I just finished Here One Moment, and wow, Moriarty has done it again! I’m always drawn to her engaging writing style and knack for creating complex characters, and this book delivered on both fronts.

The storyline pulls you in right from the start, blending humor with some pretty poignant moments. I loved how she explores the chaos of everyday life and the little things that can change everything in an instant. The characters felt so real; I found myself invested in their lives and rooting for their journeys and waiting for what appeared to be inevitable.

Moriarty has this amazing ability to balance drama and light-heartedness, making it hard to put the book down. It’s definitely a page-turner with that signature twist I’ve come to expect from her.

If you’re a fan of her other works, you won’t be disappointed! This book is a beautiful reminder of how fleeting life can be, wrapped in a story that feels both relatable and thought-provoking. Highly recommend!

* I received an advanced reader’s copy of this book from NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada | Doubleday Canada in exchange for my honest review

Liane Moriarty does it again! If you're a fan of her unique brand of psychological intrigue and ability to delve into the psyche of her characters, you won't be disappointed.

What if you were a passenger on a plane when someone stood and began telling each fellow passenger what age they would be when they died and the cause of death? This is precisely what happens on a short domestic flight on Australia. Would you believe her predictions? If so how would you let it affect your life? Some passengers are given decades before their predicted deaths but a few are given much shorter spans. It is these we follow as they continue to live their lives under the cloud of death. Well written with a lot of characters but presented in a way that is not at all confusing. One of those books you won't want to put down.
Thanks to #NetGalley#HereOneMoment#PenguinRandomHouse for the EARC

Thank you NetGalley for the advance copy of this novel for review purposes.

Liane Moriarty is one of my favourite authors. I was very excited to have the opportunity to read this novel.

Moriarty did not disappoint! The plot of this novel was intriguing right from the start. The stories of the characters unfolded in an interesting manner that made me miss sleep on more than one evening.

I have read all of Liane Moriarty's novels and she continues to be one of my favourite authors.

I was intrigued by the synopsis of this book and was looking forward to the read. From the first page I was curious and kept reading: who was this woman and what was she doing on this flight, disrupting the passengers? As the story progresses and you find out more about Cherry and her life, along with six of the passengers that we’re kept in touch with, I was still intrigued.
I’m not sure at what point I started to skim, little by little. The book wasn’t holding my attention and I found the plot a bit far-fetched.
I know I’m in the minority as I have read the 5 and 4 star reviews and for those readers, Moriarty has penned a fabulous book laced with suspense and mystery. Not so for me. The concept just didn’t click. *** 1/2

Thank you to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for providing me with my ARC.

I was so confused at the beginning of this books because there were a lot of characters to keep track of. As my brain started tracking who was who, the book became easier to follow and I started to like that we were flipping between characters and their stories.

I like how this story ended, Liane Moriarty did a great job of tying everything together and wrapping up the story lines.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing an arc in exchange for a review of Here One Moment.

Another page turner from Liane Moriarty. In the midst of the anxiety of a delayed flight to Sydney (complete with crying baby and sick toddler), an otherwise forgettable older woman walks down the aisle and delivers every passenger a concerning prediction - their age and cause of death. While some laugh it off, others have concerns - is this woman psychic? What does she know about them that they don't? How much do they need to worry?

Asking the age-old questions "what would you do if you knew you when you were going to die? What if it was soon?", Moriarty explores how many of the airplane's passengers deal with these predictions, especially when they seem to start coming true.

"Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty is a page-turner of the highest order. Your heart races as you read through chapter after surprising chapter, in an attempt to solve the mystery at the heart of the novel. But the title is a lie. "Here One Moment" stays with you, and will have you thinking for days after you reach its most satisfying conclusion.

At some point, all of us have either asked, or been asked, "if knew you were dying, would you live your life differently?" "Here One Moment" uses that provocative question as its premise. The novel begins when an elderly woman, on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia stands up and begins telling her fellow passengers how and when she expects each of them to die.

The novel starts like a thriller, but it soon becomes clear that it is much, much more than that. It looks at whether we have free will or if fate dictates the course and direction of our lives. At first, things seem to be clearly on the side of destiny. But that's when Moriarty's magic really takes over.

This book is all about what happens when we say "yes" or "no" to the opportunities and obstacles life throws at all of us. It becomes a brilliant examination of the ups and downs, the highs and lows encountered by everyone, That is one of the wonders of this book. There are no superheroes here, just a collection of ordinary people - for example, an anxious mother, an overworked middle-aged man with a family who want to see more of him, and a pair of newlyweds. Their relatability makes the woman's expectations about their death all the more harrowing because we can see our own lives mirrored in theirs.

The concept and character of death may drive the plot, but in reality the novel is an exquisite and poignant depiction of love, loss and grief. Because really, when you look at life closely enough, we are all "Here One Moment" and gone the next.

Thanks you NetGalley for giving me the chance to enjoy this wonderful book.

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Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review.
Here One Moment releases September 10, 2024

On a delayed flight to Sydney, a rather unassuming woman proceeds to tell everyone on board how and when they’ll die.
Would you want to know that kind of life changing information about yourself? Would you try to change what’s already set in stone by fate?

This had an interesting concept but was long-winded and not executed very well.
Character pov’s bled into each other and it was super frustrating not being able to clearly distinguish a separation within chapters.

Even though there’s this looming energy of death for a full flights worth of people, the stakes never felt dire since there were so many characters to keep track of.
Ultimately, this lacked the depth and thought-provoking takeaways you’d hope to find from such an introspective theme.

This book has a truly wild premise. A passenger seated on an airplane feels a compulsion to get up, walk down the aisle and tell each of her fellow passengers their specific date and cause of death. The passengers don’t know what to believe (who is this lady?!) until the predictions slowly start coming true. We follow the lives of several passengers as they navigate life after finding out their fate.

While this book was very original and quite readable, I found it very difficult to digest. To be clear, I finished the book and I found it very engaging (come on, it’s Liane!) but so much talk of death and confronting one’s mortality made me feel uneasy and anxious (extra anxious!).

I seriously could NOT put this book down. As a fan of Liane Moriarty, I felt as this was kind of in line with some of her older works (What Alice Forgot, The Husband's Secret) where it kept me o0n my toes. I had to keep reading this book until the end because I got so involved with the stories (what Liane does well!) and I needed to see what was going to happen next. I feel like sometimes things in life are unexplainable and LM words things in such a way that is so real but also so entertaining. Another great book! I have to be honest I wasn't the biggest fan of Apples or Nine Perfect... but I did really enjoy this one.

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