LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER is a perfect combination of carefully crafted suspense and messy family drama. McCreight continues to show that she can weave together a downright addictive read.

Why is there something so deliciously entertaining about a family with secrets? All I can tell you is in this book the lies, deception, and a huge secret from a hidden past made it positively bingeable. The complex relationships throughout this book are what make the tension build as the search for Kat continues. The characters’ interactions are honest especially that of Cleo and Kat. This mother-daughter duo seems to not have much in common on the surface but wait and see. By the end, there are some twists, turns, and wonderfully shocking reveals which will bring the story full circle.

McCreight’s ability to write an engaging mystery is only made better by the characters she creates. The path to finding a missing mother will pull you in and not let go until the end. What a read!

2.5 stars. I had high hopes for this book and it sadly fell flat for me. A lot of it felt very repetitive.

Putting this one down at 25% after a few weeks of having no desire to pick it up. I normally really enjoy Kimberly’s books, but this one was a miss for me. It was confusing, I felt after 80 pages I still had no clue what was going on or where the story was headed because it had yet to head anywhere. The only real takeaway I had was that the mom was a little weirdly obsessed with her daughter's life.

3.75 stars. While I appreciated the complexity of this book and the ending, I felt like it was an average book. I did enjoy the two FMCs. I guessed most of the ending but enjoyed reading it play out. I do have a few other novels by this author that I've heard great things about so I will continue to read her backlist.

Another great book by Kimberly McCreight. I have read them all and she continues not to disappoint. This story was a well written one with lots of characters and fine storytelling. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Cleo and her mother don’t have the best of relationships, but Cleo has finally agreed to have dinner with her mom, Kat. When she arrives, she finds the food burning, one lone shoe and blood on the floor. Kat is a no nonsense patent lawyer, or so everyone thinks. In the days before her disappearance, Kat feels threatened from many different angles, but who has taken her and is there a chance she’s OK? Told in different timelines and in past and present, this book moves quickly and McCreight does a good job with the red herrings, leaving the reader guessing throughout. Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

When university student Cleo goes home to see her mother and dinner she finds that there has been a struggle and her mother’s heel covered with blood. Katrina (mother) and Cleo have been estranged since Katrina interfered with Cleo’s relationship with a drug dealer. When it appears to Cleo that the police aren’t taking her mother’s disappearance seriously, she decides to investigate on her own. Aided by a sympathetic cop and hindered by her lackadaisical father (who’s separated from her mother), Cleo investigates her mom’s computer as well as her place of business. Katrina had always led Cleo to believe she was a patent attorney, but it turns out she was a fixer for wealthy and powerful people. She was also, in her youth, an abandoned child who lived at Haven House until she was adopted at the age of 14. Cleo finds her mother’s journal from those years and feels appalled—and guilty—to read about the abuse her mother endured. As Cleo is drawn deeper and deeper into the details of her mother’s life, she finds herself in danger. Is Cleo getting to close to find out what and who struggled with her mother?

The author has written a suspenseful thriller. McCreight alternates first-person chapters about Cleo’s search with chapters in Katrina’s voice about the days leading up to her disappearance. The story is extremely well paced and effective. No one, of course, is who they seem. Both Katrina and Cleo are tough as nails and vulnerable. What I found fascinating was how Katrina and Cleo combat the evil they encountered.

I had high hopes for this. The story started off strong and too a hold of you with Cleo finding her mother’s missing and a blood trail in the family kitchen.

Really liked the Multiple POV’’s and the use of articles and transcripts throughout the book. The plot twist didn’t come until about the last 10% and while good, felt there are plot holes that were never answered. Like how did the old man get the mother to his house in his bed??

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC

The story of a complicated mother-daughter relationship plus suspense and a mystery. I enjoyed this book. Thank you for the opportunity to review it!

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a twisty mystery featuring a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter.
I enjoy thrillers with dual POVs and this was no exception. Cleo's POV takes place after she finds her mother missing while Kat's are a countdown to the day she disappears.
I didn’t care much for Cleo so, for the most part, I preferred Kat's POV. I was curious about her past and enjoyed the slow unraveling of her secrets.
What I enjoyed most was the addition of the mixed-media format - transcripts, news articles, journal entries, etc.
I did figure out who the culprit was before it was revealed but I still liked how everything played out and was satisfied with the ending.

Cleo arrives for dinner at her mother’s home, a mother with whom she has been feuding for quite a while. Upon arrival, she sees signs that something terribly wrong has occurred, and no signs that her mother is anywhere in the house. Determined to find her mother, Cleo dives deep, discovering her mother has been keeping a lot of secrets from her.

McCreight has a beautiful writing style, and is especially adept at keeping characters’ varying perspectives unique. Tension and suspense are built up well, as secrets are slowly and carefully revealed. I would recommend this book.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was a fun whodunit type read, with an oddly sweet theme for a murderish mystery. I loved the elements that explored motherhood in its complex entirity, and how where we come from sometimes impacts the type of mother we become. I loved the dual POV from Mother and Daughter, showcasing both sides of these fragile, yet unbreakable bonds!

As mentioned, LMLD is told in dual POV, but also in dual timeline, which I originally didn't like, BUT ended up really enjoying because it made it possible for both sides to tell a story without repeating one another. Mom, Kat, tells the pre event timeline, and daughter Cleo, tells the post event timeline.

After Cleo arrives home after being summoned to talk to her mother about something "important", she finds her mother missing and her shoe and blood on the floor. This event kicks off a wild journey of a mother who spent months trying to save her daughter from impending danger, and an adventure of a sleuth daughter trying to save her mother from suspected danger. As both women go to extra lengths to protect one another, they both begin to discover their bond is much stronger than either of them had recently believed, and as they begin to uncover each other's secrets, they find they may be more alike than they care to admit.

I loved this book. It kept me hooked from the first page and it was more than just a thriller. The dynamic of a complicated mother daughter relationship was well flushed out in this story

This is one of those books that I know a month from now, I won't remember much about. There really wasn't anything that made it stand out. I did like the way the story was told and that there were enough characters to keep you guessing. The ending was a little bit of a let down and the story did read at times like a YA. I will continue to read this author as I have loved previous books.

Kat invited her daughter, Cleo, for dinner but when Cleo arrived, Kat was nowhere to be found. Not only that, but food was burning and Kat’s bloody shoe was under the sofa.

Cleo and Kat haven’t had the best relationship, but Cleo can’t shake the feeling that something must have happened to Kat. As she digs into what her mom has been doing, she unearths secrets and lies, and starts to question whether anything is as it seems.

Thank you to @netgalley for providing a copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Huge fan of the twists but not of the characters.

Cleo and her mom, Kat, have a complicated relationship. When Kat begs Cleo to come for dinner, Cleo unhappily agrees. When she shows up at Kat's house to find a puddle of blood and her mother missing, she panics. What exactly is her mother into? Can she figure it all out before something terrible happens or is she too late?

Cleo and Kat's relationship is intriguing but both characters are equally morally awful. Found myself not really rooting for either one of them which made it hard to be invested in the back story.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was just not for me. I didn't like any of the characters. The plots fell short and I had zero emotions reading it.

I have enjoyed a couple of books by this author but this one I didn't. Maybe it was me but it just seemed off somehow.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I love a twisty thriller and this one delivered!

Cleo is a college student who doesn't always get along with her mom, Kat. Kat has asked her to come for dinner and she reluctantly agrees. When she gets home, she finds food burning on teh stove, blood, and her mom is missing.

Kat is a prestigious attorney. But we find out she is the firm's "Fixer" which could have her in some hot water. What could have happened to her? Cleo is determined to find out - but will she be too late?

Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I thought this book was really good. I haven't read much from this author but I really enjoyed the writing style. I really enjoyed the twists as well. I will be reading from this author.

Cleo arrives at her mother's house for dinner, only to find that she's gone missing. As the investigation ramps up, Cleo decides to take matters into her own hands and dives into secrets from her mother's past. l've loved McCreight's other books, but this was a miss for me. The plot lines felt unrelated for about 65% of the book. What frustrates me most about this book is that each of the disparate plot points were interesting, but they all felt unfinished. There are bones of 2-3 really good books in here. Even though I found Cleo largely insufferable and Kat a little too saint-like, I enjoyed the commentary on motherhood in here.