Liane is back and she’s going down a totally different road this time! And at 512 pages it’s meaty AND great one!

On a delayed flight in Australia, a woman gets up from her seat and begins telling every passenger their expected “Age of death, Cause of death”. At first the passengers don’t know what to make of it. Some are entertained, others horrified. The flight lands and all go back to their lives but then when a few predictions come true, the lives of both the “death lady” and the remaining passengers converge in this exploration of fate and life’s unexpected turns.

✨My Thoughts✨
I have really enjoyed many of Moriarty’s books, with What Alice Forgot and Big Little Lies at the top. Her gift is in her lovely and relatable characters, the way she can pull you into the story with realism, mystery and her signature drama. Her writing is so entertaining and readable. I adored Cherry, the mysterious “death lady” and her story is what brings my rating so so close to a 5. There are varying viewpoints and certainly some gripped me more than others but the overall effect and my experience was wonderful. This was a book I couldn’t put down and I even missed 3 stops on the subway while nose deep in its pages. I’m excited for September and for this to peak on bestseller lists!

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(4.5/5 stars)

Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a page-turner. On a short flight, the daughter of a fortune teller rises from her seat to greet all passengers with the statement "age of death, cause of death". As the passengers disembark, they bond over their shared experience and continue to keep in touch as some of the fortune-teller's predictions begin to come true. This is a light story with some mysterious undertones and is a fast, enjoyable read.

I really enjoyed this. It delt with heavy ideas of fate, love, death, friendship, family and more with a fun light touch. I would've loved more epilogue information about other characters. But I must admit, it's probably a "better" constructed book this way.

If you were told when you were going to die and how, how would you live your life? I loved this it was very thought provoking. People were given the opportunity to really live and prevent untimely deaths. I got confused in the beginning. The chapters never indicated who was talking but other than that I would recommend the book.

Thank you to Crown and NetGalley for this ARC.

This is a “what would you do if you knew you had only X days left to live?” book which is normally my speed but this one just didn’t land for me. The book begins with all the characters on a flight, where a woman makes predictions about the passengers’ causes of death, and when they will die. From there, the book is split between updates about the passengers and backstory about the women who made the predictions. The ladder just didn’t land for me, I felt no connection to the woman and did not really care about her backstory. The passengers and the effect of the prediction were compelling until the book hit a sort-of twist that made me wonder what the point of the story was. A quick read but a disappointing one.

****6/8/24**** FINISHED! Despite this being 512-pages (hardcover), it has 126 relatively short and some micro-short chapters, plus epilogue, with a lot of white space, so it reads very fast. The Australia-based story is centered on a single incident described throughout the first 24 chapters in which an older-ish woman named Cherry walks down the aisle of a plane en-flight pointing to each passenger and stating what they will die of and when. During those 24 chapters we learn a bit of back story on Cherry, as well as select passengers on the flight. These end up being the cast of characters around which the novel evolves.

This is a great Liane Moriarty novel! Any fans of hers I expect will love it, as it combines those lovely character self-talk insights that she is known for, with a slow-burn mystery (also known for), and a foundation of human relationships through friendship and love. Thematically, the reader is guided to question our beliefs on fate vs. personal choice, the reality and acceptance of future death, and decisions on how exactly we want to spend our days and with whom. The last 5% of the book was special to me, as it ties the story up so beautifully and with such a balanced narrative. Yes, I cried during this section, but happy tears. This is a positive story, not depressing, for those for whom this is important (me, lol!). For me, this is a perfect novel. Thank you, Liane Moriarty and pls keep writing! 5-stars. Coming this September. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC!

****6/6/24**** Just got approved to read this ARC from NetGalley! It is a slow burn - I'm 25% in and not sure what direction this will go. Do you have an interest in The Secret, or manifesting your future? Do you believe in fate or free will? I love how Liane Moriarty weaves a mystery vibe into her novels, without it being procedural. I love her writing about characters, all of whom are completely relatable in their little personal details, quirks and thoughts. A friend asked if this is similar to The Measure (every human on earth receives a box with a length of thread correlated to their longevity - do you open it or not? do you live your life differently or not?), and I said that I wasn't really sure yet. That book felt scifi to me, while this feels very contemporary. VERY EXCITED to read this Sept 10, 2024 new novel!

I could not put this one down. I loved the storyline and although there were a lot of characters and switching of viewpoints, I had no trouble keeping track. I loved the character’s stories and how it showed the connection between some of them.

On one delayed flight, an unremarkable older woman begins drawing everyone’s attention by predicting their age and cause of death. Naturally, passengers start to find this upsetting but the woman making predictions has no memory of doing so after the flight. Most people are able to laugh it off until some of predictions begin to come true, exactly as she claimed they would. Passengers must ask themselves, do they have faith in the “Death Lady”? Can they fight fate, or do they control their own destinies?

Wow, what a thought-provoking and poignant read from the masterful Liane Moriarty! I was so honored to have the opportunity to read an early copy of this book, and I must say it is one of her very best. It is over 500 pages but I breezed through it and didn’t want to put it down until I reached the (amazing) conclusion. I loved how she chose to end the book with the epilogue! It was such a powerful ending. I loved all the character’s connections, the little hints and foreshadowing throughout that are ultimately all revealed later in the book. I couldn’t believe I missed it!

I am still thinking about this book days later, and the questions it raises: Do you believe in determinism? Do you believe in the just world fallacy (that everything happens for a reason)? How do your actions affect others? If you change your behaviors now, how will it impact your future? Would you want to know when you would die? It is the type of book that lends itself well to discussion and book clubs because you’ll want to talk about it with everyone! I truly loved it.

Thank you so much to Liane Moriarty, Crown Publishing, and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.

Energetic, witty, fun, yet profound. The themes and questions explored in this book are not unique, but Lianne presents them in a fresh way. I laughed, I got misty-eyed, I will continue to think about these characters.

A bit more editing could have benefitted the story; it felt a tad too lengthy.

Overall my favorite book by this author to date! Thank you for the opportunity to read this early copy.

I love this author! She takes regular people and puts them into interesting situations with deep thought and great writing. This whole book is about fate and the turns our lives take. If you knew when and how you were going to die would you try change that prediction and in turn potentially cause your death as predicted? Can we fight fate?

It’s a long book - but I could have read more. I liked learning about the woman making the predictions as much as I liked reading about several of the passengers wrestling with the predictions they received. I loved how little details from the story that I had forgot, came back and were resolved at the end. I loved the whole ending overall.

‘She does not request the baby be made to stop crying like the three passengers who all seem to have reached middle age with the belief that babies stop crying on request.’

‘He’s like a junk food addiction; delicious at first, then regrettable.’

‘Some people lead charmed lives and think it is all due to them.’

‘You won’t necessarily win against fate, but you should at least put up a fight.’

‘You never know what your last words are going to be, so try to choose them wisely.’

‘Men in suits handled the ballot. Men in suits often handle your destiny.’

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

Loved it!

If you love Liane Moriarty delightfully overstuffed with multiple POVs then you will love this new one!

To me this book started out very intriguing but then it really started to drag in parts and was a little hard to follow. It seemed to be all over the place.

The premise to me seemed like the Final Destination movie. And then it seemed like the ending was rushed.

It will be hard for me to share my feelings about this book without spoilers, but i will do my best. I think the description of this book is a bit misleading or maybe I read it wrong. This isn't some dramatic mystery. For some reason, I thought it was. It's really a story about the nature of people. It's a character study of a wide range of people. Once you get in that mindset, it's a lovely well written book. I kept waiting for something much more dramatic to happen.

There are a lot of characters. If that sort of thing bothers you then be prepared. There are at least 6 different intersecting stories happening.

The way Moriarty wraps things up is her biggest strength. This time was no different.

Overall, it was a good book. Not great, but worth a read.

I enjoyed this story a lot, I love how liane moriarty writes and this book did not disappoint either! i am so grateful to have received a copy of this book prior to release, thank you to the author and publishers!

What would you think if someone came up to you and told you generally how and when you would die? How would your life change? Would it change?
In HERE ONE MOMENT, a lady stands up and points at each passenger on a plane stating how they will die and the age of death. At first noone knows how to take her, but it isn't long before passengers figure out what is going on. Some laugh, others scoff but everyone seems to pay attention especially when the get home.
We see some of the people and how their lives are, how they came to be and how they change because of this incident. The characters entrance you as you attempt to figure out who they are, as they deal with their happiness and grief. All the while, the question becomes do you believe in parapsychology? Can you alter your future based on knowledge obtained from a psychic reading?

Thank you for an advance copy of this book by an author I have always enjoyed so much. This complex story starts on a plane, where we meet several characters traveling to Australia. They meet an older, strange woman who goes up and down the aisle and tells each of them when, where and how they will each die. This then effects their lives in different ways, as we learn more about this woman in alternating chapters. It's got a very fate/destiny/The Measure type feel to it. I was more interested in some characters stories than others but it still was a compelling, interesting premise of how much of our life is choice/pre destined...and what do we do with information about our future. Very well written.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, the author of Big Little Lies, is a too clever tale of a flight on which a passenger visits every other passenger with a prediction of when and how that person will die. At 512 pages, the number of travelers with terrifying death sentences becomes dizzying. Moriarty concludes the book masterfully as she ties the characters together, but the minutiae of the 400 plus pages leading to that satisfying conclusion aren’t worth the wait.

This was not my favorite book by this author. The premise is intriguing, but the execution of the story fell flat for me. Cherry as a character was not terribly interesting. The only character I was rooting for was Eve. Too much disparity between the premise of the story and the way it was written. It didn't read like a thriller.

Wow! Once again, Liane Moriarty gifts the world another 5-star story. Is there an option for 10 stars? The writing style is a little different in this book and for just a split second I wondered if this would live up to her previous accomplishments. Spoiler alert: It does! It all comes together beautifully; I finished the last page with tears of joy and laughter.
On an ordinary day, ordinary people board an ordinary flight. But for some of them, this flight will become anything but ordinary. An unassuming, unspectacular woman will begin predicting the age and cause of death for many of the passengers on board. Some get a kick out of this quirky, obviously fraudulent(?) woman when she predicts they will live long into their 90s and some even 100s. But, for some, the predictions are very young and tragic. And when some of her predictions start to come true, they have to decide, can fate be fought? Can you change your destiny? Do you decide to "live your life...live it hard"?

This is quite easily the best book I've read so far. It kept you hooked, and I couldn't put it down. The characters are all amazing, and I loved how ****SPOILER**** the girl in the car driving slowly ultimately died because of her predicted death since she was only driving slow enough to get hit due to the lady telling her she died driving. lol. I really enjoyed it.