I have read every book by Kimberly McCreight and have loved each one. This one did not disappoint. The story was well written and I found it hard to put down for real life. I just wanted to keep reading.

Like Mother,
This was an enjoyable mystery. I had my suspicions 1/2 way into the book but was not 100% sure as there were so many suspects. This story center around Cleo and her mother Kat who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. The people around her who are friends, family and others exhibit suspicious behavior and seem to be hiding information from her. We follow along as she tries to find out what has happened to her mother. We also have the POV of her mother, Kat, who narrates the story of what has come before the time she went missing. We get a scare towards the end and a little unsolved monetary mystery that goes unresolved. All in all a good suspense reading.
Thank-you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own and I encourage everyone who reads this book to share their views.

Great and quick read. I found myself thinking I had figured out the twist so many times but I was so wrong! Strongly developed characters and the title stayed in the back of my mind throughout my read wondering how exactly mother was like daughter. Look forward to reading more from McCreight.

The relationship between mothers and daughters can be so complicated, especially when the mother had so many secrets. In Kimberly McCreight’s newest book she does an amazing job of showing just how tricky that relationship can get, especially when the mother disappears and the daughter really doesn’t know any of her mother’s secrets. I loved how flawed all the characters were and how complex the relationships between almost all the characters turned out to be. This book was very enjoyable to read and kept me turning the page to find out what happened.
Thank you to Netgalley and to the publishers for allowing me to read this advanced copy.

This one hooked me in the beginning, lost me for about 2-3 chapters in the middle-ish, and then hooked me back and didn't let go.

I really enjoyed the back and forth with the daughter's story going from the day she was missing onwards, and the mother story going from X days before down to 1 day before missing - it really kept the tension going as you learned things in the present day that you knew the mother wouldn't have known when she was going through her part in the story.

I thought the characters were drawn really well and acted in believable (although occasionally scummy) ways, and really agree with other reviews I've seen that the highlight of the book is the relationship between mothers and daughters.

Will definitely be reading more from Kimberly McCreight!

(Also, this gave me Gillian McAllister vibes - that adult child / parent dynamic in a thriller setting!)

Overall Rating: ★★★★★ / 4.25

Rating each element of the book out of 5★
Characters ★★★★
Atmosphere ★★★
Writing ★★★★
Plot ★★★★
Intrigue ★★★★★
Logic ★★★★
Enjoyment ★★★
Pacing ★★★
Dialogue ★★★★

★ did not like / ★★ it was okay / ★★★ liked it / ★★★★ really liked it / ★★★★★ loved it

ARC REVIEW

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a thriller that shows you exactly what some mothers will go through to protect their children. It shows you how strong the bond really is even though you may not always see it.

The plot had potential and I love the authors ideas, I just think it lacked. It took awhile for me to get into and the characters were all annoying. I do like how it included the journal entries and therapy transcripts!

Thank you @netgalley for my eARC in exchange for my honest review!

Pub date is July 30, 2024

I was unable to finish this book and thus will not be posting a full review on my blog. I didn't like this from the beginning -- seemed problematic and formulaic at the same time. Thank you for the opportunity.

I tend to have a hard time when a book comes out and smacks you in the face from the get-go, and then just slows to a crawl. For me, this book lost its momentum. With the alternating POVs and the back and forth timeline...it just felt forced.

Thank you to Knopf, Kimberly McCreight, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is good solid story of suspense. It starts off with a bang when Cleo ( the daughter) is summoned home to have dinner with her mother, Kat. Their relationship has been strained and Kat is hoping to change that with a dinner. However, when Cleo arrives home, she finds the house a mess, blood on the floor and her mom is missing. As the police start their investigation Cleo finds that her mother has been hiding many secrets. Cleo also comes to find that she is more like her mother than she thought.

This story is told from alternating POV, between Kat and Cleo. The alternating viewpoints were okay, but I didn't care for the non-linear time lime that the story was told in. It was at times confusing and sometimes distracting to the story.

. The author was very good at developing the "love/hate" dynamic between mother and daughter. There were many suspects throughout that keep the reader guessing. While the epilogue did wrap up most of the storylines, I did feel like the author left out 1 that was not brought to a conclusion.

Overall I thought this was a good "emotional" suspense story and I would recommend it.

I’ve been hit or miss with Kimberly’s books and when this one started out really strong for me, I thought I’d be adding it to my favorite category. But, then the pacing of the book slowed down and I felt like there were a lot of things thrown in to fill space to keep the story going.

There were some twists at the end that were slightly surprising, but I felt like they were rushed and I would’ve liked more time devoted to them, then storylines that were played up so much in the middle to be barely wrapped up at the end.

I really enjoy Kimberly McCreight. This was a good mystery and a fast read with quick alternating chapters, but it was trying to do tooooo much. The mom (who has checkered past and some secrets at work too) goes missing with signs of foul play and the somewhat estranged college aged daughter must find out what happened. There ended up being 5 mostly unrelated big possibilities as to whodunnit and IMO, it was the most obvious one who did. I also guessed the big “plot twist” pretty early on.

A fast, suspenseful book that kept me guessing until the end! I can’t believe this is my first McCreight novel. The writing is so good and the plot compelling. Cleo’s and Kat’s relationship was so well nuanced, such a realistic portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship. It made this so much more than just a mystery. And the mystery itself. I kept thinking I knew all the answers, and then something else would happen and I’d find myself rethinking everything. I loved all the characters (how they were written, not their personalities- here’s looking at you Aiden) and loved that everything in the book felt intentional.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf publishing for letting me read an ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter. This was a good book with 2 person POV of Mother before she disappears and Daughter after finding out her mother is missing. Mother and Daughter do not have a good relationship. The story kept me interested until the ending when I felt like it was a little anticlimactic.

I read this is one day because it was that good! Mother an daughter don’t really get along, but when mom goes missing, she starts digging to find her. Told from the perspective of the mom both in her past and the days leading up to her disappearance, but also told from the perspective of her daughter when she finds her mother is missing. Very well constructed and the ending was crazy!

Kimberly McCreight’s “Like Mother, Like Daughter” is an incredibly engaging thriller that explores a fraught mother-daughter relationship, made more tenuous by the disappearance of the mother and the attempts of her estranged college age daughter to find her. I truly liked the unique plot structure which is derived from their alternating POVs: mom’s (Kat) is prior to her disappearance; the daughter’s (Cleo) starts after her discovery of a bloody shoe and burning food in the oven at her mother’s house. The women’s stories are also interspersed with Kat’s journal entries from 1993 (discovered by Cleo), when she was younger than Cleo and living in a sketchy group home, and transcripts of Cleo’s sessions with a therapist. Kat has since transformed into a lawyer and a “fixer” for her powerful firm. Someone is trying to blackmail her and threaten Chloe. But is it related to her current work assignment or is it a voice from her hidden past?

As the storylines converge, we get to know both Kat and Cleo, who, yes, are both intelligent, stubborn, risk-taking and far from perfect, but very realistic characters. 5 stars!

Literary Pet Peeve Checklist:
Green Eyes (only 2% of the real world, yet it seems like 90% of all fictional females): YES Both mother and daughter have eyes that shift from blue to green to gray depending on the light.
Horticultural Faux Pas (plants out of season or growing zones, like daffodils in autumn or bougainvillea in Alaska): NO

Thank you to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor and NetGalley for a free advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review!

Cleo and Katrina never had a good relationship.

Cleo always fought with her mother.

Now that Katrina has gone missing, Cleo decides to investigate. She finds things out about her mother that she never knew.

We follow the characters as they go back-and-forth before and after the disappearance.

I honestly have to say LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER was VERY difficult to follow, and I was not anxious at all to get back to reading this book.

Along with that, there was not one character that I liked.

I hope this book works out better for you. 3/5

Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

This book is fast paced and beautifully laid out with viewpoints both from the daughter and from the mother. The twists and turns found within these pages will have readers entranced from page one. I love books like this that help a child realize their parents as humans themselves with lives that they don’t always see or want to recognize. This is the perfect summer read for someone looking for a mystery. I can’t wait to recommend it.
Thank you so much to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this title.

Hooked from the first page. This Mother/Daughter relationship is just the tip of the iceberg in the fast paced thriller full of emotion and turmoil. Cleo and Kat have a difficult relationship, as do many mothers and daughters, but when Kat goes missing Cleo discovers that her mother has kept many secrets from her - and they may be deadly.

Wow! This book really hooked me in and took me on an intense nail biting journey.

I loved the format this was written in. The daughter’s point of view is written from the moment a bloody shoe is discovered while the mother's point of view is everything that happened leading up to that discovery. This really kept me on the edge waiting for the two points to converge. Filled with one twist after another, forcing me to read long past my normal bedtime, I never figured out the answer before the author revealed it, making this a winner for me.

Cleo and her mother Kat have had a rocky relationship for a while now, but Cleo agrees to come to see her mother and have dinner at her family’s Brooklyn home. Cleo arrives a little bit late, but her mother isn’t there - but there is food burning in the oven, a broken wine glass and one of her mother’s shoes with blood on it. As the police arrive and an investigation begins, Cleo finds out more and more things about her mother that she knew nothing about. Cleo is forced to face some harsh truths she uncovers about her father and her mother - how will she deal with these new insights. The book alternates between chapters from Cleo and Kat’s POVs, sometimes going to past times in the process. This was a very intriguing story that was hard to put down. I found the mother-daughter relationship especially fascinating and how even though they’ve been estranged they want to protect one another at all costs. I recommend this book, it’s a good emotional thriller and a great look into relationships. I give the book 4 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this digital ARC in exchange for my honest review. The book is set to be published on July 30, 2024.