Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty
511 pages
Published August 29, 2024
MacMillan Australia
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Here One Moment is an intriguing contemporary fiction novel from bestselling Australian author Liane Moriarty, about what happens when you discover when and how you’re going to die. As usual, there’s a central mystery, and a large cast of characters, likeable and not, but it’s not a thriller.
On a flight from Hobart to Sydney, an ordinary looking older lady suddenly gets up and starts walking down the aisle telling each passenger what they are going to die of, and at what age. Initially her pronouncements are dismissed, but when they start coming true, those with scarily imminent potential demises must see if fate can be fought…
I’d heard a lot about this, almost all positive, so as excited to get stuck in once I got my hands on a copy, after all, I absolutely loved Truly, Madly, Guilty, and Big Little Lies. I was therefore somewhat surprised to find this one dragging after the first chapters. I think the main problem was I just didn’t find Cherry’s life story all that interesting, and more than half of the very long book is her reminiscing about it. Conversely, I was desperate to know what was going to happen to the Good Guys, like Leo, Ethan and Allegra, and to find out exactly what was going on. I therefore really enjoyed the last quarter of the book, where it all comes together brilliantly, and I loved the epilogue! So my advice would be to give it a go, and if you’re getting bored and thinking of quitting after the first 100 or so pages, skip to the last 100. It might even inspire you to go back and read the bits in between!
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