First of all, let me say this book is busy – there is a lot going on, but it worked well. I easily followed the multiple POV’s and all of the little storylines within the main story. This wasn’t a fast-paced (which isn’t a bad thing); it took time for the story to develop and for you to understand how everything fit. Personally, I LOVE that in a book…the “what in the world is happening” is one of my favorite things. The portrayal of the mother/daughter relationship was the best aspect of the book….from the prologue I knew I was going to relate to it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf publishers for the opportunity to read Like Mother, Like Daughter. Cleo is the daughter of Kat and Aiden. Cleo is a student in college and is on the outs with her mother and has a close relationship with her father. Cleo feels like her mother Kat is controlling and hasn't spoken to her in almost six months when she gets a text from her mother to come and have dinner with her. Cat arrives and her mother is gone, there is blood on the floor and a broken wine glass. The mystery begins there as Cat starts the search for her mother and finds out that people aren't always who we build them up to be.

I just cannot get interested in this book. There’s way too much going on, the timeline jumps all over the place. There’s texts and therapy transcripts and court records to muddle through and I just cannot bring myself to care about any of the characters because they’re all horrendous. Rich people with rich people problems.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC to review.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read the advanced copy.
I enjoyed the premise of the book. The reader knows right away that both the mother and daughter have secrets and do not have a close relationship. I was eager to figure out what some of the secrets were.
As I continued to read, I often became distracted and confused. I felt that the main story was great, but the different characters and plot points took away from the main story. I thought that this could have been developed more. I also didn't love the included testimony from the trial and just wanted to get back to the mother and daughter.
The twist at the end was interesting and I liked that part.

I really enjoyed this book. The story, the writing style, the back and forth between Cleo and Kat points of view. It kept me intrigued. At some points, I thought it was definitely Aidan and at others, I thought it was her co-worker. Having Cleo's POV made the story complete, how she thought her mom was toxic and overprotective when in reality she was trying to protect Cleo from the dangers Kat herself had suffered when younger. A mother's love is strong and unbreakable. I felt like I missed a little more of closing for Aidan. Did he pay back the money? Where is his and Cleo's relationship? But overall, a thrilling story kept me hooked and interested.

I really enjoyed this story. This was fast paced, twisty, and very smartly written.
In this story you follow a woman named Katrina (Kat), who is a lawyer (but really a fixer) for a big law firm. We also follow Cleo (Kat’s daughter), who is a college student at NYU. One night when Cleo goes home to meet her mom for dinner, she finds the house in disarray and her mom missing. In Kat’s POV you follow her in the days leading up to her disappearance and in Cleo’s POV you follow the aftermath of Cleo trying to find out what happened to her mom.
I really enjoyed the character development in this story and how the mother and daughter evolved. I would definitely recommend this book.

I gave this book 4 stars. It was a good story line full of twists. It was a little bit slow moving and at times hard to follow.

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!