September 2024

I read all 501(!) pages of HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty in a day. Needless to say, I loved it. I stayed up way too late reading one night and was up way too early the next morning to finish it. I think I still was working the story through as I slept!

In it, passengers are on edge when their flight from Hobart, Australia, to Sydney is delayed. But real mayhem breaks out when a woman makes her way through the plane identifying travelers with a prediction of how they will die and at what age. People are not sure what this means, but then the prediction for one of them comes true, and it goes viral. From there, readers get to track the lives of five of the passengers as they wonder what happened to others on that flight.

Liane moves readers from character to character as each copes with his or her possible fate. While we learn more about them, I also loved hearing about Cherry Lockwood, the woman who made the predictions. Her story is told in first person, which gives it a level of authority. However, for a good long while, given her actions on that plane, I was distrustful of her. It would be great to hear from Liane about how she wrote the novel as it has so many threads to it. I confess that while I enjoyed BIG LITTLE LIES, I did not love her last couple of books. But HERE ONE MOMENT once again shows me Liane’s talent.