I loved this book! Couldn’t put it down once it really got going! It had plenty of twists I didn’t see coming as well as a few I did guess. Overall a fantastic book!

Thank you, NetGalley and Knopf, for this ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight!
This is a suspenseful mystery thriller-style book, which is always my absolute favorite! The story is about a girl named Cleo and her mother, Kat. Cleo and Kat do not have a great mother/daughter relationship and are sure at wit's end with one another. The book's chapters jump from each other's perspectives following the events of Kat's disappearance. I enjoyed the back-and-forth in this format. I was intrigued by how the author wrote this book's timeline and thought it was well executed. The story had a good plot and added details that kept you intrigued. Multiple characters were introduced throughout the book, but they stayed relevant enough for you to remember who each person was, which I always enjoy.
However, the ending of this book was rushed. It could have been dragged out longer and more suspenseful like the rest of the book, which kept me interested. But I did not see that ending coming and was really into it! I do wish it had played out longer. There was more to that situation that hadn't been explained, and I would have liked all those details. Cleo's involvement in the final parts of the book is significant and I wanted more! I also wanted the ending to have more developed details as to how it all played out and just more information on those other characters involved.
Overall, this was a well-written thriller, a testament to the author's skill, and I look forward to reading more from this author. Thank you again for this ARC!

#LikeMotherLikeDaughter #NetGalley

This story was one I flew through in a weekend. It moved quickly and had many different layers, although at points I felt like they overshadowed the main storyline. . I think the multiple perspectives were done very well being in different time frames of the main event.

I always enjoy a plot that I cannot figure out and here is another one. Everyone is this family has secrets, some are somewhat harmless, other are self-destructive, and then there are those that are down-right dangerous. What is the mother's j0b? What was her childhood like? Can she outwit the baddies? My thanks to the author and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of this book.

Great read. Full of suspense and twists. I really enjoyed the way this book was written from the 2 pov’s and time periods. Looking forward to more from this author. Thanks to NetGalley for the privilege to read and review this book.

3.5*
This book grabbed my attention in the beginning but towards the middle I suddenly lost it and then it came back in the end. I felt like there were a lot of "leads" of what happened to Kat and I didn't expect it to go the way it did. It felt like the solution was thrown in and then the book ended which didn't satisfy the mystery for me. Some points I called out prior but that just made me happy that I got to say "I knew it." The characters weren't super interesting, but I liked them enough.

Thank you to Kimberly McCreight, Knopf Publishing, and NetGalley for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

I kept putting this off because I wasn't in the mood for the genre. I am so glad I waited. I really enjoyed the story and all the mystery. It had enough twists and turns to make you not want to put the book down. There was a lot going on and at times it was a bit hard to keep up, but overall it was a great twisty thriller.

Cleo has been told a web of lies from seemingly everyone around her, and now that her mother is missing, everything is about to come unraveled.

This book was a great psychological thriller that will keep you guessing who is behind all the threatening text messages & the disappearance of Cleo’s mom, Kat. There’s TONS of drama here which made it easy to get sucked into the story, on top of the mystery of what happened to Kat and Cleo’s race to find her mom.

You’ll feel allllll the emotions between Cleo and Kat and their complicated mother/daughter relationship.

This was my first McCreight read, but it certainly won’t be my last! Thank you to NetGalley & the publisher for an advanced copy!!

Kimberly McCreight’s books always draw me right in, and this one was no exception.

Mother, Kat, and daughter, Cleo, have a strained relationship, but when Kat goes missing, Cleo begins to search for the truth. She begins to uncover many of her mother’s secrets as she works to find her.

I really enjoyed the alternating perspectives and timelines. Each helped you gather more information as the reader tries to piece together what happened. While I was able to predict one of the bigger reveals, there were other twists that I didn’t expect. I enjoyed the perspectives of both Kat and Cleo. The book was fast paced and an exciting read. I had trouble putting it down the entire last half of the story for sure! I would recommend giving it a read if you enjoy a thriller and some family drama.

Thank you to NetGalley and Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House for providing me with an ARC to read and review.

My second read from this Author and this one did not disappoint. A cat and mouse domestic thriller with a bit of espionage thrown in. Mutiple characters that each played a part which made for very interesting reading.
Thank you to Netgalley, Knopf and the Author Kimberly McCreight for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Cleo and her mom, Kat, have a strained relationship. Cleo is used to Kat being perfect, while Cleo has a bit of a rebellious streak. Unbeknownst to Cleo, her mom actually works as a fixer. But what happens when Kat’s family starts getting threats and she runs into problems she can’t fix? Cleo shows up to her mother’s house for dinner one evening and finds a half cooked meal and a bloody shoe. What happened to Kat, and can Cleo figure it out before it’s too late?

This story was easy to get through. The ups and downs of Cleo and Kat’s relationship were so relatable and really drew me in. I enjoyed the way the book was told in alternating timelines and POVs, as well as therapy sessions and recordings, as it came together piece by piece. It had me engaged the whole time, and I loved the elements of the past always coming back in some way or another.

Thank you to Kimberly McCreight, Knopf Publishing, and NetGalley for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

Ope! What a ride. Family thriller/drama with lots of turns to keep you pulled in! I can’t resist a good revenge story either!

People tend to show less compassion to others who are exactly like them. I don’t know exactly why but it could very well be because of not feeling so special anymore when you find someone so similar to them. I think it happens a lot when it comes to mothers and daughters. Fathers and sons would wear it like a badge of honor, but moms and daughters clash.

Cleo and Kat were exactly like that. Cleo was acting like she was nothing like her mother because she didn’t have information on her mother to gauge who exactly she was. Kat knew that her daughter was not so different than her even though there was a generational difference. They made the same mistakes. They made the same decisions. But they kept on biting each others’ heads off. Until Kat disappeared and Cleo realized that she was the only one who cared.

I liked the history repeats itself theme in this book, but not sure how Kat’s professional life was really impacting anything in the story. It was just one big red herring that I could live without. Instead of that I would prefer to have more on Kat’s life from before. Overall it was an intriguing page turner to remind the daughters that we are our mothers after all.

Wow. Just, wow.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a thought-provoking thriller that immediately grabbed my attention, and held it!

McCreight’s writing style was a real treat and I fell in love with the way she structured this dual-perspective story. As a mother of daughters myself, I couldn’t help but be introspective about my own motherhood and relationship with my mother as I learned more about Cleo and her mother, Katrina.

Their strained relationship was so tangible, and it made the story feel even more “real”. I often have a hard time emphasizing with the characters in thrillers because there is such a focus on the action, but McCreight had me so invested in these main two!

As the pieces came together in this mystery, I was an emotional wreck. The ending of this book had me in tears of disbelief, and I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve never been rocked this hard by reading a thriller.

A 5-star rating isn’t enough for this one!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC to read and review. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading more from Kimberly McCreight.

This mystery is told between two POV's, mother Katrina and daughter Cleo, who don't have the best relationship. Cleo show's up for dinner at her mom's house to find dinner burning on the stove and her mom nowhere to be found. There are things amiss that have her worried something bad has happened to her. The story is also told in different timelines. One is different hours before the disappearance and the other is different hours after the disappearance. In Kat's chapters we are getting background about her shady customers she helps in her position as a "fixer" for her law firm, as well as her concerns about her daughter's choice of boyfriend and extracurricular activities. In Cleo's chapters we are following her as she tries to figure out what happened to her mother while learning things about her mother that she never expected. The story started off strong and sucks you in but then it just kind of flat lines for most of the book. There was not a lot of excitement, and it just didn't have me wanting to pick it back up. While the ending did have a bit of a surprise twist, it felt very rushed. I would have liked more confrontation. It definitely has a heavy mystery feel verses thriller.

Thank you NetGalley & author for an ARC of this book. #netgalley #likemotherlikedaughter

When Cleo discovers her mother Kat missing, she learns more about her mother's life and realizes not everything was as she thought. Overall, a mystery that keeps you guessing until the end as two stories are told between mother and daughter. Cleo's perspective was harder to read as she seemed to be frustrated with her mother for reasons that weren't entirely clear.

This one had me guessing. In a good way. Until the end. I suspected, then questioned myself. Well done dual timeline with several unlikable characters and several more questionable characters! This is a story of deception and selfishness, with the added fun of bad marriages, mother-daughter feuds, high power careers and just enough twists and turns to keep you interested!

Description: "A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thriller.

When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks."

ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

This story had so many twists and turns and I had no idea where it was headed! I really liked all the mystery surrounding the families lives and how both mother and daughter play detective in their own ways. The story half my attention and kept me intrigued to the last page! I would highly recommend to anyone who likes psychological thrillers and mysteries centering around a family!

Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for my gifted advance reader copy.

Though Katrina is known as a ‘fixer’ at her high-powered law firm, she struggles to repair her relationship with her daughter, Cleo. On the night she finally convinces Cleo to come over for dinner, Katrina disappears. Cleo arrives at her family home to discover dinner burning on the stove and blood on the floor. She frantically tries to piece together her mom’s movements and ends up learning much more about Katrina than she anticipated.

I generally enjoy Kimberly McCreight’s books, but this one just didn’t do it for me. I felt like I was reading two separate stories- one about Katrina’s disappearance and Cleo, and another about Darden Pharmaceuticals. Though I sped through the last few chapters, the majority of the book felt slow and disjointed to me. Maybe it’s because my head hasn’t been in the game lately, or maybe it’s because this one was a little too scattered and over the top for my taste.

This novel shown us how the relationship between a mother and daughter is not always as it seems. When Cleo's mother goes missing, she is scrambling to put the missing pieces together to find her.