by Liane Moriarty
Crown, 2024. 501 Pages. Fiction.
An ordinary flight becomes extraordinary when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as "The Death Lady," leading to a race against time for some and a chance to redefine their time left for others. How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job? Here One Moment looks at friends, lovers, and family and how we manage to hold onto them in our harried modern lives.
Although I enjoyed this book, it is not my favorite title by author Liane Moriarty. Despite that, the book has charms and appeals and I recommend giving this book a chance. The chapters alternate perspectives between the large cast of likeable characters. Story lines weave together throughout the book but its clear and easy to keep track of who's who. At first glance, its a dark plot summary, a woman predicting deaths and her predictions beginning to come true. The tone of the book is not heavy though, and tends towards positivity. In the end, the novel wraps up in a neat, safe bow. It almost feels like this book was written for a TV miniseries. And as someone who enjoyed the other TV miniseries made from books by Moriarty, Big Little Lies and Apples Never Fall, this book is worth a read.
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When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on Annie for support through addiction and recovery. Annie's daughter discovers disturbing truths about life in a small town, including at her new best friend's house, where she stumbles upon a dangerous secret. These and other characters reconfigure their lives and learn how to go on, after Annie.
by Mikki Brammer
St. Martin's Press, 2023. 314 Pages. Fiction.
Feeling a stronger connection with the dying than to the living, Clover, a death doula in NYC, has no life of her own until the final wishes of a feisty old woman sends her across the country to uncover a forgotten love story--and perhaps, her own happy ending.
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