the horrific predictions.

This is a story a reader will find hard to put down. The premise, fascinating as it is, is both hair-raising and intriguing, raises all sorts of questions, including:

Will these passengers die, as was predicted, or can their “fate” be avoided?

How would it change your life if you knew the date of your death - would you live each day more mindfully, more gratefully?

And, of course:

How will the author extricate herself from the bleak realities of a plot laden with so many upcoming deaths?

Without giving the plot away (no spoilers here), you will need to read the book to learn more. This reader, for one, found the ending (for each of the characters) clever enough to be satisfying.

A great big thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.

*** FOUR AND A HALF SHINY STARS

3.5* rounded up

I love books that are circular for lack of a better work. Everything leads back into something or someone you’ve already met and it all feels like it’s stitched up so nicely t the end.

This is what this book felt like. You need to pay attention to the details because they all matter.

The book is about grief; about a lady who makes predictions about when people will die. Half of the time we hear from her, in her voice, about herself and her life. The other half we jump from one passenger to the other. All of them got predictions and we get to see their lives in bits and pieces.

This story is a little long, probably because it’s many stories. It is definitely not fast-paced and it took me awhile to get through it. But, I’m glad I read it through and didn’t stop. The ending was hopeful and so perfectly tied up (in a way that wasn’t annoying).

If you’re a fan of women’s fiction, I can see you enjoying this story. If you like general fiction or something that requires paying attention, definitely pick this up.

Honestly, I found the premise of this book fascinating (someone who can predict the death dates of anyone she touches) and I give the author credit in her ability to weave a very creative storyline when, deep down the reader knows that this sort of power simply can't exist.

I was intrigued right to the end ... the use of multiple storylines kept me interested. It wasn't hard to keep reading to find out what happened. The ending relied on a couple of convenient coincidences (common with a lot of general fiction) but was certainly on the positive side of believable.

Overall, this was a very enjoyable book. It's my first exposure to the author and I'll definitely read more.

Once I saw Liane Moriarty had another book out, I was sold. Here One Moment is on the longer side compared to what I'm used to. I like crime or psychological thrillers that are around 300 pages, but this was 500+ pages. It didn't feel like that, though. The story was intriguing and mesmerizing from the beginning.

We get the viewpoint of five or six different characters, and it's a great look at how people change as they start to believe something. One of the view points is an elderly woman who tells people on a plane when and how they will die. As the predictions come true, the others start to think the woman has given them their dates. They change the way they're living, reminding us really that we should all live our lives as if it's going to end soon. Moriarty always has some sort of message in her books, and the message in this one is about appreciating life.

We also get the reminder that we can't trust everyone we meet or love. Some of the predictions are downright terrifying, and yet, there is a lightness to the story. It's easy to become attached to many of the characters, even the ones on the peripheral of the story. You want them to change their fates; do something so as not to just give in. But the question then is whether you can change your fate. What about the Butterfly Effect?

This novel really left me with a lot of questions, in a good way. It made me ponder life and my own mortality, and I'm excited to read more from Moriarty.