Cleo's world comes crashing down in a matter of hours when, first, her mother goes missing and is feared dead, and then when Cleo discovers her parents have been keeping so many secrets from her. Not knowing who to trust, Cleo begins her own investigation.

My first thought when I started reading this book was how accurately it depicts the family dynamics in a home with a "doer" mom, a too laidback dad and a daughter who resents the mom for being the "rule-enforcer". The story has a well thought out dual POV with Cleo giving the account of events in the present, hours after her mother's disappearance, and Kat, the mother - of the days leading up to that. I thought it was very well executed and added an element of suspense to Kat's narrative.

The novel had plenty of twists and revelations, so it was a very exciting read. I was a little surprised by the ending and had some unanswered questions, but also there was a little cringe moment about Cleo's boyfriend. I don't want to sound like her mom, but come on, girl, ugh...

I think this novel is a perfect read for those who enjoy domestic thriller subgenre. It is fast-paced, with lots of tiny twists and secrets from past and present. It is also a phenomenal read about mother-daughter relationships.

“Surviving, I have come to realize, is not the same as being alive.”

4.5 stars! If you are a daughter or you have a daughter this book will hit hard. That mother daughter dynamic is a wild and tricky one, and that dynamic is on full display in this book!

Like Morher, Like Daughter has twists and many moving parts but comes together seamlessly with the most satisfying of endings.

The audiobook has two narrators and they are fantastic! They do a great job of harnessing the angst and stress of a missing mom and the family she left behind.

“Too bad she’s not here. My mom would be so good at finding herself.” IS THIS NOT EVERY MOTHER?! 😂😂😂😂

Thanks for the free audiobook @PRHAudio #PRHAudioPartner and to @Netgalley, @aaknopf, and the author for the ARC.

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher/author for providing me with an E-Arc of this book. The following is my honest opinion *

3.8⭐ out 5

This story is told in dual POVs: mother, Katrina McHugh, and daughter, Cleo McHugh. Despite having a very tumultuous relationship with her mom, Cleo puts it upon herself to find out what happened to her mom after finding a bloody mess in her house and her missing.

This was my first time reading anything from this author and I really enjoyed it. At first, I really couldn't understand all the subplots going on. It seemed like it just kept adding on and diverting from the main idea. But once it all came together it was just *chefs kiss*. It made it a true whodunit story.

I really loved the writing style. The use of articles and transcripts to provide exposition was really genius use for the characters and background. Highly recommend!

IN the interest of full disclosure, I received access to a digital proof of this book in exchange for an honest and thoughtful review.

With that being said, let's talk about Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight:

This book follows Cleo, the daughter of a lawyer (Katrina) who disappears under dubious circumstances right before Cleo is set to meet her at home for dinner. As we follow Cleo's search for her mother, we get chapters from Katrina's perspective in the time leading up to her disappearance. While Cleo hopes to learn what happened to her mother, she ends up learning more about her mother, other people in her life, and herself than she initially anticipated.

It's been a while since I've had a book in my hands that I literally couldn't put down. But I found myself at the end of this book today having lost 2 extra hours of time I hadn't accounted for, sucked into the storyline. McCreight's pacing is flawless, timing the reveals in Katrina's chapters with Cleo's discoveries in a way that doesn't feel forced or spoon-fed to the reader. Every new thing learned manages to keep you on your toes. As we encounter many characters with much to hide, you find yourself suspicious of everyone, and McCreight masterfully weaves the clues in such a way that even seasoned mystery-solvers might not discover the truth before the precise moment the author wants you to.

I'd also like to sing praises for McCreight's characterizations of all the players in this book. Each character feels complex and real, not a single one of them behaving in any way that ever feels out of character at any time. She truly knows her characters inside and out, and brings their personalities to life in a way that leaves you feeling as if these are living people she knows, and not ones she created with the purpose of telling a story.

While this is my first time reading a book by McCreight, it has certainly put her name high on my radar, and I have already added other books of hers to my TBR. If you like mysteries of any kind, like to be kept guessing, or need a book that feels fast-paced and brings your interest back into reading, I would highly recommend this book to you.

Overall Like Mother, Like Daughter was decent. Cleo and her mother have a difficult relationship. Cleo arrives at her mothers to find her missing and blood in the home.

The plot and set up is a little busy for my tastes. Multiple different time periods and a little too many scenarios to work through. Then the epilogue has to explain what happened. I think some of these things could be cleaned up.

But this was fast paced and an easy read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

There were way too many subplots going on in this book to keep anything straight. I felt like I had to pause and think through what was happening in the book because there was so much going on.

Thank you to the publisher for a netgalley.

I enjoyed the overall MAIN premise of this book. However, i felt the plot was a bit much. We go back 8 days before Kat disappeared, while following her daughter Cleo in the present.

For some reason we get therapist notes for Cleo, which to me added absolutely nothing to the story. Cleo was hard to deal with overall. For a girl in her early adulthood, she is like a petulant child who is never happy with anything at all.

I found Kat's story to be more interesting, even though again, the journal entries did not add anything to the story. Esp because we were already getting Kat's inner monologue. The journal entries could have been without if the inner monologue just dived a little deeper when she got the threatening texts.

I liked this book, but just fell a little short in the plot layout for me.

Kat and her college student daughter, Chloe, don't exactly see eye to eye. Kat is doing everything in her power to protect Chloe from trouble, Chloe is tired of her mom's constant judgement. After a big blowup, they haven't seen or spoken to each other in months. Then, Kat goes missing. As Chloe tries to figure out what happened to her mom, she realizes her mom ( and her dad) aren't who she thought they were, and her mom might be in big trouble. Told from both Kat and Chloe's perspective, this is a page turner with lots of suspense. I highly recommend.

This book doesn’t waste any time - the daughter finds her mom missing and we are off to solve the mystery.

Told in alternating points of view between the mother and the daughter, the reader learns about the tension between them for some time. The reader also learns more about the mother’s past and how that influenced her choices in the recent past.

There are some unreliable characters, but overall this book is a solid mystery within the mother-daughter relationship.

Thanks to @netgalley and @aaknopf providing the ARC.

#likemotherlikedaughter #kimberlymccreight #suspense #thrillerthursday

Unfortunately I had to DNF this one. I was hoping for a good thriller but as I started reading it, I felt lost. Normally I like multiple POVs and mix of present and past events but this one was just so confusing to me. It was hard to follow and understand what was going on.
Unfortunately this book was not for me.

Thank you Knopf and the author for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I was pulled in from the very beginning. Cleo, daughter of Kat, comes home to have "dinner" with her mom and finds her gone and pool of blood. They have a contentious relationship. As the story progresses and Cleo learns more about her mothers past she has a better understanding of why her mother is the way she is. This story had some twists and turns I didn't see coming, though I did suspect some of them.

A love story between a mother and daughter . Cleo uncovers secrets about her mother’s life that she never would have predicted .

This was a quick, enjoyable read. There were a bunch of twists. Some I figured out, some took me by surprise.

Not sure the book will stick with me, but it was a fun summer read. Not sure I'd recommend it to others though.

3.5 stars rounded to 4.

I received this book free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

This story is told through two different timelines. The present and the time leading up to the disappearance of one of the main characters.

I found myself trying to rush through the book because I needed to know what happened and I LOVED the main plot twist that is unveiled toward the end.

I give Like Mother, Like Daughter 4/5 stars.

I got this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Cleo and her mom are not on the best of terms. When he mom begs her to come over for dinner, she finally gives in, but when she arrives the house is a mess and her mother is nowhere to be seen. The cops want her to sit back and let them do their job, but Cleo can’t just sit there. She needs to find out what happened, and if her own choices have led to her mom’s disappearance.

Well damn, I wrote down so many quotes while reading this book! It seriously spoke to me so much! I was immediately drawn into the story and was right behind Cleo in trying to find her mom. There were several different storylines happening, but I loved how they all came together in the end. I also felt like Cleo’s dad was the worst and he was very close to the top of my suspect list! As we go back in time, I didn’t love Cleo, she was certainly a bit of a brat, but I grew to really like her as she tried to figure out what happened.

Thank you to @aaknopf for my gifted copy of this book!

I thought Like Mother, Like Daughter was a solid read. Like other Kimberly McCreight books I've read, the writing is solid. The characters are well-drawn and distinct, though I did find myself wondering some about motivations and the backstories of more minor characters. The structure of the book worked okay for me, though because there were so many "extra" features beyond the narrative, I wonder how the listening experience would be if I'd consumed this via audio. My major critique with the book would be that it is just a bit too much in terms of subplots. For me, there were just too many red herrings and though (I think) most of them were tied up by the end of the book, keeping track of everything and the loose ends was sometimes distracting.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight, The book starts with Chloe McHugh going to see her mom after not seeing her for a few months and then finding a bloody shoe, broken glass and her mom missing. Cloe and her mom Katrina has had a very tumultuous relationship. From the work her mom does at the law firm she works at to the way she was raised to life in general she can be very strict and controlling and Cloe is suffocating under all her mom‘s good intentions. Like most children whether adult or minors Cloe has made some very bad decisions but still doesn’t see why her mom feels the need to be so involved in her life this is why Cloe “hasn’t really spoke to her in months. After her mom goes missing Cloe will start to uncover things that cause her to look at not only her mom differently but her dad is well who she thought she was very close to. Throughout the book we follow other POV‘s including Katrina who everyone thinks is a patent lawyer but really she is a fixer for very influential people what her daughter also doesn’t know is Katrina and her husband Aiden have separated and are getting a divorce. This is why we also see Katrina when she starts to date and care about a guy named Doug who she is with when he gets a threatening text message and is soon dead due to a suspicious car accident. So when Katrina starts getting her own threatening text messages she at first doesn’t know who could know her secret by this point in the book we know Katrina grew up in an orphanage called Haven House and she was only allowed to be adopted at 14 by an eccentric millionaire due to questionable circumstances and this is the secret she wants to keep. Between her husband Aiden wanting her inheritance money to prolong the filming of his documentary to him cheating to close ex boyfriend and even Katrina‘s job there are many great suspects and the question is where is Katrina and is the person who wanted to harm her from her past or her present?#KnothPantheonVintage,#NetGalley, #KimberlyMcCreight, #LikeMother,LikeDaughter,

This book was such a wild ride. I was on the edge of my seat and couldn't turn the pages back. Think you have it all figured out? Nope think again. I loved how this book was told in Kat's pov leading up to her missing to while she was missing told in her daughter's pov. This book was a page turner and a fast read.
Thank you to the publisher for my net galley copy for my honest review.

You know that phrase "give them enough rope to hang themselves"? There is a huge pile of it in this book. Well, maybe it is better to say that there are a whole lotta ropes because the main character, Katherine, is gone and there are so many reasons and potential guilty parties. It is a big ol' knot of a twisty, turny story. I really enjoyed the strained relationship between Katherina and her daughter, Cleo, and the dual timelines. And I really loved hating the husband Adrian! This is a story guaranteed to keep you guessing until the end!

Cleo has been estranged from her mom Kat for a few months after Kat kept meddling in her relationship. Kat reaches out to Cleo to try to mend their relationship, but when Cleo comes by the house for dinner, she discovers her mom missing with dinner burning and a shoe and blood on the kitchen floor. What the hell happened to her mother? Cleo is determined to find out.

The story is told from Kat's POV in the past, and Cleo's POV present day as she tries to understand what may have happened to her mom. What she discovers is that Kat isn't at all who she thought she was - Kat is the 'fixer' at the law firm she works at, and there are a lot of people that aren't happy with her.

There are so many potential suspects in this one, I found it hard to put down. I kept trying to guess who could have done something to her. There are a lot of things in her past that could easily come back to haunt her. I love the way Cleo was so headstrong in finding out what happened. She hasn't made the best decisions in the past, and clearly isn't make the best ones now either.

It's an addictive read with secret after secret coming to light. It's not too much of a surprise ending, but it was still a great page-turner.