This one is definitely a thought provoking read. An old lady on a plane gets up and starts to walk down the plane telling everyone as she goes what age they will die and also what cause of death too. This has a big knock on effect not to just the fellow passengers but also their families and friends when they hear the news. After a couple of deaths not long after this event people start to panic as it seems the lady and her predictions seem correct. What would you do if you knew exactly when you’d die? Would you change your life and lifestyle? It’s an interesting thought and makes you think even though we don’t know how long we have we should really live our lives to the full.

As always a great read. Beginning on a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, and elderly woman, Cherry, wanders the plane making predictions as to age and cause of death for each passenger. When three deaths occur in quick succession, passengers seek each other out and try to find the mystery fortune teller. Gentle Ethan worries about being attacked after his next birthday which is fast approaching; Leo considers giving up his job to avoid dying in a workplace accident; newlywed Dom is terrified that he will kill his bride during a sleepwalking episode. And a young mum obsesses over teaching her baby to swim to avoid drowining in a childhood incident. Cherry has no idea she has done this until she too reads it online. Parallel to the current day story,we are taken through Cherry's life with her fortune telling mother "Madame Mae" and see how life events may have affected her. #netgalley #hereonemoment

Here One Moment is a brilliant 5 star book from Liane Moriarty.
I particularly enjoyed the final few chapters as connections between characters were revealed.
Will definitely recommend to others!

Oh my. This book. I was going crazy with it. I mean, I really like Liane Moriarty, like, really. But this one... I have struggled, all the way. Especially at the beginning, and the beginning was about 44% - the author was describing what felt like million characters, in every single details, their lives - the amount of the POVs was enormous and actually till almost very end I was never sure if this character is the one I am thinking they are. Each of the characters had a family, friends, children, whatever, so yes, it felt like reading a telephone book. I think it's simply impossible to care about the characters if you are not able to say who is who and what's their background - you must really think hard. And so I eventually found myself skimming and skipping.

The book dragged on, very much. It started to feel quicker after the first death and I also started to enjoy Cherry's chapters, her story was really great. It's probably Cherry that saved this book for me.

My other problem is, why this book? What was the point of it? Because, you know, I eventually came to the end and... And what? And nothing. No big revelation, nothing, so I'm feeling a little cheated.

Nevertheless, it'S of course very well written and I can see there are many great reviews, so maybe it's just another case of "it's not you, it's me" - give it a try, preserve, maybe it will be worth your time.

To be honest for the first 15% of this book I just wasn’t sure if I would be able to read to the end. But as I have read previous books by this author and enjoyed them I carried on. Her writing style is good and the characters are always delivers and interesting.
There seemed to be some places where a new chapters or proper break when the person that was being talked about changed would have made reading this much easier.For this reason I deducted one star as it did affect my enjoyment of the book.
Overall good storylines for each of the characters and an interesting way that each of their stories interconnected.
3.5 stars

Liane Moriarty's *Here One Moment* feels like a conversation with an old friendᅳfamiliar, comforting, but still surprising in the way which only she knows how to do! ⁤⁤The story is about love, life, and those small, everyday moments that end up meaning everything. ⁤⁤Moriarty has a knack for creating characters who feel like real people, with real struggles and joys. As with all her other books, it made for a great read and I suspect it will be turned into a movie or a Netflix series in the not too distant a future!

HERE ONE MOMENT - LAINE MORIATY - ARC
When I started reading this I was so confused by the multiple POV there's no distinction between who's who so took me a while to realise which character we were catching up with at that time. However as the storyline evolved I kind of understood a little bit more and by about 60% through I was hooked. I'm not sure if all of Laine's books are like this and it's just the style or if it's just this one as this is the first I've read but I will give another a go to find out.
The storyline is fascinating though and I think I may have stuck it out due to sheer morbid curiosity rather than anything else but I did manage to enjoy the storyline!
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i wanted to love this book and for the first 20% i was hooked and i couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. it then kind of lost me in the middle and i found the constant switching of stories confusing and hard to take in.
did i enjoy it yes i did, did i love it sadly no

If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to fight fate? That's the brilliant premise of this as six people are given imminent 'death' predictions from an old lady. The chapters alternate between them all so you really get to know and get attached to them, to the point where it's difficult to read as you worry about their deaths. And that's what makes this fascinating, how they each handle their predictions so differently and the unconscious impact it has on their decisions and actions. You also get the 'death lady's' backstory and POV although hers didn't grab me quite as much and it probably wasn't necessary to hear from her quite as often as we did. It's definitely the sort of thought-provoking book that stays with you and you talk to people about afterwards. I totally recommend it.

A book about fate and destiny.

A lady stands up on a flight and starts telling people their cause and age of death.
The repercussions in those lives following the predictions is a great concept for a novel. Well written as you would expect from Liane Moriaty.

A great read, if a little long.. it kept me engaged to the end.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Here One Moment is a curious read. Following the lives of a number of passengers travelling when the Death Lady (as she becomes known) makes predictions about when people on the plane will die, and of what the story seems to encourage us to consider how we live our lives in light of this knowledge.
Whether they believe her predictions or not, many of the passengers take steps to minimise the likelihood of them dying in the way she foretold. When the predictions start to come true, people can’t decide what to do.
I admit to finding some of the characters more engaging than others. The approach also started to feel a little repetitive. It was interesting to start looking into the lives of some of the characters, and once we learnt a little more about the lady herself I found my interest was maintained.

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty presents an intriguing concept—a woman on a flight predicts the deaths of passengers, sparking chaos as her prophecies begin to come true. The story follows multiple characters as they grapple with the unsettling revelations, diving into their fears and existential crises.
While the premise is dark and thought-provoking, the novel's slow pace detracts from its potential. The first half is quite sluggish, and the focus on telling rather than showing made it hard to stay fully engaged. However, the second half of the book picks up significantly, with characters like Cherry, the mysterious clairvoyant, adding depth and intrigue.
Moriarty weaves together these complex lives with her signature insight into human nature, making the resolution satisfying.
Very grateful to the publisher for my copy, opinions are my own

I didn’t want to put this book down. I had to though, it was a long book, and not a light read. When I did put it down, I was still thinking about it. I’m a true believer in fate. I think your life is pre determined when you’re born. When your time is up there’s nothing you can do about it, so on and so forth. This story however, got me thinking. Can you really fight fate? As much as the story is worrying, it is also uplifting. It’s happy. It’s sad. It did jump back and forth quite a bit, keeping me on my toes. I loved the multiple POVs. It was lovely getting into everyone’s mindset and wondering - ‘how would I react to that?’ Highly entertaining, extremely addictive, and at times a little bit emotional. I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. This is my honest review.

What a gripping, beautifully crafted first chapter. In a few pages, the author introduces us to all the main characters in a thoroughly intriguing way, setting the stage for a very different story. I was gripped.
An otherwise unremarkable woman disrupts a flight by predicting how each of the passengers will die, and when. We gradually learn more about her past and dip into the lives of a number of the passengers, some of whom, according to her, are soon to meet their death.
Will her predictions come true? Do they affect the way the characters live their lives? This book will make you think about age-old questions about fate. Is your life predetermined? Could the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Can fate be fought?
An enjoyable, interesting read.

I have a huge fear of flying. You know crashing (especially into the sea), terrorist bombs, turbulence, waiting so long to take off you just want to escape.
But I hadn't considered the idea that on a short flight an older woman might just get up out of her seat and go up and down the aisle pointing at passengers, telling them what is wrong with them and at what specific age they might die.
Cherry is the woman who becomes known as the 'Death Lady' long after the flight when one of her predictions actually happens.
The author is prolific and highly successful - and many of her novels have been turned into TV series (currently 'Apples Never Fall' is on our screens) and highly dramatic often family related scenarios are her go to plot.
"...life....both your wildest dreams and your worst nightmares come true" - it says in the novel. It is nearly halfway through the book before the first death and by then Moriaty has outlined some good vignettes of the other passengers. The newly weds (still wearing their wedding finery) learn the wife will die through domestic violence and a mother is told her son will drown aged 7.
So often the book delves into how the passengers take on a new direction in life to avoid such a calamity as predicted on their memorable flight. For it becomes a news worthy story when investigations begin to be made into the Death Lady. The predictions lie heavier on some more than others and maybe this reveals to us whether we should be pessimistic about the future or as so many say 'live each day as if it weas your last.'
That is where the interest lies. In why a seemingly quiet older woman decided to do this. Was she suffering from dementia? Had she genuine psychic powers?
This is not usually the sort of book I would read but the author builds the drama well and I was definitely involved with Cherry's life and why she came to that point on that flight.
But I'm still not a fan of flying!

What a brilliant story that hooked me in from the beginning. I loved how the lives of strangers were interwoven and linked by the predictions of Cherry on an internal Australian flight. I really enjoyed the story of Cherry's life but all the characters are so well written that you invest in their lives as well.
The question of how you would cope if you knew how and when you would die and could you change the outcome by is thought provoking.

Liane Moriarty doesn't disappoint her readers.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read Here One Moment.

I have read other books by Liane and adored them but this one did justnot rck my boat. I struggleed all the way through and did not enjoy it at all. I found the writing style was too confusing with the sudden change of character wihout any warning made me reread many times tocatch up with who was talking before and after. The premise of the story was good is so much as what would anyone do faced with a date and reason for their death. How would they react and try to stop the event happening. I think that taking the death lady aspects as a new chapter each time would have made the distinction of character stories so much easier to follow. I could understand the fears of the people who were given these preditions and also it was good to see how the families and friends all reacted as well..

Here One moment by Lianne Moriarty is about a psychic who predicts cause of death and age at death of passengers on board a flight. The passengers of course don't know whether she is a "real psychic" or someone suffering a mental health crisis but, understandably they are all shaken by her predictions. The rest of the novel focuses on the aftermath of these predictions and the psychics background.

I really enjoy multi-timeline/multi narrative books however, and this could be because I was reading on kindle, but there was no separation between where one part ended and the next began which made things a little confusing.

I really love Liane Moriartys books but due to the reason above it did ruin it for me a little. I would recommend this book and hopefully the issue was just with the kindle version rather than the way it has been written.

I love Liane Moriarty, this was such a clever story. Interesting characters with unique stories and I loved how it all sort of linked up at the end.

My only niggle was there were no chapters or breaks, so it took a minute to work out that the person had changed. Not sure if it was Netgalley thing or book is actually written like that.

It has been a while since I read any Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies being the last) so I was delighted to receive this ARC.

Here One Moment is quite a disturbing novel that I almost stopped reading because of the nature of the plot (I am notorious for not reading blurbs properly). However I am glad I didn't stop.

The plot begins on an airplane where an elderly lady suddenly begins to give predictions to the captive passengers. Unusually though she is only predicting the manner and age of death for all the passengers she comes across.

The narrative then follows a select number of those passengers and also the life story of the psychic passenger, who comes to be known as the Death Lady once the first predictions come true.

The question is what would you do if you knew when and how you would die? Would you change your life or just accept fate? The story of the passengers is eye opening and I got engrossed in their lives.

Liane Moriarty has produced another addictive story. The characters are all very believable and their reactions fascinating. I liked the juxtaposition of the passengers' stories set against Cherry's (the Death Lady) life story. It certainly held my interest.

Recommended.

Thankyou to Netgalley and Penguin for the advance review copy.