My start with this book was rough. I couldn’t get into it and the many POVs were jarring. However, by the end I was 100% invested. I stayed up late to read and set an alarm on my day off to wake up and finish it.

The pace is slow, but it works for this book because there are many, many little breadcrumbs to pick up on. A faster pace would make the story lose its impact. Shocking, I know, that an author would know what they’re doing with their own story. Ha!

I loved the character development of what I’m calling the side cast. The main character (to me) had such a unique voice. Those chapter were my favorites by the end.

Overall, this is a 5/5 from me. What a perfect story. I think this would make an excellent book club pick and I can’t wait to recommend it. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I loved this book! The premise was extremely unique.

I loved the different points of view in each chapter, five passengers and the elderly lady herself. Also the snippets of how her predictions affect each persons life and the people surrounding them.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Crown Publishing, and Liane Moriarty for allowing me to review this amazing book. I am blown away! This is by far my new favorite book by this author. This is my favorite book of the year! I love how much the characters make you think and just everything about how the story plays out. I love the short chapters as well. Even though this is a thick novel, it is a very fast read that will stay with me for a very long time. I can’t recommend this book enough! Everyone should read this! Thank you again for allowing me to review a new favorite!

A unique and touching story, although is a bit drawn out with too many characters and storylines for me..

2.75 rounded up to a 3 for me.

I was disappointed in this one as Moriarity has always been a 4-5 star author for me, but I founf this one disappointing. The subject matter while not being the normal domestic storyline for her, it still seemed like it could be interesting to me personally as I like this particular trope.

That being said, while this book was surely readable and compelling enough to keep me from DNF'ing, it was mediocre and not what I've come to expect from Moriarity.

In Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty delivers a fascinating tale that blends the thrill of mystery with deep questions about fate, free will, and human nature. The story centers on an ordinary flight that takes an eerie turn when a mysterious passenger, known later as “The Death Lady,” reveals to fellow travelers the exact dates of their deaths. For some, the news brings laughter and long lives, but for other unlucky passengers, death looms near.

Moriarty masterfully weaves the suspense around how each character responds to their prediction, from denial to frantic attempts to outwit fate, prompting readers to ponder what they would do if they knew their end was near. Balancing humor with thought-provoking themes, Moriarty’s storytelling resonates with her characteristic charm, making Here One Moment both an entertaining and contemplative read.

Liane Moriarty has done it again! Here One Moment is a masterful blend of suspense, emotion, and wit. Moriarty’s ability to weave intricate plots with deep, relatable characters is unparalleled, and this may just be her best yet. Every chapter had me guessing and wanting more; I couldn’t put it down. Her storytelling captures the complexity of relationships and human nature in a way that feels both authentic and profound. As a longtime fan, I can confidently say this is Moriarty’s best yet. Highly recommend!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this book and premise! I have used the scene from the airplane to multiple book clubs to allow them to gage how they would respond if this happened to them.

Liane Moriarty is one of the authors whose entire backlist I binged while I was getting back into reading. I love her work, and Here One Moment was no exception. I wouldn’t call this a thriller, but there’s SO much suspense as the reader is anxious to find out whether Cherry’s predictions will come true.

After the flight scene, the book is written as an ensemble, flashing to each main character’s life. I enjoyed every POV, but Cherry, Leo, and Timmy’s mom were my favorites. The stories were woven together beautifully, and I loved when the characters’ lives crossed paths whether they knew it or not.

Although on the longer side, this book flew by. I listened to the audiobook before I received my copy, and this did not feel like 500+ pages! I’m so glad I got the chance to read an early copy of Here One Moment, and definitely recommend adding it to your fall TBR.

I give this book a hesitant 4 stars, but for someone with anxiety or trauma around death and dying, it could be much lower.

How much of our fate is predetermined? This is the question HERE ONE MOMENT asks. When a woman on a flight goes person to person predicting of what and when they'll die, the world seizes on the spectacle. But is she a real psychic? Does she have the power to make these predictions? And can the people she predicted change their futures?

The book follows several of the people who receive predictions, from dying of old age to children dying of drowning. It's dual timeline and shows how the predictor became the person she was on that flight.

Overall, I would recommend this book. It was well-written and thought provoking (even if that thought was memento mori). I would recommend people know what it's about before diving in, however, because it's quite different from Moriarty's other books.

Wow, this was an absolute 5 star book for me. The best Moriarty has had in a few years.

The beginning of the book was so shocking and immediately sucked me in. I knew from then that this was going to be a book I wouldn't want to set down.

What I loved about this was that we got to follow not only the woman that made the predictions but also the others on the plane. I for one, was so invested on what would happen to these people.

Can you change the future? That is the question here..

Loved and highly recommend.

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?

Liane Moriarty is a little hit-or-miss for me, and this one was a hit. Great atmosphere, intriguing mystery, and well-developed characters make this an excellent mystery/thriller. I would definitely recommend this one.

A great suspenseful book that captures the random lives of strangers all tied together based on one strange event. Each person touched becomes a story in itself and it is amazing how it all comes together in the end.

This was just a simple concept, what would you do if you knew the day you were going to die? How would you react or behave? The concept, good but the simple concept was just turned into a way too long and too many cast of characters story. I felt at times that something would happen and I would be so invested. Then it felt like a weird stream of consciousness would happen and I’d find my interest waning again. I love Liana’s books but this one just didn’t work for me,

While the book started out a little slow for me, it picked up steam quickly and I was hooked! As always Liane delivers a beautiful, complex, intriguing story.

A woman named Cherry is on a delayed plane flight and begins walking up and down the aisle of the plane telling each passenger when they will die and their cause of death. Passenger reactions vary from entertained to annoyed, but nobody thinks anything of it until the first death she predicted happens exactly as she said.

The book is a non-linear timeline that jumps back and forth between Cherry's life before the incident on the plane and after. The story also moves between the passengers on the plane. The book examines the question of what would you do if you knew when you were going to die.

Liane Moriarty always writes a page-turning book and this one was no exception. There are a lot of characters in the book and at times I had difficulty differentiating between them.

Read this as an ARC… I found the story lines with so many characters to be a little scattered but the overall message of the book was uplifting. I usually finish books in about 2-3 days and this one took about three weeks. Really unsure why but just didn’t do it for me.

It definitely had a lot of potential and I did enjoy the deep rich character building of Cherry (the main character) but because there were so many other characters it was harder to develop all of them as much as I was hoping for.

Liane Moriarty did it again. This book is so engrossing. I laughed I cried I loved it. It tells the story of fighting fate and accepting life the way it unfolds.

I was an absolute slut for this book. I absolutely loved it and couldn’t stop thinking about it! I hope very much that this gets made into a limited series!

I listened to this on audio.
What an interesting thought provoking book. I liked it a lot. At first I kept wondering where it was going with the story but with only 3 hours to go I 1) didn’t want it to end and 2) couldn’t wait to see where the story would go and how it would end.
Lots of great quotes and just an interesting way to look at life and how that little seed put into your brain can affect the way you think and live.