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BOOK BLITZ x RANDOM THINGS TOURS: One Moment by Becky Hunt



The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn't feel fair that she'll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now, she's still ... here - wherever here is - watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most.

Evie cannot contemplate her life without Scarlett, and she certainly cannot forgive Nate, the man she blames for her best friend's death. But Nate keeps popping up when she least expects him to, catapulting Evie's life in directions she'd never let herself imagine possible. Ways, perhaps, even those closest to her had long since given up on.

If you could go back, knowing everything that happens after, everything that happens because of that one moment in time, would you change the course of history or would you do it all again? 

"My life would have been lesser, without her in it. I wish, desperately, that I had taken more time to make her realise this while I still alive. Wish I could tell her that it wasn't one-sided. It wasn't me, sharing my brightness with Evie. We made each other shine brighter."

If you love books that make you want to ugly cry and feel all the feelings — here’s one for you. A mesmerizingly bittersweet portrait of loss and love that shows the lasting impact that real friendship can leave in our lives in the most magical ways. Fans of classic heartbreaking after-death stories like In Five Years, One Day or If I Stay are going to fall in love with this. It has the comfort of that familiar formula with Hunters unique blend of warmth and wit to make something beautifully unique.

Our main narrator is Scarlett, a woman we meet already with the knowledge she’s about to die and watch on as her life ends and she finds herself not quite gone, but instead trying to figure out what’s next and watching the impact her death has on those she loved and left behind.

Like her best friend Evie, who we watch over as she deals with rage, grief, loss and love — the entire complex spectrum of feelings and confusion that death can leave in its wake. She was bitter and angry, but every part of me felt the pain she was dealing with as she tried to find a way to live in a world that not only didn’t have Scarlett anymore and trying to solve the mystery of her final hours but one where she keeps being reminded of a man who was the reason she died. There is a little bit of very sweet, emotional romance going on which for me did feel a bit too familiar but it worked well in the story and definitely made me smile.

And on a personal level, having a character who lives with a chronic illness without it needing to be the main plot point of their story was so refreshing for me and made me find even more of myself in the pages, and in their lives.

The story moves quickly, fluidly like a dream at times — memories popping up and thoughts being spoken out loud to the reader to create a natural flow that made it impossible not to read it all in one sitting. Every little moment had its place in a beautiful snapshot of lives intertwining, of light returning to someone's life, of seemingly insignificant things that change everything.

A familiar story but with a universally understood message of love and friendship that was so affirming and healing — now I need to go call my friends and tell them I love them, so just read it yourself.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐


I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an hones review. 

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