Kimberly McCreight, author of Reconstructing Amelia, is quickly becoming a favorite author. I received an opportunity to read Like Mother, Like Daughter early through Net Galley and thoroughly enjoyed it. We follow Katrina, Kat, a mother with a past and her daughter Cleo. Their stories intersect throughout the book on a roller coaster of a cat and mouse game. No spoilers so please add it to your book shelf to read. You won't be disappointed. Many thanks to Net Galley.

Kimberly is great at making the most insignificant details seem insignificant... even when they hold tremendous weight in these characters' lives.

I am terrible with spoilers, so I will leave my review at that.

Cleo returns home to find food burning on the stove and her mother missing. Cleo discovers her mother is a fixer and has her own secrets to hide. Twisty thriller that's had to put down.

This was an incredible book. It had me hooked from the very beginning. I love a good mystery and this did not disappoint. Impossible to figure out who were the good guys and the bad guys. Everyone was suspect. This is the first book I have read by this author but it won't be the last.

I had the opportunity to read an ARC through NetGalley.

Katrina is an overbearing and meddling mom. Cleo is at an age and a point in life where she is done with her mom involving herself in all her business. To stop Katrina's pleas to see her, Cleo heads home one evening and finds that her mom is missing. Cleo, unwilling to sit around and wait, she does what her mom would do and starts the search for her. The story then weaves back and forth from before and after and the perspective of both mother and daughter. We learn a lot about both women and how in the end they are truly alike.

I have long been a fan of Kimberly McCreight and have been excitedly awaiting this book.
It did not disappoint. I have already been telling all my friends to add it to their TBR lists.
The saddest part is now I have to start the wait again for her next book!

"Like Mother, Like Daughter" by Kimberly McCreight is an intriguing mystery. The well-crafted plot, filled with unexpected twists, keeps you hooked, while McCreight's insightful portrayal of relationships adds depth. A must-read for those seeking a compelling and memorable story.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was an engaging quick thriller read. This was my first book by Kimberly McCreight and I was happy that I tried a new author.

Cleo and her mother, Kat don’t get along, but when she agrees to meet her mother she wasn’t expecting to find a broken glass, food burning and blood on the floor. What ensues is a page turning back and forth point of view from both women as both are hiding secrets. The author does a great job of portraying a strained mother daughter relationship and how our upbringings affect the way we raise and parent our children.

The storyline is tense and twisty with a great epilogue that wraps up the book perfectly.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

What a thriller!! I was absolutely on the edge of my seat. There are so many twists and turns I did not see coming. The relationship between mother and daughter was very interesting as it developed. I highly recommend!

When I find myself happy to be reading a little each day instead of racing to finish it, I know it’s a 3 star read. It started out strong, and I enjoyed the mystery of Kat’s disappearance. I found the mother’s job interesting and liked how they tied in people she worked with. The ending was satisfying. Thank you to Knopf, Net Galley and Kimberly McCreight for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

What an amazing book! The plot had so many twists and turns, and when I thought I had it figured it out, I was proven wrong. I throughly enjoyed this authors writing style and the length of the book was the perfect amount!

I was super excited to start this book because I have enjoyed quite a few of McCreight’s books, but sadly this one fell flat for me. I was hooked from the very beginning but then it was a little confusing to remember who was who and how these people were connected. It was a super quick read, but for me the twists were way too easy to figure out what happened and who was doing what. The last 50 pages or so wrapped everything up nicely but the whole part about Katrina’s job and what was going on was boring and I didn’t understand why I should care about those parts. It felt like 4 different stories throughout the whole book and they barely connected. At least there was a happy ending…

I was excited to get this ARC as I really liked this author's prior book 'Reconstructing Amelia'. This however, fell a bit flat for me. Once again, the author focuses on strained mother/daughter relationships. Here a lawyer, Kat, and her college aged daughter Cleo, butt heads over everything; Cleo's goth appearance, who she dates, her friends, what she studies, etc.. When her mom tries to broker a truce by inviting Cleo over to dinner one night, Cleo finds the door unlocked, glass everywhere, and her mom's bloody shoe. Thus begins Cleo's redemptive quest to find out what happened to her mom. This story is told from 3 perspectives: Cleo in the present, Kat leading up to the event, and Kat's past growing up in an abusive foster home where she may or may not have committed a murder.

There are so many potential suspects here; a man from Kat's past, one of her client's from her current case, her cheating husband who wants her money to fund his failing directing career, the list goes on. There are not many likeable characters here. You feel bad for Kat, due to her past, but now she's a successful Park slope lawyer, with an entitled teenager whose boyfriend is a drug dealer. Her neighbors are all thinly written, as is the husband. Of all her clients, Vivienne was my favorite; a dot.com programming wonder woman whose acerbic wit brought me out of the slow pace of this book. I'd read a book about her alone.

Once Cleo finds out her mom is not as she seems, and gets closer to finding out what happened, the pace picks up a bit. It's just pure luck and anticlimactic what actually happened to her mom in the end, and I found the reveal of the culprit a bit far fetched. A decent thriller but his author could have done better.

The book pacing was excellent. Keeping me engaged. . This is a great thriller. You will not be disappointed in reading this book..Highly recommend it.

I am a huge fan of Kimberly McCreight! And this book did not disappoint! This book is about Kat, a powerful, overprotective, strict mother to Cleo, a very troubled, impulsive college daughter. Kat is a "fixer" at her law firm. Cleo has been a drug runner for a friend at college. Aiden, Kat's husband, is the fun parent. Cleo comes home reluctantly, and finds the smoke alarm blaring, food burning on the stove and blood on the floor, and no Kat. Will the relationship between mother and daughter bring them together or further apart in the search for each other? My only complaint is that it was a little hard to keep up with so many narratives throughout the book and tie them together. Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC.

I quite enjoyed this thriller. In reading the synopsis I wasn’t sure I would but it kept me turning pages right up to the end. It was a fast read , with multiple viewpoints and timelines. Also letters, chats, news articles, journal entries and emails which I always enjoy in a book. The characters are all flawed and broken but you definitely are rooting for them. I would definitely recommend picking up this thriller .

This is the thriller I have been waiting for!

It kept me second guessing myself the entire book. I thought I would have something figured out, and then McCreight would disprove it in the next chapter. I liked that even though I guessed some things, I did not see the ending coming. I will definitely be recommending this book to all my thriller loving friends.

I'm unsure if it is just how my mind works, but this book was pretty predictable to me. I really was hoping it wouldn't be. I also struggled with the style of writing. It wasn't a terrible book, but wasn't the greatest either. I definitely will try another book by this author to see if all of the books are like this.

The book had a lot going on with basically 2 different stories of the woman’s past and her career. Those stories didn’t seem to combine when the twist came out on who actually did it. The mother and daughter relationship in the story was great. I think most people can relate to it like I did.

This book starts with a three page prologue that will just floor you if you are a mother. It sets the tone for the story of Chloe, a privileged college girl, and her mother Katrina, an uptight lawyer who is a fixer for the firm. Chloe arrives at the family’s Brooklyn Heights home to find her mother missing,and one bloodied shoe left behind. While father Aiden thinks the police will take over, Chloe is quietly investigating on her own.

In this book, Chloe and Katrina’s timelines shift between present to past, and back again, with a number of other characters along the way. Though I’m not always a fan of multiple timelines, I had no problem keeping everyone straight, I think McCreight job of keeping all the plates in the air. I enjoyed the book.

There were so many people in this book! I kept getting confused! Maybe it is just me though. Maybe my brain needs fewer people it doesn’t have to work too hard keeping track of all the characters!

The story got thin and long in the middle. And the ending was…weird? I’m glad that it didn’t leave any loose ends though.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book.