While I enjoyed this book, I found myself lost on what was going on multiple times. There seems to be a lot going on and it’s hard to keep up. I felt that some characters lacked depth. However, it was a good read and interesting.

Thank you #Netgalley for the advanced copy!

Wow! This one really keeps you on your toes! Cleo, the daughter of Kat has her own secrets and life while away at college. Kat, is secretly separated from her husband and has a highly risky and private job/secret life. We watch as each of these women try to better understand each other and ultimately are trying to protect each other in their own ways. Was shocked by the end with who was connected to who!

It seems like everyone I know who has read this book has loved it, so this will be an outlying review. I had to start reading it twice before I could get into it, and though the story was fine, nothing in this book really grabbed me or made me immersed in the plot.

The book starts with our mother, Katrina, going missing. Her daughter, Cleo, comes home one night to find her mother gone; only a broken glass and bloody shoe remain. Kat had been having a rough time of it lately. She and Cleo’s father, Aidan, are getting divorced, Cleo is dating a drug dealer, and the new man she has been sleeping with, Doug, has just died in a car crash. Do any of these things have to do with her disappearance?

The rest of the book is about finding Katrina, and about a pharmaceutical company hiding knowledge about birth defects in one of their drugs. Unfortunately, I found most of the characters to be cliche, and I didn’t feel anything for any of them. The parts about “the past” almost felt forced into the story, even though they were the parts that connected things to the present.

There’s nothing wrong with the book, or bad about the plot - it just didn’t work for me, as I found it all to be a bit boring, dry and tedious. The twists weren’t very shocking, and the ending was slightly anti-climactic. Again though, it looks like my opinion is in the minority on this one! You may love it, but I’m giving this one an average 2.5 stars, rounded up.

I love a good thriller, and this one did not disappoint! It was un-putdownable! This was the first book I've read by this author, but it wont be the last.

This suspenseful read was an emotional roller coaster ride, and a fast-paced, page-turner from start to finish. Mother and daughter had been at odds with each other when threatening things started happening. Fictional accounts and lies went on the wayward while secrets and truth started to reveal themselves. Thank you, NetGalley, and the publisher for the ARC.

I couldn't put this one down! It was an engrossing domestic thriller. I do think it could have used more closure at the end of the book and that is why it was 3.5 rounded up.

So many lies, how do you know who to trust? It’s hard to find a thriller that incorporates multiple suspects and keeps you guessing. Mother daughter resentment and relationship drama, this book has it all! This is my first book by this author, but it won’t be my last!!

Recommend preordering this one if you love mystery. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC. Available August 2024.

A gripping domestic thriller “Like Mother, Like Daughter” by Kimberly McCreight. When NYU student, Cleo, arrives late for dinner at her Brooklyn home , she finds food in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. This prompts her to call the police and her dad, as her mother is missing and likely injured.

Kat’s disappearance shows many revelations about her double life. Out comes decades of misunderstanding and resentment between Kat and Cleo.

The story begins with Cleo discovering her mother Kat has gone missing. It’s told from the viewpoint of Kat from several days before her disappearance and Cleo in the days that follow Kat’s disappearance.

The writing was a bit dry and not super captivating. There were too many storylines that really had to be stretched to tie in together and the twists were a bit far fetched.

The development of the mother-daughter relationship was great and Cleo learned so much about her mother and what she has gone through.

Overall I give this book 3.5 stars. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

3.5 rounded up because I couldn’t put it down but the ending was just missing a lot of major plot point closures. What happens with Aiden and the stolen money? What about Silas and Haven House? Jules got so much “we love her here” but she just felt like such a figment of imagination. You know she loves her daughter but I felt like I didn’t know her daughter was sick until conveniently at the end? Just a few ends to tie up if the book could’ve been a teeny bit longer

US pub date: 7/9/24
Genre: thriller/suspense
Quick summary: Wild child Cleo discovers her straight-laced lawyer mother Kat is missing - can she untangle Kat's latest case to find out where she's gone?

I really love books about mother-daughter relationships - it's always interesting to see how the perceptions each one of the pair has both fit and differ from reality. And wow did Cleo have a lot to learn about Kat! I liked that I didn't know where the story was going, but I did feel like there were a few too many plot lines/characters to keep straight. RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA is my favorite book by McCreight, and I'll continue to read her work.

Thank you to Knopf for providing an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The relationship between mothers and daughters can sometimes be difficult, but when the mother and daughter are both stubborn and smart, it can be like oil and water. Katrina loves her college age daughter Cleo very much, but she admits to be over-protective, stemming for her own childhood tossed between foster homes and a brutal children's home. Cleo know she isn't making the best choices, but feels her mother won't give her the room to breathe. One evening Cleo agrees to come home (she is a student at NYU) for dinner with her mother only to find her mother missing with blood on the floor, dinner burning on the stove, and one shoe left behind. This is how this intense mystery starts and in chapters alternating between the two women, we find out clues as to where and what may have happened to Katrina.

Katrina's part is told by relating what is going on in her life from a week or so before her disappearance and the entries are marked five, days before, four days etc. Katrina is a lawyer and works for a high powered law firm as a fixer, helping clients get out of unsavory entanglements. She also is currently separated from her husband a documentary film maker who is cheating on her and also wants the money she inherited from the foster mother who finally adopted Katrina when she was fourteen. Daughter Cleo doesn't know these things about her mother and is hung up her mother threatening Cleo's former boyfriend Kyle, a drug dealer.

After reading a few books with unlikable characters, I was happy to find I really liked both Katrina and Cleo. Katrina worked hard but was very devoted to her daughter, and as Cleo began to follow the clues out about some things her mother may have been dealing with, she understood how much loved her. There were a lot of twists to the story and I enjoyed the way the characters were devoted to each other to finding the truth. Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this ARC in exchange for a review.

3.6 stars. I did enjoy reading this, but it just seemed like there was too much going on!

I really wish she would have cut out some of the transcripts and diary entries. I also felt like there should have been more character development.

Overall, it was an easy read and the ending was shocking.

Thank you to Kimberly McCreight, Knopf Publishing, and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this advanced reader copy!

So, so good. I loved both Cleo and Katrina and I felt immediately invested in their respective stories. I like how the book was organized- following Cleo after the incident and Katrina before. It expertly weaved together the before and after and ended in a satisfying way.

I wouldn’t say the ending was predictable, but I will say that Will gave me weird vibes from the very beginning. That said, there were a lot of moving pieces with the different characters and I think it all worked together really well.

Wow, this mystery is just what I needed to read this weekend. I love a book that takes place in NYC and changes narrator perspective each chapter.

While I did end up figuring out one of the twists at the end, I really enjoyed the process to get there. There were multiple layers to this story, and actually not too many to keep track of. At times, there were a lot of characters but the story kept weaving the back in which made it easier to move forward.

Highly recommend to those interested in murder mysteries and missing person cases with twists. Not too heavy, not too scary, just enough suspense to keep you wanting to read instead of getting up from the couch!

What a richly complex story. Katrina and Cleo are Mother and Daughter. Cleo, a college student, is coming home for dinner when she enters the house and finds blood on the floor and one of her mother’s shoes with blood on it. Her mother is nowhere to be found. As Cleo begins to search for answers, she realizes she has more questions than answers.

Thus begins, a complicated, but in a good way, story of mother/daughter relationships and what parents hide from their children. This story is told in alternating voices of Kat and Cleo. It’s a story that builds and leads you down paths. By the time you realize what happened, you end up with an appreciation for the doozy of a wonderful mystery. This is well written, the story and plot line thought out, and the characters are complex and engaging. I enjoyed the complicated relationship of mother and daughter. The mother trying hard to protect her child, the daughter rebelling against the protection. You will enjoy this book!

When NYU student Cleo arrives home for a reconciliatory dinner with her mother, she finds the door open, food burning in the over and blood on the floor. Katrina, her mother is missing without any sign of where or why. So begins this domestic thriller.

McCreight's latest book is a slow-burner. After the compelling start, she slowly unfolds the characters: Cleo, the emotional student, Katrina, the buttoned-up lawyer, Aiden, the swaggering husband, and Kyle, the rich boyfriend / contemptuous drug dealer. And as she does so, new facets of each emerge.

Cleo begins to see that there is more to her mother than meets the eye. There are secrets from her past that are coming back to haunt the present and determine their future.

Although opposites in many ways, Cleo is her mother's daugther and despite stern warnings from the police not to get involved, she takes it upon herself to investigate and solve Kat's disappearance. And it's not until almost the very end that McCreight drops a bombshell that ties the daughter in with the mother so that it becomes truly like mother, like daughter. A very fun and fast read.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. I received an advanced reader copy of this book in return for an honest review.

I struggled to read this one. It WAS well written and all. But there was just something about it. Too many characters i believe…. I was shocked by some twists but overall I just had a difficult time really enjoying it …. 3.5 stars for me

4/5 stars for me. Great storyline and plot, but some details seemed unnecessary and didn’t move along so fast. The multiple timelines were easy to follow along with and definitely helped build the story. I still have unanswered questions, but I was pleased with most of the book regardless!

First, thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Overall, this was a good book. There were some gaps in the storyline between characters as you read and some of those gaps don't ever get addressed. Some of the gaps get addressed within the last 30 or so pages of the book and everything kind of comes together and you're able to make your own conclusions fairly easy. I liked that the main antagonist didn't really come to fruition until the last 20 pages or so, leaving me wanting to keep going and find out if my suspicions were on point (they were not this time). I also enjoyed the realities of a mother trying to be the best mother she can possibly be, but also realizing she isn't doing everything the right way due to her past. She admits to these things consistently and eventually realizes what she needs to do to help her relationship and does what she can and that spoke to me as a mother myself.