It took me three tries to even get into this book. Once I had the characters and actions from the first few chapters fairly well figured out, I thought I was good to go. Ha-ha-ha! Quite frankly the book/plot is one jumbled up mess with too many characters, too much going on, too many side issues, too many back stories, asides and memories. It’s like the editor gave the author a boxful to things to include and the author was determined to include absolutely everything – plot and plot flow be damned!

I appreciate this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I’m sorry to be such a naysayer and I’m sure there are those who will enjoy it.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter. First of all, I’m a big fan of Kimberly McCreight’s books. She writes beautifully and really knows how to tell a story, especially thrillers. This book is no exception.
From the start I loved the setting, having lived in NY myself. I love the back and force narration and the fact that it was told by mother and daughter. The different timelines were also very cool. There were so many twists and turns, you really never knew who was behind it all. The characters felt very three dimensional to me. I really got to know the characters from all sides. I especially liked how much growth there was in the daughters character. She grew up and matured a lot throughout the story. All in all a gret book, I highly recommend it, as well as the rest of the authors books.

This was a great psychological thriller! I always enjoy reading books with multiple POVs and Kimberly McCreight executed it perfectly.

I thought Cleo was a bit annoying and immature until about halfway through the book, but I think that was probably intentional on Kimberly's part. Because as the storyline got more intense, the love for her mom became much more obvious.

I don't want to give any spoilers, but every minute kept me guessing. There were so many suspicious people, and I really had no idea what was happening or who did it!

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter.

I used to read this author regularly but stopped when her novels started to sound the same.

Every author has a certain style and Ms. McCreight's loves to weave stories based around the complicated relationships between mother and daughter.

This premise caught my eye and I thought, why not try this author again? Thankfully, NetGalley gave me the opportunity.

Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives home to find the house in disarray and her mother missing, she turns into Nancy Drew and sets out to find her mom. But, she may not like what she finds.

First, the standard tropes found in these genres (and others):

The entire family is gorgeous (and a few other people); supporting and minor characters make mention of this, calling Kat a 'babe' and how much Cleo looks like her mom, and Kat mentioning more than once how handsome her soon to be ex Aidan is.

Everyone is hiding something; Aidan is adultering, Kat is a fixer but everyone thinks she's a lawyer, Cleo has awful taste in men etc etc.

Then, the author throws everything but the kitchen sink at us, red herrings to throw us off the scent even though its obvious whodunnit:

The suspicious death of a man Kat liked, a difficult case she's working on, volatile clients, diary excerpts alluding to the terrible things Kat endured in her childhood at an orphanage of horrors, legal documents, counseling sessions transcripts, are to confuse the reader, and not necessary, because all this miscellany was confusing at times.

Naturally, the entire plot hinges on coincidences and the author's difficult request of the reader to suspend disbelief for the following:

What are the odds the bad guy would meet Cleo?

That all these unfortunate things happen all at the same time in this one week?

If you can suspend disbelief easily, then you'll have no problem with the plot.

The red herrings were distracting, coupled with all the unlikable supporting characters and misleading subplots weren't helpful.

This wasn't a bad read, but not suspenseful and the plot hard to believe.

I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down until the very end! The characters were well developed and I found myself staying up way past my bedtime to finish it. Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this incredible book! I will definitely be sharing it with all of my fellow book lovers!

This book had a lot of twists and turns that kept you guessing till the very end. Everyone at some point in my mind was a suspect. I couldn't put this book down because I had the constant urge to know what happens next. The alternating timelines between the mother and daughter was also something I enjoyed. I'm really glad I got an advanced copy to read and can't wait for it's release date.

To be honest, this cover didn’t draw me in and I wasn’t expecting much. But once I started reading, I was hooked! We hear the story from the alternating perspectives of Kat and Cleo, mother and daughter. Kat is missing and Cleo is doing whatever she can to find her. A lot of tangled webs in this book and it kept me on the edge of my seat!

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for sending me an ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter in exchange for an honest review.

Cleo is a college student who has a difficult relationship with her mother, Kat. After reluctantly agreeing to come over for dinner, Cleo finds their Brooklyn home empty—except there’s food burning on the stove and there’s a bloody shoe. The police begin a missing persons investigation, and Cleo soon realizes that there was much more going on in her mother’s life than she realized, and that there are a lot of people in their lives who mean them harm ….

I loved A Good Marriage and really liked Reconstructing Amelia, so I was excited to read Like Mother, Like Daughter. As with those books, there’s really good characterization with the two main characters here. Unfortunately, though, I thought this story fell far short of those two books.

First, I thought the storytelling was overly convoluted. I have no problem with telling the tale through two different time lines—Kat’s starting eight days before she went missing and Cleo’s starting when she discovered the empty house. But you start adding in diary entries, therapist notes, litigation paperwork, and then some texts from unidentified people from the day Kat went missing, and it gets a bit confusing.

Second, I thought the plot was too busy. Is Katrina’s disappearance somehow related to the death of the man she had started dating? Or perhaps her role as her law firm’s morally gray fixer? Is it connected to her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s need for her inheritance money? Because of Cleo’s drug-dealing ex-boyfriend Kyle? Why is her assistant Jules acting so strangely? And who is sending Kat threatening texts about revealing something from Kat’s past, when she was a teenager in foster care at Haven House? There are red herrings on red herrings on red herrings.

Finally, there are the much too coincidental events that take place throughout Like Mother, Like Daughter. I mean generally speaking, what are the odds all of the above problems would come to a head in Kat’s life in the same week? Then there’s the character whose only purpose seems only to annoying Kat, until she returns late to provide a series of vital pieces of information to Cleo. The story apparently required a connection between two characters that strains believability. Worst of all, like Chekov’s gun, I guess when you introduce a door inside a house that strangely locks from the outside, that door will prove pivotal in the story’s climax. An ultimately disappointing read. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

A twisty, suspense that keeps you wondering and keeps you on your toes. There are lots of layers and elements to this story that make for an intriguing read that you want to finish in a few sittings! Thank you for this advanced reader copy, I’ll be recommending it to others!

3.5 rounded up! Got a chance to read this before publication, thanks to NetGalley! (recommended by a friend) There were a few minor grammatical errors, but ultimately this was a fun/quick read! I really loved the structure of this book, I know we see a lot of dual POVs in recent releases, but I think Kimberly McCreight found a really innovative way to juxtapose the plot using the dual POVs. I think I preferred the Cleo chapters, just as a personal preference. Overall, would definitely recommend for anybody wanting a quick thriller, with some great mother/daughter relationship perspective woven throughout.

It was twisty and suspenseful but it couldn’t quite get there for me at the end. Perhaps it was due to too many storylines I had to follow, or perhaps because I couldn’t connect quite well with the characters. A solid book overall.

Kimberly McCreight has written a book that will mess with your mind!
She has written this novel with a marvelous intensity that drew me in from beginning to the end. I wish I was half the mother Katrina is, but my daughter is smarter than Cleo..
Just remember to watch out for those extra friendly neighbors.

I really enjoyed this thriller about a mother and daughter, who while estranged when the book starts, find they are more similar than they originally believed. Strong pacing and crisp writing kept me guessing until the final pages.

DNF 20% I had a very hard time getting into this story. The characters and the storyline were boring and a bit all over the place.

The plot was definitely intriguing, but I never found myself fully hooked. I wasn't extremely drawn to any of the characters, maybe just Detective Wilson. It was obvious who was shady and who you could trust, but I had a hard time fathoming that a college age student was capable of investigating this much into her mom's disappearance.

There were definitely a couple good twists but nothing that was TOO crazy or unprecedented to sway my opinion. I'll agree with most others that the review was anticlimactic.

Major thanks to NetGalley for providing an ACR of this book in exchange for my review!

This is a fast paced, mystery-thriller that will keep the reader turning pages. A daughter is summoned home by her mother only to find her mother missing and a broken glass as well as some blood in the kitchen. As she begins her own investigation in the hopes of finding her mother she stumbles upon many secrets and sees her mother in a very different light, causing her to evaluate their relationship as well as the relationships with her father and long time neighbors. She finds herself in danger, not knowing who to trust, as her world is turned upside down. Told alternately by her mother in the days before she goes missing, and the daughter in the days after the reader gets the whole story as both women stumble onto the truth of what happened. All of the loose ends are artfully tied up in an epilogue that gives the reader satisfying closure and does not interfere with the suspense and excitement of the climax plot twist.

I enjoyed Kimberly McCreight's thriller, Like Mother, Like Daughter. In this novel Cleo, a college student dabbling in risky behavior discovers her mother Kat is missing. The novel takes the reader through Kat's investigation into her mother's life as she searches to find Kat alive. I found this novel fast-paced and intriguing and enjoyed the ending. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for the perfect easy-to-read summer thriller. I rate this book 5 stars.

Thanks to Netgally for providing an advance copy of this book for me to read and review.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC. I love thrillers so this book caught my attention, and as a mom to one daughter I am always interested in reading about the often confusing relationships between mothers and daughters. It's often complex and the relationship between the Kat, the mom, and Cole, the daughter, is particularly complicated! I really enjoyed Reconstructing Amelia but I found this book fell a bit short for me. It was sometimes confusing with the multiple points of view and the ending was a bit of a disappointment. Not one of my favorites by Kimberly McCreight.

Pretty good read. I did like the author's first book and honestly this one disappointed when compared to that. I found the different timelines slightly confusing and not altogether necessary. Just an okay read for me. Thank you Netgalley for the advance copy.

Cleo begrudgingly comes over to her mom's house for dinner one night and what she found was a shock. Burning food, blood, and her mom missing. Assuming the worst, Cleo calls the police and starts searching for her mom on her own.

Kat is Cleo's opposite. A meticulous planner and super organized, Cleo has no idea who is after her mother. What Cleo doesn't know is that her mother's career isn't law as she's been led to believe her whole life. Kat is a fixer, and now she may be the one being fixed.

Unraveling a web of lies that continues to get more and more complex, Kimberly McCreight spins a tale so dark, so sinister, I couldn't get enough.