Reading.is.your.destiny

It’s #markyourcalendarmonday where I share 5 reviews for books I’ve LOVED and want to hype up months before pub date

Thank you so much to @crownpublishing for the free book!

Title: Here One Moment
Author: @lianemoriarty_official
Pub date: September 10, 2024

SHE HAS DONE IT AGAIN! I don’t know how she does it, but she always does!

I’m a ‘Liane Stan’ and always will be. This is competing now against WHAT ALICE FORGOT and BIG LITTLE LIES for my favorite Moriarty book.

Liane doesn’t crank books out every year like some authors which makes the reading experience of her books even that much more special to me. I take them in slowly and savor them since it will likely be another 3ish years before another one. As much as I tried to take in this 500+ page book slowly, I simply couldn’t. I HAD to know what was happening and frankly I had no idea how she was going to pull of an ending in this book. Even when I was 80-90% I was starting to sweat not seeing a way she could tie up all the loose ends and close this story out in a way that was satisfactory. But, to no one’s surprise, she blew me away with the ending. I closed the book and sat with my tears for several minutes afterwards.

While there were a lot of characters, I never had trouble remembering who was who or what their particular story was because of the level of detail in which they were described. Liane may be accused of being overly wordy by some, but I think it serves the exact purpose that she wants it to, hence the reason I will NEVER complain that her books are too long. For me, it’s truly a joy to read whatever she writes and I can’t say that for many authors.

This story starts out with a bustling plane full of unique characters all on their own journey when one thing ties them together. They are each approached by a woman on the plane named Cherry and told 1. Their age of death 2. Their cause of death. Not surprisingly, this causes a huge uproar as some are told they will die even within a year!

Cherry’s chapters are told in first-person narration while all the other chapters follow the other characters from the plane in third-person narration. I loved how this was done. It really made me feel connected to Cherry and that she was the star of the show! At first I thought I would struggle without chapter labels, but once I understood that it helped me greatly!

This would make an excellent choice for a bookclub pick since there are so many different things to discuss from character progression, life lessons, etc.

There’s no way this won’t end up being a TV series like her last few works! I could see this playing out SO well on screen!