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.

Wow, my mind is still spinning after finishing the mystery thriller Like Mother, Like Daughter by KimberlyMcCreight! I have previously enjoyed other books from McCreught, including Reconstructing Amelia, and this one did not disappoint!

This book centers on the disappearance of Kat with the viewpoint of Kat leading up to the event and of her daughter, Cleo, over the time after the disappearance. More mysteries arise and the list of suspects is long and ever-changing. This had me guessing til the end. I can’t say much more without including spoilers.

On a recent flight, the flight attendant said she had to ask what I was reading because my expressions were so dramatic, she knew it had to be good. It absolutely was! Highly recommend!!

Like Mother, Like Daughter did not meet my expectations. At times I found myself bored with the story and had to force myself to finish. I did not hate it though, it just wasn't for me. Thank You NetGalley and Knopf For this advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
Kimberly McCreight

McCreight has been honing her skills and you can tell by her latest, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER that she still has a lot to say about women and the many masks they put on, even when alone, with only a mirror as witness.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER stars mother, Kat, and daughter, Cleo. Cleo arrives at her mother’s house to find it deserted. As if she up and vanished. This is very unlike her type-A mother and immediately Cleo is worried.

Cleo starts to look into her mother’s absence right away and as she starts to uncover truths about her mom she finds that there is a lot she doesn’t know about the woman she calls mom.

Will she solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance before it’s too late? Or will her mother forever be lost to her regardless of where she is?

I have a long-sorted past with Kimberly. She wrote a revolutionary book in 2015 called WHERE THEY FOUND HER. It was unlike anything I had read before that. A combination of biting commentary and a shocking storyline, I was immediately a fan. Since then, I haven’t had much luck with her books until LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER.

There is an immediate honesty to the writing. It’s confessional-like. Like people are spilling their insincerities and indiscretions unfiltered and without the benefit of shame or knowing better to save face. It’s not about your fake online persona or the person you play at work. It’s about who you are when you think no one is looking, no one cares, and no one is watching.

But of course, someone always is.

Thanks to Netgalley, Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf for the advanced copy!

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER…⭐⭐⭐

Like Mother Like Daughter is a fabulous psychological thriller told in alternating points of view between the mother who is missing and the daughter. The quick pacing and the twists and turns had me staying up to see how it ended. This is my first book from Kimberly McCreight, but it won't be my last.

A tale of the unexpected similarities between mother and daughter in this psychological thriller. multiple timelines and narrators add a great deal of suspense. A quick, entertaining read by one of my favorite authors.

I hadn’t read a good domestic thriller in a long time so I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It was told from the point of view of the mother, Katrina and the daughter, Cleo. Katrina is missing and it looks like foul play. Her point of view goes back in time and works forward to the incident. Cleo works hard to figure out what happened and in the process comes to realize that her mother has always been there for her even when she thought otherwise. There were plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing. Overall this was a very good read.

Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced copy!

This was a fun read, the story goes back and forth between the mother (who is missing) and the daughter who is looking for her. It' kept me going and I didn't really want to put it down so the pacing was good and the twists were also pretty good.

My main issue with this book was the style of the writing. I found myself confused multiple times and had to go back a few pages to figure out what was going on - sometimes the characters would go somewhere and then think about things that happened in the past (for a few pages) and then would return to where they were, which was kind of hard to follow at times.

This was also an uncorrected copy that I read and I did notice quite a few errors (spelling, sentence structure) and continuity issues as well. For instance in one example, a detective sits next to Chloe and then on the next page, she sits down again without there being any mention of her getting up. Small, but noticeable when you are picturing things in your mind as you are reading.

The ending was slightly unsatisfying as you find there are multiple things happening that kind of all wrap up neatly at the same time - some of which were a little deflating.
But overall, it was a decently good thriller, my first from this author and I would read more!
Final overall rating 3.5!

I wanted more suspense from Like Mother, Like Daughter but the story fell short. The mystery of what happened to fixer attorney Kat seemed a little far-fetched and there were too many distractions (red herrings). I did enjoy seeing how Cleo’s feelings transitioned and changed for her mother and father. The surprise twist at the end seemed a little too icky. The story was a fast-paced, quick read.

A psychological thriller that leaves you dazed and speechless.

Two timelines, told from both the mother and daughters perspective - this novel perfectly weaves the story together and has you constantly turning the page.

Highly recommend!

✔️ SLOW burn
✔️ Dual POVs
✔️ Dual timelines

Epitome of a slow burn. If that’s your jam, you may enjoy this read. Ultimately, while I had a constant debate of wanting to quit this read it was due to the pace and not necessarily as a result of a poorly outlined plot.

I felt the story was executed well in that there were no unanswered questions. Some elements were predictable and I decidedly didn't score this higher as the "twists" didn't confound me.

Thank you #NetGalley for an arc of #LikeMotherLikeDaughter in exchange for an honest review.

I was sucked into the world of Cleo and her mom, Kat, right from the very beginning. Kat is missing and Cleo is trying to figure out what happened to her.

There are times when reading thrillers I feel like the end builds without much drama and then ends with this crazy “hostage” type scene. This book is quite the opposite - and I loved it even more for this. The entire book builds in dramatic fashion right up until the very end, without an over dramatic finale. The constant tension building is what pulled me in and kept me reading.

Many pieces work together in this story - told from two perspectives. A daughter feeling overprotected by her mother, but learning that her mother holds secrets that crafted her style of parenting. In the end, all secrets are revealed.