You need to read this book. The Butterfly Effect has always fascinated me. One different choice, leaving one minute later, moving one inch in the other direction could all change where you are right now. WHO you are right now. It's mindblowing to think about. This book was done absolutely brilliantly. I laughed, cried, and everything inbetween.

Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a masterful blend of suspense and introspection, where a seemingly routine flight becomes the backdrop for an extraordinary revelation. With a narrative as unpredictable as it is riveting, Moriarty crafts a tale that keeps readers on edge, questioning fate and free will. The plot's twists are deftly handled, leading to a conclusion that's as surprising as it is satisfying. Moriarty's skillful exploration of destiny, grief, and human connection makes this novel both thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging. A must-read for anyone who loves a story that challenges the boundaries of reality and fiction.

Thank you Liane Moriarty, Crown Publishing, and Netgalley for the advanced copy!

On an ordinary, short, domestic flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, the wildest thing happens - an unremarkable passenger, one everyone barely noticed, began to predict the age and way each person aboard the flight would die. Most people wrote her off as a crazy person, while others began taking steps to avoid her predictions from coming true. Everyone, however, thought differently once some of her predictions started to come true.

What a fun concept! It kind of reminded me of The Measure but with more details and obviously a different spin on things. This book was certainly a slow burn but as is typical with Liane Moriarty's style, it features a colorful cast of well developed characters. I thought the book was a tad long and drawn out, we really didn't need as much of Cherry's backstory as we got and while I liked some of it, I found a lot of it to be unnecessary. I also found the ending to be a little anti-climatic, even if it was realistic. I'm not a murderous person in real life but throughout this book what truly kept me going was the waiting to see how everyone's deaths would play out! So on that front I was a little let down, I just wish the novel as a whole was a bit more thrilling.

Overall I enjoyed this one but I predict that it's going to have mixed reviews based on the length and pacing of the story. I do recommend it if you like character driven slow burns!

Imagine being on an airplane, when one of the passengers goes from seat to seat telling your age of death and cause of death. What if you are that age now? Or it is your child that will die young? Would you see if you could do everything you can to try to prevent it? This is an interesting book that makes you look at life a little differently faced with an expiration date. Some people are thankful that she told them and they caught their disease while it could be cured. But why would someone do that? And when the premonitions start coming true, is she for real?

Great characters and a very interesting plot.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for my honest opinion.

I am a huge Moriarty fan, and her latest did not disappoint. Here One Moment starts with a woman, Cherry, going down the aisle of a plane and telling all the other passengers how and when they will die. Even reading the opening chapters I felt this was going to be such a unique book of perspectives. Moriarty has such a gift for character development and dialogue, and conveying interpersonal relationships, you get so invested in them and the story. And then the story will have you puzzling over big life questions, and this is not a bad thing. Highly recommend for your next read. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

What starts out as an annoying post boarding flight delay turns into a life changing experience for all. After a long wait for a technical issue, the passengers are enjoying a relatively short routine flight. That is until an elder woman stands and begins to inform each passenger how they will die and at what age it happen. Naturally, this creates a stir and leaves the passengers unnerved but as the woman says "fate won't be fought".

The interesting part of Here One Moment beyond the premise is the multiple POV. We get to see what several passengers are feeling before and after the predictions are made. We get to see their mental state before a stranger tells them in some cases death is coming sooner than they had hoped. Some are told they will die in terrible manners, while others hear of long lives beyond their imagination. There are several who are unfazed by the ramblings of an old woman while others are thrown by her words.

The flight takes up a good quarter of the book and really gets the reader into the minds of the woman as well as the other passengers and even one of the flight attendants. It isn't until halfway through the story we see the first prediction come to pass. But in that first half of the book the connections to the characters become strong and as a reader you become invested in their stories. Following the deaths of several passengers, they begin to worry about their futures. Do they take steps to fight their fate? Is there anything they can do? I found myself hoping for character to be saved from their destined deaths.

It is not often a book gets you to thinking about your own life and mortality. I loved the connections to characters of Here One Moment. Liane Moriarty took us on a ride of sadness, loss, fear as well as hope, happiness and even humor all in a story about death. That is rare and a very much appreciate read.

A powerful book that makes you question fate. This book was a little out of the box but I was excited to read it. How would you live differently if you know the age and cause of your death? Overall, I thought there were way too many characters to juggle in this book. The chapters bounced around in perspectives and it was hard to keep everyone’s names and stories straight. I enjoyed most of the stories and enjoyed how things were somewhat interconnected, but it was definitely a heavier and slower read. Not exactly my cup of tea but there was a lot to appreciate about it.

I don't recall if I've read anything by this author before, so I was going on blind. I did quite enjoy this book. It's a very interesting concept for a story, something I've not come across yet. Overall I really enjoyed it

Lianne Moriarty has a knack for writing a propulsive page turner and Here One Moment is no exception. Like many of her other novels, there is a host of characters, and they are all connected throughout the book. I enjoyed the various storylines once I sorted everyone in my mind. The story itself was very interesting and unlike anything else I have read, so major points for that! It felt a tad long at parts, especially the first half. But overall it was a fantastic book and I highly recommend! Best part is it drops tomorrow, so you don’t have to wait! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

This read threw me off kilter at first because of the Third Person POV, however WOW! I cannot wait to read more of this author.

I’m a huge Liane Moriarty fan and have read all of her major novels, but this is now my absolute favorite. I found the premise of Here One Moment to be original and thought-provoking. The plot of the novel centers around Cherry, a psychic who creates long-term chaos in the lives of her fellow passengers on a flight from Sidney to Hobart by predicting each person’s cause and age of death. Quite honestly a couple of the predictions were hard to read, but that is what makes the book un-put-downable from the beginning. We follow the passengers as they become aware that some of the premonitions are beginning to be fulfilled, and become more and more invested in their lives. Despite the havoc she creates early on in the novel, I found Cherry to be quite an endearing character as tells her own story with wit and sarcasm. This is a story that is sad and moving at times, but also laugh-out-loud funny. I flew through the 500+ pages of this book because I could not wait to see what happens next.

Thank you to Net Galley and Crown Publishing for the advanced readers copy of this book.

In Liane Moriarty’s tenth novel, she once again throws her characters into spontaneous crisis. The book opens with a scene we are all familiar with. A flight delay. The cause doesn’t really matter. It just sets the reader up to relate to what starts out as a very common day we’ve all experienced and then abruptly becomes a life changer.

When finally in the air,, a fairly non-descript older woman stands up and slowly approaches each passenger to calmly tell them how and when they will die. The predictions seem credible. A toddler will drown as a young child, a man will die in a workplace accident, a suicide, cancer, old age. The passengers we are introduced to are, of course, rocked by this.

It is structured in alternating chapters. We get to know some of the characters on the plane and how they are coping (or not) with this new ‘knowledge.’ The in-between chapters take us through the entire life of the woman who made the predictions.

It may be a somewhat coincidental but I’ve noticed a pattern of books published on the coattails of previous successes. Remember how after Girl on a Train, how many girl on a this or that came out? Although in an interview, Moriarty said she had this idea while sitting on a plane, I think there is something to having this book follow the success of Nikki Erlick's The Measure. Knowing what has always been the great unknown is a captivating idea and there a myriad of ways to explore it. The thought that one day we actually may know our time of death is plausible in an AI future. And knowing would definitely impact how we choose to live our lives.

Back to the book...

It was a very slow slog through. None of the idiosyncratic characters were particularly appealing and much of what we learned about Cherry, the woman who catapulted the action, is long and boring and unnecessary. I didn’t think I’d ever finish and just now learned that the book was over 500 pages. It’s sometimes a good thing that page numbers are an unknown when reading on Kindle. Knowing how far I really had to go would really have been disheartening.

The ending should have been a save but for me it was too neatly packaged. The reveal wasn't worth the trip.

This is a subject that has so much possibility in fiction. I hope if a slew of new books do come out exploring this, they are more original and unfold at a quicker pace.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Crown Publishing for the opportunity to read this advanced reading copy and honestly review it.

This one will challenge readers who are uncomfortable with topics around death, as a main focus is on the lives of the passengers of a flight in the aftermath of receiving predictions on when and how they will die. When the predictions start coming true, some of these passengers are thrown into even more of a tailspin. There were certain perspectives that were more challenging to read than others, and while I found the ending of this to be overall satisfying (I really, really appreciate the scene the author chose to end the book with), I did want a little more resolution on a few of the characters. That said, it did feel every bit as long as its 500+ pages.

I've read all Liane Moriarty books and this is one of my favorites right up there with What Alice Forgot. Here One Moment hooked me from the first page until the last. It kept my interest wondering if Cherry would be right in her predictions and if the characters could alter their destinies by being more conscious of their decisions and surroundings. What I loved most about the book is the message to live like you may die soon and this is powerful. A lot of times we take things for granted because we feel like they will always be there. I highly recommend this book for everyone.

3.5 stars.

Do you believe your fate is predetermined? Can a bad fate be avoided? These questions lie at the heart of Liane Moriarty's new book.

The passengers on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia are having a bad day. There have been unexpected delays that have left them waiting on the plane with screaming babies, fretting over missing connecting flights or being late for important commitments.

Then towards the end of the flight, an elderly woman in the first row stands up and starts pointing her finger at the passengers, telling each their cause of death and age of death as she makes her way down the aisle.

Some laugh it off thinking she's crazy; some are delighted because they are told they will die at a ripe old age of natural causes. But others are shocked--they are the ones who are told they will meet a violent and untimely death. Or their young babe in arms will...

Terrific start to a suspense novel, right? The story is told from multiple points of view--those wanting to find some way to avoid the prediction they were given. Can it be done or is fate inevitable? News stories and Insta posts spring up. Who was that woman, that agent of chaos they are dubbing 'The Death Lady?' If they could find her, could they convince her to revise her prediction, say she was wrong and give them a better one?

The main character of the story is of course 'The Death Lady' herself and her backstory, what led her to that moment on the plane, is interspersed amongst the stories of those trying to avoid their fate. We learn she was born Cherry Hetherington, and is the only child of the fortune teller, Madame Mae.

All these stories are interesting but perhaps overly long so that the exciting premise of the plot gets bogged down in too much detail. However what led Cherry to the moment of her terrible act on the plane is well-developed and believable.

Many thanks to the author and publisher for providing me with an arc of this new novel via NetGalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.

I liked this book. However, I think it could have benefited with some sort of reference to the "speaker" of each chapter. There were a lot of somewhat major protagonists and I had to pay close attention between chapters (some of which were only a paragraph) to figure out who was speaking. I can't imagine finding out your death date and cause and this intrigued me to want to read this. I was slightly disappointed with the ending, but I did like seeing things tie together.

The concept of this book was really interesting and intriguing. I liked how there were lots of different POVs and you got to see how the impact of "death prediction" impacted different people in different ways. This book had moments of dark and moments of light that made the story relatable and really made me think about by own choices and beliefs.
The main problem I had was this book felt really long. I also didn't enjoy the interspersed chapters that told Cherry's story. I think these chapters had a totally different vibe and felt like they were from a different book. I wish more time was spent on the passenger POVs and these stories were developed even more with less of Cherry's story. I didn't' understand how Cherry's story added to the point of the book.
Overall, this was a really interesting, and though provoking book that balanced dark humor and joy in a way that really made me think.

Liane Moriarty does it again! Her newest book will not disappoint her legion of fans. The cast of characters is large, yet each person has a compelling story. Exploring questions of fate and whether we can change our lives’ trajectories will keep readers thinking about this book long after they’ve finished it.

The premise of this book - a whole plane learning the year and cause of their death - is very intriguing, and the first 25% I was hooked. But after the set up, things started to wander and unravel and the book felt long and difficult to get through. I think the primary reason for this was the alternating chapters with Cherry, which were often meandering and didn’t add much to the story. We could have gone to her storyline much fewer times with greater impact.
There were a lot of characters from the plane whose backstories I really connected to and wanted to hear from, and I appreciate Liane Moriarty’s quick, dark, humorous writing. So for that I give this book 3.5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

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

Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. A mysterious woman starts giving out predictions to each passenger about their age of death and also the manner in which they will die. Some are a very old age, but a few are very soon. Everyone leaves the flight in a a bit of a panic and scared about their future. Within months, a few of the passengers do indeed die as predicted, and the tensions skyrocket from there. Who is this mystery "Death Lady" and is she for real??? Some of the passengers connect with each other and work to try to figure it out. We also flash back to the past of the mystery woman and slowly start to learn who she is.

There are a lot of characters and I thought I might have trouble keeping them straight, but the author does a great job of keeping them straight for you along the way. There are also a lot of little threads that she weaves through the story. You just keep wondering where this is going and how it's all going to end up. Let me just tell you that she masterfully weaves them all together at the end, so satisfying! It was a very good and emotional ending and I loved it! The chapters were also short and super propulsive, causing a whole lot of "just one more chapter" late nights in bed.

This one really makes you think. Would you want to know? And if you did know how much that knowledge changes how you live your life. No way, now how, would I want to know! The story is very thought provoking and I think it would make for great book club discussions. I highly recommend adding this one to your Fall reading. Publication date 09/10/2024.

Thank you to @netgalley and @crownpublishing for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty did not disappoint!
A mysterious slow-burn that I absolutely loved.
I was absolutely enthralled with Here One Moment, the latest release from Liane Moriarty.
I thought the story was brilliant- smart, clever, intriguing and entertaining.
A very well-written, engaging story.