My Right here One Second Evaluate with Spoilers offers my opinion on this new guide by Liane Moriarty. It is a love-it-or-hate-it guide on Goodreads, which is all the time attention-grabbing. Which aspect do I come out on and can YOU adore it … or not?
Right here One Second: Jen’s Fast Take
- That is considered one of Moriarty’s extra philosophical books
- Undoubtedly NOT suspense or a thriller
- I (and a few Goodreads readers) discovered the guide overly lengthy and the ending disappointing
- However readable and discussable
- 512 pages, printed on September 10, 2024 by Crown
- Due to the writer for an advance evaluation copy; I learn this guide in October 2024
- Additionally by this writer: What Alice Forgot (2010), Large Little Lies (2014), The Husband’s Secret (2015), 9 Excellent Strangers (2018), Apples By no means Fall (2021)
Right here One Second Evaluate
Weirdly, this guide jogged my memory of Moriarty’s very first guide, What Alice Forgot, which was a part of a brief pattern of magical realism in ladies’s fiction within the late 2000s and 2010s.
Keep in mind books like The One That I Need by Alison Winn Scotch, and Backyard Spells by Sarah Addison Allen?
The premise of Right here One Second is that on a brief flight from Hobart to Sydney, a passenger (recognized within the guide as Loss of life Woman) walks down the aisle predicting the date and method of dying of all of the passengers.
First they suppose she’s a bit nutty. Then, they discover her annoying and bizarre.
However after the flight lands … considered one of her predictions comes true. The passengers freak out. The media will get wind of the story. Chaos ensues.
It’s a superb premise. Is Loss of life Woman a psychic? A serial killer?
I’ll reveal all within the spoilers under however right here’s what I believed:
- Throughout and after the flight, the passengers bond in a means that jogged my memory of 9 Excellent Strangers, which continues to be my least favourite guide by Liane Moriarty.
- The guide could be very lengthy and goes extensively into Cherry’s (Loss of life Woman’s) life story. I discovered this side a bit tedious at occasions, but it surely’s essential to make the ending work
- The opposite chapters are from the POVs of the passengers, who’re wrestling with their fates
- Right here One Second does do a superb job of displaying how people react to problems with mortality. Some are stoic and decided, some horrified, some traumatized.
I actually disliked the ending, which I’ll clarify beneath spoiler safety. I felt the identical means about it as I did in regards to the ending of Apples By no means Fall. I believed that ending, whereas intelligent, was unsatisfying.
Will You Like Right here One Second?
- Is your tolerance for “woo-woo” topics and philosophizing excessive? Then sure.
- Are you okay with a whole lot of POVs in a guide? Then presumably.
- Do you not thoughts lengthy, meandering books with a really unfastened plot? Then sure.
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