This mystery thriller focused heavily on the complexities of the relationship between a mother and daughter. Cleo begrudgingly agrees to dinner with her mother, only to arrive at a scene pointing to some kind of incident and her mother nowhere to be found. Alternating perspectives and before-after the incident tell the story and slowly reveal answers.

Though well written, it wasn’t a knock out for me. I think there were too many things circling around in the plot - Kat’s unreasonable client, the horrible ex husband, the drug dealing boyfriend, Kat’s mysterious past, the pharmaceutical storyline - it was all a bit much. I also really struggled to care about Cleo and find much redemption in her.

But I think there are many aspects of this book other readers will enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf Publishing.

Kat is a fixer at her law firm. She fixes everyone’s problems when they make terrible decisions. And she is a bit controlling with her college aged daughter. Their relationship is barely existent. Plus she and her husband are getting divorced. She has finally reached her daughter, Cleo, to come to the house so they can have a conversation. When Cleo arrives her mom is not there. There are signs of a struggle. These leads Cleo to investigate and she discovers a lot about her mom that she didn’t know.

Kat and Chloe are so different and so, of course, they have issues in their relationship. But, I really was not a fan of either of them. And lord, don’t get me started about Kat’s husband. He was just bad!

There are a lot of moving parts in this tale and a lot of characters. But this leads to a lot of suspects. I enjoyed all the mystery surrounding Kat’s disappearance. The way this author kept all the suspects straight with their own story and their own reasons to hurt Kat is terrific.

There is not a lot of intensity in this tale but there is a lot of guessing!

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I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.

This book was fast paced but it just felt like it was doing too much. I liked the characters but it just didn't keep my attention as much as I had hoped.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was not predictable. I had no clue what the ending was going to be like. I did guess the “who” but it was a completely random thought and didn’t have any evidence to back it up. I also didn’t have this random thought until I was past the halfway point.

There were a lot of suspects and it was easy to fall into the trap of believing someone new was the culprit every other chapter.

My interest was held from beginning to end and never got annoyed with the progression of the story.

This is one that has a lot of different elements that have to come together for a satisfying story, and remarkably, they do, in a complex and interesting story that I found hard to put down. I think what it's doing about the complicated mother-daughter relationships, especially in early adulthood, is a really excellent part of the story. This one is a ride and it's worth the attention.

Thank you NetGalley and Kimberly McCreight for the opportunity to read this ARC!

This engaging mystery, Like Mother, Like Daughter, tells the complex story of a missing mother, featuring a well-organized plot that maintains suspense and curiosity. The book successfully blends mystery, emotional depth, suspense, and character development, making for an overall enjoyable and captivating read. 3.5⭐️

I would like to thank NetGalley and Knopf for providing me with an advance e-galley of this book in exchange for an honest review. Look for it now in your local and online bookstores and libraries.

The relationship between Cleo and her mother, Kat, reminded me of both my relationship with my mother and the relationship between me and my adult daughter. Once young women reach that "adult" status, it's amazing how much of their mother has been absorbed into their core. Kimberly McCreight has captured that push and pull between the two main characters perfectly. Almost like she's been there, done that.

The book is divided by the opening chapter when Cleo discovers her mother is missing and the police reaction is not what she expects. Kat's story tells the "before" as the build up to her disappearance. Cleo picks up the "after". Along the way, each will find secrets that were not well kept and have to change an opinion or two. The clues are fed sparingly, pay attention to the small pieces of media that are sprinkled throughout the story. At first glance, they don't mean much, but they will lead Cleo in the right direction. This was a very good book with a plot line that feels familiar but McCreight adds so much "punch" to the mix that the urprise at the end is truly a big surprise. 5 easy stars.

I've been a fan of Kimberly McCreight since Reconstructing Amelia and couldn't wait to start reading this new one! I was rewarded with a compulsive page turner.

Cleo is a student at NYU and is going home for dinner. We are privy to her text messages from her mother and her loathing thoughts to read them. This sets the tone of their relationship. Upon arrival, she starts putting out a fire from food that has been left unattended and she notices her mother's shoes with blood on them. Panicked, she calls her dad and the police.

The then/now timeline adds depth to the characters, especially Katrina. I love those a-ha! moments and there are a few. Cleo's curiosity about her mother unearths more questions than answers. Family drama and suspense through the roof, add this to your 'to be read' list ASAP!

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for an early copy.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Alfred A. Knopf for advanced copy for honest review

I want to get my review out as this is a Book of the Month 'main pick' for August!

This quick paced, page turning story starts us off when Cleo comes home for dinner. Now she knows something is a miss when she walks in to find her picture perfect mother, Kat, no where in sight and the house askew. Kat is routine, makes everything in her life look well put together on the outside, but her secret life has caught up with her and her daughter must put the pieces together to find out what has happened to her mom. Again, fast paced, finished in day because you need to find out what happned! 4 stars, Recommend!

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER drew me in immediately with strong writing and wonderfully well-wrought characters, the story leading me deeper and further into the twists and turns Kimberly McCreight has so brilliantly woven. As I read, I found myself totally engaged with how the story proceeds from the daughter's view and the mother's, both women so different and yet so much the same across a widening chasm of their troubled relationship. Somehow, McCreight manages to make the creepy and horrifying both realistic and also compelling for this squeamish reader. It's fraught, taut with great dialogue and deftly drawn relationships. Absolutely recommend. I received a copy of this book and these thoughts are my own, unbiased opinions.

Cleo, a student at NYU, goes home to have dinner with her mother, Katrina, in Brooklyn. When she arrives she finds dinner burning on the stove, a bloody shoe and her mother no where to be found. Now she must race to figure out what happened and discovers a ton of secrets along the way.

This one was fast paced and grabbed me right away. It’s told in alternating POVs with Kat going through the days before her disappearance and Cleo telling what happens in the days after. The dynamic between mother and daughter was complicated and I enjoyed Cleo realizing her mother was more than what she thought she was. There were several storylines and possible suspects which made guessing the end fun. I had the “who”, sort of, but not in the way I thought. There were a few things not answered for me in the end but overall an enjoyable psychological thriller.

Thanks to @netgalley and the publisher for an arc for an honest review.

This mystery just didn’t really come together for me. Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight dives right into the mysterious disappearance of Cleo’s mother, Katrina. Cleo arrives to the Brooklyn brownstone for dinner with her estranged mother and finds a burning pan on the stove and blood everywhere. As Cleo begins to investigate, she finds both of her parents are hiding many secrets. Is one of these secrets the reason her mom has disappeared?

There were just a lot of story lines going on and none of them really held my attention super well. By the time I got to the end, I kind of didn’t care where Katrina was. There was a lot of jumping around for me. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for this story.

If the movies Michael Clayton & Gone Girl were to have a baby it would be this book! While it does start off a little slow, this book is a page turner! If thrillers & “who’s done it” are your thing, this is a must read.

Told between alternating points of view, therapist notes, lawyers notes, and diary entries, Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a fast paced family drama thriller. When Cleo arrives at her mother's house to find a bloody shoes and charred food she instantly knows something is wrong. Torn between divorced parents, Cleo has a better bond with her dad than her mom. As the book unravels we find that Cleo doesn't really have all the pieces to the puzzle and the drama within her family is overwhelming.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is fast paced with a lot of sub plots; at times, it felt like there was too much going on and it left the meat of the story less developed than I would have liked. Though the focus on the neighbor and her daughter did make more sense by the end of the book, I often found myself skimming those scenes because it felt like too many side characters. I thought the story was compelling and while annoying at times, Cleo acted her age; however the execution of the story was a little bit more of a miss for me.

Thank you Knopf for the gifted ARC.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is everything a thriller should be. I read Reconstructing Amelia back in 2014 and loved it so much that when I saw Kimberly McCreight had a new book out, I had to snatch it up.

Kat and Cleo’s relationship was truly the center of this story and everything else played off of it. McCreight wrote it in such a wonderful and complex way and I loved getting to see Kat’s POV before and Cleo’s POV of the aftermath. Throw in the different transcripts, articles and journal entries and the way this book was written and set up had me hooked.

McCreight offered up many suspects and red herrings up until the end. When I thought I had something figured out, it went a completely different direction. The only thing I didn’t enjoy about this is that it was a lot of lead up with an incredibly rushed ending. I just needed a little more from the ending, even with all the loose ends tied up.

Overall I would recommend this book and I can’t wait to read her backlist and anything else new that comes out!

2.5 stars

A college age daughter, Cleo, arrives at her parents’ house for dinner and finds food burning and her mother, Kat, nowhere in sight. She then finds a bloody shoe and understandably grows more concerned. So where is Kat?

Alright, I don’t mind unlikable characters in thrillers as they can be fascinating. Unfortunately Cleo is an insufferable brat who really bogs down the story. Mother-daughter dynamics can be complicated, I get it. But Cleo was over the top, self-involved and it wasn’t much fun reading the parts of the story that featured her. A toned down version of Cleo would have helped as the plot itself is decent. Not awesome, but decent.

On a positive note, I did get a jaw dropping moment which is nice to experience when reading a thriller. For what it’s worth, I really liked A Good Marriage, by this author. I just wish Like Mother, Like Daughter had been more of an enjoyable read rather than a frustrating one.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight was the second book I have read by this author, and both were solid suspense novels. This one tells the story of Kat, who has suddenly gone missing, and her young adult daughter Cleo, who found her childhood empty when she arrived to have dinner with her mother. Cleo and Kat were somewhat estranged, so Cleo has complicated feelings about what may have happened to her mother.

The book is told through two perspectives: the mother, before the disappearance, and the daughter, after the disappearance as she launches her own investigation of sorts and learns there was a lot more to her mom's life than she knew about.

Both Kat and Cleo were fleshed out as well-rounded characters who grew throughout the book. The writing was solid and I appreciated the twists, but the plot was overly complex. I felt some aspects were not necessary in light of how it eventually resolved.

I will recommend this to readers who like to read about mother/daughter relationships and domestic suspense.

Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Cleo arrives for dinner with her mother, Kat, and finds her missing with evidence of a struggle. The book explores the strained relationship between Cleo and Kat and the many secrets of Kat's life. Kat grew up in foster care and left a group home under mysterious circumstances. In the present day Kat is a corporate lawyer to her family but she is actually a "fixer". What actually happened to Kat? Did her past catch up with her or was she taken care of by one of the corporations she deals with?
This book was fast-paced and alternated between Cleo and Kat's viewpoints. It held my interest, but there were too many different storylines and characters and at times it made my head spin. Several of the characters, including Cleo, were terrible people and I felt bad that Kat had so many awful people in her life. Overall this was a quick and easy read but was definitely not my favorite.

I really wanted to love this book, but it was just okay for me. I enjoyed the aspects of the mother/daughter relationship and how the mystery unraveled but overall, it just did not wow me. But I have seen MANY great reviews for this one, so I think I may just have not been the “right” reader.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC! This book is out now.