Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my review copy!

I have previously read and enjoyed novels by Kimberly McCreight, and this may be my favorite! Relatable in some ways…definitely intriguing and hard to put down.

I definitely would recommend!

I've read a few Kimberly McCreight books in the past and so I knew what to expect (though I also know that a lot of reviewers apparently don't like McCreight's style of writing and characterization.) For me, I find her books are typically a pretty good look at different types of female relationships, usually mother/daughter relationships and how those relationships can be strained in various ways. Her characters are flawed but I feel as though her mysteries are tight.

This book took the idea of presenting us with the scene of a crime: Cleo discovers that her mom is missing. Then we start seeing flashbacks to her mom's past, followed by entries of Cleo investigating the disappearance in the "current time." I liked how everything was kind of woven together with journal entries, etc.

Personally I really liked the book and thought the mystery was overall pretty strong and compelling.

Like Mother, Like Daughter wasn't on my radar when I got it from NetGalley, but I am so glad that I found it.
Cleo is a college student with a tumultuous relationship with her mother. She comes home one night to find her mother missing. This story follows Cleo as she tries to find out what happened to her mother. One of the biggest determinants of if I will enjoy a thriller is a twist that takes me by surprise, and this book certainly did.
I'm looking forward to reading more from Kimberly McCreight.

A race against time style read that kept me interested from the first page to the last.

Told from the mother and daughter’s point of views, this alternating story deals with blackmail, a childhood in a group home, a cheating husband and all sorts of “good” stuff. Good stuff that us readers love about thrillers with tons of suspense intermingled. The plot was perfectly woven into the details with high and low points that kept the story flowing brilliantly.

Cleo shows up to her mom’s house a bit late so, when she walks into the house with dinner burning finding bloody shoes, she panics. Their relationship hasn’t been that wonderful lately. What happened and where is her Mom?

This book revealed the ugly truths of a mom and daughter combined to reveal a novel that I thoroughly enjoyed! This novel is a 4️⃣⭐️ read❗️

This what I would call a quick easy read. Definitely won't make you smarter but it will help you pass the time easily. I love the idea of a fixer, miss my Scandal days, so that added to the appeal of the book. Good pace, grabbed my interest from the beginning and held it until the very end. I would recommend to those looking for a quick modern day read.

I was blown away by this book, instantly hooked and needing to turn page after page!

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight centers around Cleo, a college student whose life is shaken when she finds her mother, Kat, missing. Due to ongoing conflict between Cleo and her mother, she grudgingly agrees to have dinner with her mother but when she gets home, she finds troubling clues—like her mother’s bloody shoe. Despite their conflicts, Cleo becomes determined to uncover the truth about her mother’s disappearance.
As she digs deeper, Cleo realizes she knows less about her mom and dad than she thought, discovering secrets about their past and revelations of their lives now.

The suspense was immediate and kept me enthralled from beginning to end! If you've not read this one yet, you're missing out!

Thank you to Netgalley, Kimberly McCreight, and Knoft for providing a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book pleasantly surprised me! It kept me on my toes. We have two different points of view and two different time lines. Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives home to meet with her mother Kay, whom she currently has an estranged relationship with. Kay is a well respected lawyer with a mysterious past. When Cleo walks in the home, she finds her mother’s bloody shoe and dinner burning in the kitchen.

Cleo’s point of view starts with the day her mother goes missing. Kat’s point of view is of the days prior to her going missing. Both women live complicated lives with secrets they hide from each other. This book takes you on quite the journey to character development, complicated relationships, and finding out what really happened to Kat.

Highly recommend reading this book!

This is the first book I’ve read by this author. This book felt slow to me and a bit convoluted. The story was fairly easy to follow even with the dual timelines, but there wasn’t enough meat to be invested in either really. The book was ok, but would be willing to try another from this author.

I feel like this book was trying to do too much and because of that, it was very congested. It was easy to lose the plot. The dual timeline switches rather frequently, making it difficult to become invested in either storyline. The ending seems far fetched and rushed. Overall a disappointment for me, but I think people that enjoy thrillers would still be entertained by reading it. Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced reader’s copy.

Another solid book by Kimberly McCreight. She does the domestic thriller quite well. If you don't mind a lot of jumping back and forth and switching points of view, you'll appreciate the way this mystery unfolds. It starts off with a college-aged Cleo coming home to find her mother, Kat, has gone missing with no explanation. The plot ensues with a lot of backstory and a lot of potential perpetrators. You have to pay close attention to who is speaking and when in order to follow the clues. It can get a bit confusing but keep reading. The ending is not what I expected, and I thought it was overall a little more "deep" than most thrillers. The message I found at the end was that mother-daughter relationships are extremely complex. As a mother with my own traumatic childhood, I also worry how I will influence my daughter's own identity. Some of the situations in the book were hard to read, but I was also validated by the fact that I am not the only one who struggles. I wouldn't recommend this to just anyone, but if you have enjoyed Mc Creight's other books, I think you'll like this too. Note: I would not listen to this on audio, due to the multiple POV's and letters, trial transcripts, and more.

Like Mother, Like Daughter
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Author: Kimberly McCreight

I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Knopf and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.

Synopsis: 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 . . .

My Thoughts: Cleo and her mother, Katrina, have been a bit estranged. Katrina has requested her daughter’s appearance for dinner and Cleo felt it was important to attend, so she reluctantly agrees to be there for dinner. When Cleo arrives at her childhood home, she finds the chicken burning, and no sign of her mother. Upon further inspection, she finds her mother’s bloody shoe under the couch. Kat is the essence of success, a successful corporate lawyer, raised a daughter, and happily married. Appearances can be deceiving. Kat is actually a “fixer” for her firm. The days before her disappearance, there were threats on multiple levels. Her soon to be ex husband making demands for money; her daughter may be back involved with a bad news guy; and a cover up from the most important client at the firm. To top it off, she is receiving anonymous messages that could be from her past…

The story is narrated by both Cleo and Kat with intercepting news articles and therapy sessions layered in through out the story. The story opens with the disappearance of Kat. Cleo’s chapters are after the disappearance, while Kat’s chapters are the days/hours leading up to the disappearance (starts at 8 days before the disappearance). The characters were well developed with depth, mystery, intriguing, and creative. The author’s writing style was complex, multifaceted, twisty, suspenseful, and just brilliant. The author has a masterful way of grabbing your attention, creating intense emotional turmoil and keeping you invested the very end. The author really nails the love/hate relationship between mother and daughter, and the intense angst that follows. The pacing and flow of the character build up matches the intensity of the plot being delivered in twists with an ending that is just perfection.

This story was an enjoyable read. The author coins it as an emotional suspense novel, which I completely agree. The story offers many suspects and remains unpredictable until the end. It has all of the elements of a good thriller, it is gripping, suspenseful, twisty, unpredictable, and captivating. The chapters are labeled well and following along was not an issue. I have enjoyed McCreight’s prior works and this one did not disappoint. I highly recommend picking up today, available in physical, kindle, and audio.

This book started out so great! Interesting story line that made me want to figure out what happened to the Mom. I loved the back and forth between Mom and Daughter. After about 50% I started to lose interest but kept going. It was worth sticking out for the end!

I've really enjoyed all of Kimberly McCreight's other books, and this one was no different in enjoyment level. I really enjoy how she tells her stories in both past and present. It makes for a fun reading experience.

This book is an absolute delight. With well-constructed characters and perfectly tense execution, this book pulls you in from the very beginning. McCreight is a masterful storyteller, with multiple twisty plots rolled in. Is it the pharmaceutical company covering their bases, a blast from the main characters past or the husband who desperately needs money. You'll keep reading as she dangles little carrots along the way to the surprising ending. I will read everything Kimberly McCreight writes. Fantastic!

Another enjoyable thriller by Kimberly McCreight! At the start of this book, college student Cleo comes home to her parents’ brownstone only to find a pool of blood, her mom’s shoe, and her mom missing. The book alternates between Cleo investigating in the following dates, and flashbacks to her mom Katrina in the week leading up to her disappearance. Secrets and potential suspects abound in both timelines.

I have read all of McCreight’s adult books, and this one just might be my favorite. I can always count on her books for page-turning entertainment, and unlike a lot of thrillers, this one didn’t annoy me by going off the rails towards the end. If you’ve never read her books, I’d say if you’re a fan of Lisa Jewell, I think you’d like this one too!

I received this ebook from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion and review.

I’m going to be honest, I STRUGGLED through this one. I didn’t feel like the plot was very enjoyable and it was unbelievably slow. Nothing made much sense to me until we got closer to the end of the book, and by the time we got there I had completely lost interest.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was a highly anticipated thriller, yet sadly it fell a little short for me. There was so much going on, yet nothing was really happening. I had a really hard time relating to Chloe, who's mother has gone missing. She truly is a spoiled, whiny college student who sounds like she was stunted in her maturity somewhere around the age of 15. Her mother, Katrina, was actually more relatable to me and I wish we could have gotten more of her in the story instead.
Needless to say I struggled through this. I had high hopes but it just wasn't for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for this arc in return for my honest opinion.

Pub Date: 30 July 2024

I really liked this twisty thriller. It was tense and kept you engaged throughout. I definitely recommend it.

Like Mother, Like Daughter features a daughter who attempts to figure out her mother's life after she goes missing. When Cleo comes for dinner at her childhood home, she does not expect to find burning food, along with her mom's blood shoe under the couch. Cleo has the perfect picture of her mom as a successful corporate lawyer with her life in order, but she is about to learn that it is far from the truth.
Kat has a job as a fixer within her law firm. A dangerous background thought her how to pay attention under pressure to protect herself. With threats against her growing in the days leading up to her disappearance, Cleo must figure out the secrets in her mom's life to save her.

Cleo and her mother, Katrina, did not have the best of relationships. Still, when Katrina has Cleo return to her childhood home for dinner so they can talk, she is alarmed when she comes home to food burning and her mother nowhere to be seen. However, she finds her mother's bloody shoe. Cleo immediately goes to her neighbor's house where they call the police and her father soon arrives. A detective starts to investigate however, Cleo decides to start investigating starting with her mother's computer.
Katrina is known as the fixer for a big law firm, so Cleo starts looking at her mother's dating profile and pulling threads leading her down the road of discovery. Soon she realizes that she does not know her mother as well as she thought, and she knows her father less. While following different leads she discovers that many people would have the motive to hurt her mother including her father, as the secrets come out her life is not as picture-perfect as she imagined!
Wow! This one had me on the edge of my seat and everyone has secrets that they do not want someone else to reveal! This book was so good and the ending is not what I expected but it was worth the read! I loved the ending and how everything came together!
Thank you Netgalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the extraordinary opportunity to read and review this one! It was a treat!