This was a great read! Kat had a traumatic past and is determined to be the best mom to Cleo. Then her marriage begins to unravel, work is beyond stressful, and then she disappears. Despite being estranged, Cleo is on a mission to find her mom. Lots of twists and turns make this an exciting story.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was a page turner from beginning to end and kept me guessing till the very last page. The book is about a daughter Cleo who has to uncover her mothers secret life after her mom's disappearance. This was very well written with great characters and twists and turns. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend this to any reader but especially to readers who love a good thriller. Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for this ARC read in exchange of my honest review of Like Mother, Like Daughter.

A domestic drama built around a mystery when a mother goes missing is at the core of Like Mother, Like Daughter. When Cleo arrives home to find her mother, Kat, missing with spatters of blood and a single shoe visible, the race is on not only to find her but to discover who her mother is as a person.
The mystery of the missing mom is complicated by Kat's past, her current job, her dissolving relationship with her husband, and even the relationships of Cleo could be the reason for the disappearance.
Like Mother, Like Daughter is a twofer. The reader gets a good crime story/mystery along with a deeper backstory of the thorny relationships that occur between mother and daughter. I especially enjoyed watching Cleo starting to view her mother as more of a person, flawed but fully developed. It was also a joy to see a woman in a position of power that doesn't abdicate it when things get tough, but makes tough decisions. There is a great female supporting cast, as well.

On the the other hand, the flaw, if there is one, is the current crime portion of the story gets a bit derailed with so much focus on the past including the transcripts of therapy.

Author McCreight is detailed in her writing style which builds a multi-layered reading experience. There is always more to it than the mystery at hand.

Thank you to Aaknopf for access to an early copy via Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

This book and the characters are so complicated. Like Mother, Like Daughter is an exploration of the mother/daughter relationship that manages to be a wonderful thriller. There's a lot going on in this book, which makes it difficult to figure out how everything is related until the very end.

Although the book was entertaining, the last 15 percent was SO GOOD!

Cleo is a bratty character that you'll love to hate.

Thanks for the advance review copy.

Mother daughter relationships are some of the most complicated relationships there is. It’s hard to imagine your mom living a life before you were born. Motherhood changes people, so who was your mom before motherhood. This is what Cleo is coming to terms with. She had a strained relationship with her mother Katrina. However she is finding her mother is not who she thought. Nonetheless she will do anything to find her and get the answers. This was a page turner and I couldn’t wait to find out the results.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC of this book!

I read this in one day because I LOVED this one!!! 🤪🤩 There was tension, suspense, mystery, twists, all I could ask for from a thriller book! The character development was fantastic, as well. This progressed at the perfect pace and kept me guessing without making me feel so in the dark that I got frustrated.

Cleo McHugh is a 20-year-old student at NYU. One night, she is going home for dinner with her estranged mother, Katrina. When she gets there, she finds food burnt in the oven, glasses on the counter, and a pool of blood on the ground with her mother no where in sight. Cleo dives head-first into uncovering this mystery, for better or worse, on her own. Officer Wilson has been assigned the case and Cleo works with her as it best fits in her plan to uncover what happened to her mother (because, of course she knows best as we all did—she’s 20 haha).

There are suspects getting thrown at you everywhere and it just kept me wholly engaged the entire time. Every character was fleshed out just the right amount and I really came to love both Cleo and Katrina, even though I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about either one in the beginning, honestly. This was the first Kimberley McCreight book but it certainly isn’t going to be my last!!

Unfortunately I have tried to read and review this novel multiple times. I keep getting to about 15-20% and just want to put it down. I don’t feel appropriate rating due to not getting far enough in to form an opinion. I just don’t think it’s for me! My apologies!

This story's tension didn't let up from beginning to end. The characters, especially main characters Kat and Cleo, are fully-fleshed, and the alternating POV add suspense to the action. The novel held my interest all the way to the climax and resolution, and even though I guessed the identity of the guilty party before that, it didn't detract from the nail-biting suspense as the villain's plot unraveled. The pacing of the mystery, as the truth is gradually revealed through past and present time frames, is handled beautifully, and the relationships amongst the various characters ring true. This is the first book I've read by Kimberly McCreight, and I will definitely look for more from this author!

This was a great cinematic thriller from start to finish. It is a missing person thriller, with so much depth/theming that is so engaging . Katerina has gone missing, she is a “fixer”at a major corporate law firm. There are so many suspects in her disappearance, characters that are so nuanced and imperfect , yet all have reasons to be a suspect. She has a strained relationship with her 20-year-old daughter, Cleo. The point of view goes back-and-forth between Cleo and Katerina, and I could relate so much to the mother daughter dynamic, in both Cleo and Katerina’s point of view. Cleo is a student at NYU, she hasn’t made the best decisions with relationships in the past. She thinks that her mother is very controlling and hypocritical. Katerina may have overreacted slightly when Cleo started to express herself as a teenager, which damaged the relationship. The way that Katrina tries to uncover truth, and to fix things for her clients, and to spy on Cleo, Cleo does the same in searching for her mother. Hence the title, like mother like daughter. It was so cleverly woven together. Although I did have a suspicion about the biggest twist at the end, getting there was so enjoyable that I didn’t mind not being completely surprised by the twist. I really grew to love the characters, and to really hear their voices in my head. This is my first time reading this author, but I will definitely go back and read her previous works. i

While occasionally entertaining, this book was too needlessly convoluted to be satisfying. There was way too much going on at any given moment, both in terms of excess plots and characters and structure; the interstitial chapters of emails, texts, newspaper articles, journal entries, and transcripts were unnecessary and detracted from the urgency of the story. Because of this and the alternating POV, I often had trouble keeping character names straight and remembering what had happened in pervious chapters.

Overall, this is a relatively simple story that would be at home on Lifetime with all of its obvious red herrings and moustache-twirling bad guys.

Kimberly's writing style is as unique as her stories. This book may be my new favorite of her work. I loved the strained dynamic between mother and daughter and the family secrets that were always simmering under the surface. This book will no doubt be a bestseller!!

This was a captivating book that kept me guessing until the very end.
The characters were well developed and the book flowed nicely

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.

very slow burn and hard to get into for me
Entire plot is based on coincidences and requires disbelief on behalf of the reader - all these terrible things happen at the same time

I love Kimberly McCreight’s two other novels, and I really enjoyed this one as well.

It starts off with Cleo, a student at NYU, discovering her uptight lawyer, mother missing from her home.

Told in 2 POV’s past and present, Cleo and her mother, Kat.

This story involved complex mother/daughter relationship, adultery, murder … what else could you want?

Those fans of Kimberly’s earlier work will enjoy this one as well!

Thank you for my ARC.

Love a missing person mystery and this one felt so raw and alive. Loved the twists and turns and the writing was lovely.

McCreight has written some bang up thrillers. Unfortunately this one missed the mark for me. I picked it up a couple times then set it down only to have to start from the beginning when I came back to it. When I was finally able to become immersed in the story, I appreciated the character development, especially of Cleo. We get to watch her strained relationship with her mother unfold into a realization that I think most women come to as adults in relationship with our mothers.

I love books about mother daughter relationships i just like to see how authors write about them. Cleo comes home from college and finds that her mother is missing definitely gets you hooked from page one.

While Cleo is trying to figure out what happened to her mom since she is not close with her, soon realizes more about her mom than she knew. Dual POV

I feel the story keeps you engaged but not a put downable book. Was ok read for me.

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read and review.

Cleo's mother is missing, and there are plenty of suspects as Cleo tries to discover what happened.

A suspenseful page turner that will keep you guessing until the very end.

4 stars

Book Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Author: Kimberly McCreight
Publisher: Knoph, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor/ Knoph
Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Woman’s Fiction
Pub Date: July 9, 2024
My Rating 3.2 Stars
Pages: 320

Story starts when Katrina- the mother invites Cleo- the daughter a student at NYU, to dinner. Since Katrina and Cleo have not had the best relationship- actually the two have been at odds for years; Cleo senses that this dinner invite is important.

When Cleo arrives at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds dinner burning as the smoke alarm goes off. Where is her mother? – She finds her mother’s bloody shoe.
She calls her father and the police, as her mother is missing and likely injured.

The story goes back and forth between two timelines.
As Cleo searches for her mother, she discovers secrets, she realizes her mother might be involved with the wrong people and she being missing just might be connected.

The more involved this story, the less I liked it. I found it wasn’t working for me.
Perhaps my high expectation had something to do with my feelings.

I hung in there as I so enjoyed the Ms. McCreight’s novels.
I did like the ending.

This is my sixth Kimberley McCreight book. I became a fan back in 2013 when "Reconstructing Amelia" was selected for discussion in my Book Club. Everyone enjoyed it!
I also really enjoyed " Where They Found Her;" as well as The Outliers Series Books # 1 & 2.

Kimberly McCreight writes that this novel was the most personal book she has ever written.

She tells us ~ As a mother myself, I wanted to write a novel not only about the thorny relationship all mothers and daughters contend with as they come of age, but also about how challenging this relationship can be when combined with a mother’s own difficult past.


Thank You NetGalley and Knoph, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor/ Knoph for this early eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled: July 9, 2024.