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A review by happiestwhenreading
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
3.0
“The thing is, you can’t always choose your future. Not in a world of risk and uncertainty. No matter what the self-help gurus tell you. You can only attempt to guide it in the right direction, like a willful horse, but accept there will be times when it will gallop off in a direction not of your choosing.”
On an airplane flight, a woman stands up and begins predicting the passenger’s age of death and cause of death. It clearly stirs up a lot of emotions and many of the passengers take what she says to heart, which brings up some interesting questions.
If you knew when you would die and/or how you would die, how would you change how you live? Would you want to know this information?
Moriarty’s premise was super interesting to me. For the first 25%, I was really interested. But then the story slowed waaaay down and I even contemplated DNFing it. Like I said, the premise is there, but the execution didn’t hit for me.
There are books out there that does this better: The Immortalists, The Measure, and even maybe The Change.
On an airplane flight, a woman stands up and begins predicting the passenger’s age of death and cause of death. It clearly stirs up a lot of emotions and many of the passengers take what she says to heart, which brings up some interesting questions.
If you knew when you would die and/or how you would die, how would you change how you live? Would you want to know this information?
Moriarty’s premise was super interesting to me. For the first 25%, I was really interested. But then the story slowed waaaay down and I even contemplated DNFing it. Like I said, the premise is there, but the execution didn’t hit for me.
There are books out there that does this better: The Immortalists, The Measure, and even maybe The Change.