Cleo, a NYU student arrives late for dinner, despite her mother’s urging that she arrive quickly. When she does get home, she finds things burning in the kitchen, traces of blood and her mother missing. Cleo doesn’t know where to turn. She and her mother don’t get along very well as their personalities are very different. Unbeknownst to Cleo, her mother is not just a lawyer, she is actually a fixer. Their attempts to protect each other show the truth of their complex relationship. This gripping thriller will keep you riveted until the explosive ending!

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I went in blind, not sure what I would be getting. But this was definitely a very interesting story. Meet Cleo who is a student at NYU and when she comes home to meet her mother - her mother is nowhere to be found. You go back and forth with alternating POV's along with news articles and transcripts - which I love where there are extra layers like that. The story is also told with a combo of countdown of days before going missing. Lots of suspense build up. Thank you to NETGALLEY and Knopf for this eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Page turner for the first page!!! A missing mother, a defiant daughter and a sketchy husband…my idea of a perfect read!!!

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the chance to read and review this book!!!

Intense story with lots of twists and turns. this unpredictable story will capture you right away and keep you turning the pages to find out more! Wonderful complex characters make this a real page turner and a must read!

imagine coming home to find your mom gone, dinner burning and a bloody shoe in your house.
That was the reality for cleo, who finds that her mom is missing, she is the prime suspect, and her dad is a liar.
while cleo is searching for her mom, she learns of a deep dark secret and more about her rough childhood than she ever knew. But, is her childhood the connection to her disappearance?
Cleo has to find out what the connection is, before it’s too late.
And readers, you will NOT see the connection or twist coming!

I really enjoyed McCreight’s writing and this book was no different. It started off a bit slow, but by the end, I was on the edge of my seat. I thought some of the plot twists were a bit contrived, and I wasn’t thrilled by the ending, but the journey getting there was very good.

I think this author creates really well-embodied characters who have flaws and seem like real people. It’s probably my favorite thing about her books, she does a great job making you care about the characters. I tend to really not enjoy split timeslines in books, which this one has, but I didn’t mind it here because I actually found both prospectives equally interesting. This typically isn’t the case for me.

I liked the bit of mixed media that were added in. Definitely led to a bit more curiosity since the reader doesn’t always have the context for what we’re being shown until later. There were quite a number of things going on and I think dropping one or two may have made the plot a bit stronger, but overall I liked the trip I was taken on!

Will definitely look out for more from this author in the future!

Anyway, I just finished Like Mother, Like Daughter which was a wild psychological thriller about a mom who is missing after leaving behind a bloody shoe and the daughter trying to figure out what happened. The story flips back and forth between before and after the day the daughter found the mom’s bloody shoe, leaving little crumbs of hints along the way. So I will say that this one had me hooked because it was so fast-paced, so many possibilities and I love a little mixed media in my books. It was intense and twisted. But, with an asterisk because there was so much going on - so many side storylines to try and lead me astray, so many characters to keep track of. I was able to stay focused and keep it all sorted in my brain but I think because I read it on my kindle. I think audio could be hard with so many characters and storylines that all seemed so crucial to remember. So my recommendation is maybe not do audio for this one unless you can be hyper focused.

WOW! McCreight has written an excellent mystery/thriller in Like Mother, Like Daughter. This book was unputdownable! I absolutely loved it. The writing is excellent, the mystery is realistic… I actually feel like something like this probably happens a lot. I enjoyed the evolution of the mother-daughter relationship from their separate POVs. There are lots of secrets and red herrings that are maybe not absolutely necessary, but sometimes life does get really messy, I guess. Overall, I throughly enjoyed this!

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight was one of my favorite books of the month! I loved the story told from both mother and daughter perspective. I was sucked in! I never guessed the twists and turns. The hype for this book is well deserved!

This is my first Kimberly McCreight book, but will not be my last! I look forward to read more of her work in the future. Highly recommend Like Mother, Like Daughter to anyone looking for a fun thriller!

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book was simply un-putdownable! I read the whole thing in nearly one setting. The narrative was compulsive and the plot was an onion as I peeled back layers to get to the answer of "whodunit?". The length of the chapters, the alternating perspectives and timelines, and the interspersing of therapy transcripts and journal entries kept my interest as I turned the pages. The characters were all flawed but McCreight, per usual, highlights their redeemable qualities with appropriate care.

It was both frustrating and exciting to be sent on so many wild goose chases with red herrings throughout but a bit of it felt heavy-handed and unnecessary to the point of confusion at times. However, I do think this contributed to the page-turning nature of the novel. Kimberly McCreight has never failed me with one of her books and this is no different. Though not my favorite by her, this is the thriller of the summer that I will continue to recommend!

I love a good mystery and this was just that. I really liked this story. It was really good and entertaining. Cleo come home from college and finds the stove on and no sign of her mother. She tries to find out what happened to her.

I read once that this author considers her books to be "emotional suspense", which seems to be an excellent description for this novel. Wow! There is a lot going on in this book, with motivations and red herrings coming fast and hard. However, the author manages to keep the many threads from tangling too much (and does not tie up everything in too neat of a bow at the end, either). The many complications of relationships between mothers and daughters become clearer and clearer as we see Cleo in the present and Katrina in the past. Each complication just drew me in more to see both Kat's past and present situations through to the end.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book.

When Cleo arrives home, late as usual, she finds her mother missing. They haven't gotten along for some time, but her mother specifically asked her to come over tonight, and even offered to fix dinner. So, where is she? But, on second look, there is an abandoned shoe, one she recognizes as her mother's, and a LOT of blood on the kitchen counter and on the floor. SO, WHERE IS SHE?

As the hours pass, the mystery deepens, and Cleo finds that she knows little to nothing about her mother - her job, her parent's marriage, her mother's past, not much of anything. As she slowly finds pieces of her mother's life, she realizes that her mother is not the monster she has thought she was, and her father is not the hero he pretends to be.

This book was alternately confusing, horrifying, a little "what the heck is going on?", and ultimately a good story. I had to make myself keep going at the beginning, but I am glad I stuck with it. It did go off in a lot of directions, and some of them were not relevant to the main story, but a good red herring just adds to the mystery, right?

When Cleo’s mother Kat goes missing, she races to find out the truth of what happened. To do so, she has to explore both Kat’s past and current life.

There are a lot of stories within the story in this book and sometimes it felt like a lot of unpack. But this was a gripping, fast-paced book that really kept me guessing right to the last page.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Available July 30, 2024.

Overall, I think is a really solid thriller. I liked how the story flipped back and forth between Kat and Cleo's perspectives. I thought the reveal was handled well - I figured it out a little bit before the characters did and that's something I like in a thriller. McCreight set just enough clues for you to see the bigger picture. This was a fun thriller to read on vacation!

I can’t stress enough how much patience is needed to get thru this book. Took a long time to get going but It ended up really good. Listened to it on audio- was not a fan of the narrator that voiced Cleo. Mostly reading, not much acting. The older voice was very good.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the advanced copy. This was my first book by Kimberly McCreight. Like Mother, Like Daughter switched between the past and present and the perspective of Katrina and Cleo. Katrina is a lawyer who fixes problems for her clients. Cleo is Katrina’s daughter and a student at NYU. When Katrina goes missing, Cleo decides to look into her mother’s past and career to find her mother. I had a difficult time getting into the storyline. Once I got to around the 50% mark, I had an easier time. I did guess what the twist was as well. Overall it was an okay book that left me with a few questions at the end.

Although I struggled to like any of the characters, it was a good thriller. There were so many assumptions made by all the characters that drove them to make multiple mistakes and engage in ridiculous behavior. The mystery itself was intriguing enough to keep me reading. I’m normally not a fan of alternating POVs, but it didn’t detract from the story. The ending was a little out there and more anti-climatic than expected given all the tension to get there.

Thank you to NetGalley, Knopf, and Kimberly McCreight for the eARC.

Cleo, an NYU student, treats her dad like he’s her favorite pal while her mother, Katrina, has always been there for her throughout the years. And yet, Cleo feels like she’s never been good enough for her critical mother. Like many teenagers, she didn’t really see how valuable her mother was until something happened to her.

Cleo was supposed to have dinner with her but found blood on one of her mother’s shoes left behind and glass broken in the kitchen. Now Cleo had to put the pieces together and find her. Katrina, was a lawyer and while Cleo was searching for her, she came across various hidden secrets. While there was a detective on the case, Cleo was determined to find her mother without much concern for her safety. This kept me turning the pages.

There were dual POVs between Cleo and Katrina which worked well. The different layers of the plot made it compelling to find out more. It was full of twists and a sense that the clock was ticking. Cleo needed to be careful as she kept digging for clues. And yet, things just coincidentally occurred like someone showing up at the right time. I stayed up late to find out how everything would turn out.

McCreight knows how to pace a story. I liked the dual timelines - one half of the story told from Kat's perspective, leading up to the day she disappears, and the other half from Cleo's perspective, starting from the disappearance and moving forward in time. But this isn't just a mystery about what happened to Kat; it's also the story of a mother/daughter relationship, how misunderstandings and lack of communication can lead to problems and assumptions.

"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.

Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo . . ."

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor for the free ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed herein are my own.