LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER by Kimberly McCreight was a suspenseful family drama that had me guessing!

After a particular review of the audiobook, my interest was piqued and I added the @prhaudio option about halfway through. I had to chuckle a bit, as I love Cassandra Campbell as a narrator, but for some reason Olivia Campbell sounded too young for this character from what I had in my head. Still, it was a good story for me, even if the audio didn't mesh with the voices in my head!

The story begins with Cleo coming home to find her mother, Kat missing. As the story unfolds, layers of secrets inside this seemingly perfect family are revealed, giving multiple options for who could be after this fixer with a complicated past.

What I did like about this story was a peek into how harmful it can be to keep secrets, and how painful it can be to share them with the wrong people. The mother/daughter relationship was fascinating to see with a mom who is dealing with childhood trauma and a daughter who thinks she knows everything and has no idea. Questions of what and when to share with kids is an interesting one to me, and this was a suspenseful way to do that.

If this sounds like a win for you, go grab it as it came out on July 30th! A huge thanks to @aaknopf for sharing this with me through @netgalley and to @prhaudio for the audio!

This was an okay story. I was entertained but also bored at certain parts. The story was a little predictable which caused that dragging feeling. Overall if you like these types of thrillers you will enjoy. The ending also felt flat.

This book was hard to put down. Omg. I seriously read the first couple pages and knew I was going to be struggling to be a responsible member of society.
It didn’t disappoint.
Cleo and her mom have a strained relationship. She hardly approves of the boys she dates at NYU, and this last one is no exception. Things have been icy between them, but when Cleo agrees to come to dinner and finds it burnt, blood and glass on the floor, and her mother missing, she is determined to figure out what happened.
There is so much going on in this book, but not in a bad way. I enjoyed it. So many suspect options. So many interesting leads. Lots of little weird mysteries a long the way. Loved it. Will totally read more from McCreight.
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

Thank you to Netgalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This book officially publishes on 7/30/24!

This book would be great for individuals new to the genre or looking to check it out. For me personally, this was a slow burn; however, I think the twists at the ending make up for it. This book is told from dial POVs with different timelines, which gave the character development a great deal of depth. I’m personally giving this one three stars because the pacing wasn’t on point for me, and one of the MCs I found to be annoying at times. As I did enjoy the ending, however, I will definitely be checking out more books by this author. If you decide to pick this one up, please check any relevant trigger warnings before doing so!

Thanks to Knopf for a copy of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight. I've loved her other books and writes such great domestic thrillers.

I loved the two timelines -- the current one by Cleo as she's trying to find her mom and Kat's which was leading up to her disappearance. This had me guessing a few times and I liked the twists -- there was a lot going on and it seemed a little unbelievable at times, but I still enjoyed it. This really highlighted the mother-daughter relationships and it was a fun and fast paced book to read.

Thank you so much to netgalley and the publisher for the arc of this one in exchange for an honest review!

I am not a huge fan of mother-daughter books but I wanted to give this one a try since it is hyped. However, I was just not a huge fan. I feel like the characters were not developed and the story just took too long to go anywhere.

I hope others love this one!

Like mother like daughter is a fast paced thriller involving a strained mother and daughter relationship. The book was fun to read with a lot of twists.

The story had a lot going on with too many characters which confused me a little, but I enjoyed the writing style. The author had me guessing the perpetrator till the end. The ending left a few loose ends but it was satisfying. Overall is a fun mystery/thriller.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange of my honest review.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight. Thank you NetGalley Knopf Pantheon for my #gifted copy! My review is my own opinion and voluntary.

Kat, newly separated and a “fixer” for prestigious law firm has disappeared, discovered by her estranged college daughter, Chloe.

The book flips from past to present as Chloe tries to unravel the tightly weaved web that her mother has left her. Chloe has a list of suspects, including her Dad. With her boyfriend’s help, Chloe digs her way into her Mom’s past and present, discovering things she’d never dreamed of!
Her Mom is not the person she’d thought, nor is her Dad. In fact, most people in Chloe’s life are hiding deep, dark and possible DEADLY secrets.

My thoughts:
☁️☁️☁️
This book had me HOOKED from the start and SHOCKED me with an unbelievable ending! ❤️

I was in the mood for a thriller and thought this sounded great. Cleo is going home to have dinner with her mom but when she gets there dinner is burning in the oven, her mom is nowhere to be seen and there’s blood on the floor. Solid start!! Unfortunately for me that was the best part of the book. From there we get alternating perspectives of Cleo trying to find her mom and her mom from the week before.

I don’t try to solve thrillers as I read them - I like to just go along for the ride. But this one was so obvious that I realized the ending way too soon and finished hoping that there would be a twist and I would be wrong. I wasn’t. This one was mediocre at best for me. Thank you to the publisher for the free ebook and PRH Audio for the free audiobook.

Like Mother Like Daughter is the first book that actually does something different with a familar trope. Kimberly McCreight's latest centers on Cleo's discovery that her mother Katrina has disappeared. Even worse Cleo discovers that there's a blood stain on her mother's carpet that possibly a link to her Mom's fate. Cleo and Katrina's POV alternates between each chapter which is the usual narrative in almost thrillers, but it suits the story because Cleo is investigating her mother's disappearance, but also discovers things that both shock and surprise her. Katrina reveals that her daughter was difficult as both a child and adult. There relationship is as complex as their personalities which is a nice change from the usual good daughter, bad daughter and vice versa plots. Kimberly McEight's Like Mother, Like Daughter is the type of book that will keep you reading at the beach until sunset.

The dual narratives in Like Mother, Like Daughter creates a twisty mystery in Kimberly McCreight's newest novel. After being convinced by her mother to finally come home for dinner, Cleo arrives at the Park Slope brownstone only to find her mother gone and a bloody shoe on the ground. What has happened to her mother? Cleo is on a mission to find her mother and along the way learns that her mother was much deeper and complicated than she believed.

Overall, the story was a solid mystery with enough twists and turns to keep me invested. I do wish there were fewer characters and tangential storylines. I understand the need for red herrings, but there were many things that were not tied up by the end. I recommend this for readers who just want a good middle of the road mystery to jump into.

The mother-daughter relationship can be fraught, especially when the parent is a worrier and the grown child wants to establish her independence. This family bond is at the heart of this novel.

*****

Katrina (Kat) McHugh and her lookalike daughter Cleo, a student at New York University, have had a tense relationship for months. The rift occurred when Kat broke up Cleo's relationship with her drug-dealing boyfriend Kyle, a 'bad boy' Cleo met at college.

In an effort to mend fences, Kat beseeches her daughter to come to dinner, and Cleo reluctantly agrees. However, when Cleo arrives at the family home in Brooklyn, she finds a blackened pot sizzling on the hot stove; chicken burning in the oven; and Kat's bloody shoe under the sofa. In short, Kat is missing, and it looks like she was suddenly abducted.

Cleo calls her dad, documentary filmmaker Aiden McHugh, who's just getting off a plane.....and they inform the police. The cops arrive to take pictures, swab for DNA, and lift fingerprints, and Detective Wilson - a no-nonsense woman in charge of the investigation - urges Kat and Aiden to stay calm and optimistic.

The rest of the book alternates between two timelines: Kat's narrative, starting eight days before her disappearance; and Cleo's story, describing what she does to help find her mother.

In Kat's chapters we learn that she's an attorney at a classy law firm called Blair, Stevenson, which represents high power corporate clients. Blair, Stevenson is currently defending Darden Pharmaceuticals, which makes a seizure medication called Xytek. A lawsuit alleges that Darden knew of and disregarded Xytek's risks to pregnant patients and their unborn children, and Kat is working on the case. To complicate matters, Kat - who's in the midst of divorcing her cheating husband Aiden - is dating Doug Sinclair, who happens to be a senior executive at Darden Pharmaceuticals. Fraternizing with a client is a no-no, but Kat figures no one has to find out......until a tragic incident occurs. In the midst of all this turmoil, Kat suspects Cleo is secretly back with drug dealer Kyle, and she takes additional steps to terminate the association.

In Cleo's sections, she admits to feeling guilty about being estranged from her mother. Cleo decides to search for Kat herself, and in furtherance of this goal, Cleo finds her mother's diaries. These describe Kat's terrible childhood in a group home, and a crime that occurred there. Cleo also finds Kat's personal computer, with messages from men on dating sites. Cleo withholds all this information from Detective Wilson, and follows up these 'clues' herself.

For me, this part of the book stretches credulity too much. Firstly, only in fiction would a college student - whose mother has disappeared - withhold important information from the authorities. Moreover, each time Cleo tracks down a person of interest, they immediately confide important information......and even offer to help her. This just seems a bit too convenient.

Despite my reservations, the book is a compelling thriller, with the appropriate red herrings and surprise twists. One minor story thread remains unresolved at the end of the book, but this may have been deliberate on the part of the author.

All in all, I'd mildly recommend the book to mystery fans.

Thanks to Netgalley, Kimberly McCreight, and Knopf for a copy of the book.

A great reflection of a sometimes very real relationship between a mother and daughter.
The mothers feelings for her daughter were raw and sometimes over the top with how much she wanted to protect her from the world while also maybe controlling her too much.
This also has a mystery in it because the mom. Katrina, goes missing after she invites her daughter for dinner. There is so much that happens after that but to avoid any possible spoilers I'll keep this short. The company that Kat worked for and all those bits of the story were so boring. I skimmed most of that because I felt like they wouldn't be important at all later.
I halfway guessed the plot twists or mystery of the book. The part about where Kat went was a shock to me but I knew who the bad guy was 2 chapters in. Anyways a good decent read.
Thank you to the publisher for the advanced copy.

This one was a great summer read and I actually ended up getting a hard copy of it too. Cleo is a student at NYU and comes home to Brooklyn to find her mother gone with only a bloody shoe left behind. Thus begins a wild ride of trying to find out who is lying and who is telling the truth. Who is good and who is bad. This emotional suspense book about mother and daughter connections was a good one for me. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and it did drag ( or maybe it was me) in the middle a bit.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. Cloe is suppose to meet her Mother at her childhood home. But when she gets there, there is no sign of her Mother other than a chicken burning in the oven, And then you're on a rollercoaster ride from there on. This was such a fun thriller.

Like Mother, Like Daughter, by Kimberly McCreight, was a thoroughly enjoyable thriller involving a mother who is both more and less than she appears and a young adult daughter who is much more than she knows. Their relationship is filled with stress, strain, and an overabundance of guilt. McCreight is a master of development, creating nuanced characters that are allowed to grow as the story progresses. The story is a bit too convoluted to be believable, with several subplots interwoven. Nonetheless, the resolution left this reader both breathless and satisfied. Who can ask for more?
Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for sending me a digital ARC. I appreciated the opportunity.

I had a really good time with this one from the start, although it started to lose me a little bit in the middle. The initial setup and all the questions it brought with it made for a brilliant setup to the mystery, But as the story progressed, it felt like we were focused on the same elements with little pay off for 15-20% of the book and in my opinion at the most crucial time. I found myself annoyed at Cleo and her dumb decisions, but then I looked at the adults in her life and I kind of get it. In the end, this wrapped up nicely...maybe a little too nicely, but overall enjoyable.

Four stars. I loved the beginning, but it did get a little bit slow in the middle and towards the end. However, the ending was unexpected and no loose ends. Thank you to Natale and the publisher for the free advanced readers copy in exchange for honest review.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a multilayered thriller that kept me fully engaged in the suspense throughout.
There are multiple storylines—the disappearance of Katrina, the determined investigation by her daughter, Cleo, and the whistle-blowing intrigue of a pharmaceutical company’s cover-up involving a dangerous medication it produces. There are also an intriguing cast of characters, both adult and adolescent, that contribute to the plot’s momentum.
Katrina’s story unfolds several days before her disappearance. Cleo’s timeline is from present day to the days after her mother’s disappearance. Cleo especially is interesting to follow as she goes from being a messy, immature college student to becoming a brave tenacious champion of her mother’s plight.
While initially the two timelines felt choppy, with distracting excerpts from litigation, Reddit and media posts, the second half of the book had the timelines flowing more smoothly and the dramatic tension mounting nicely. The conclusion is intelligent and has some great twists.
This novel is both domestic thriller and family drama, and it uses the characters to make observations about motherhood, children, and female friendships. A wide age range of readers who enjoy women’s fiction with their suspense will enjoy this book.

Thank you to Alfred Knopf and NetGalley for the ARC. This is my honest review.

What a twisted web of lies! I liked the story overall, it had a lot of twists and unexpected turns. The switch of characters and time line was a little hard to follow at times, but it worked well to unwind the events of the story. I found myself surprised by several things as the story unfolded. I would read more by this author as I found her writing easy to read. I received an advance copy from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.