This book wasn't quite for me, but I did enjoy the dynamics of the mother/daughter relationship. There was a lot of potential here for something more but this will not deter me from this author's future works.

▪️ Unfortunately, this book didn’t quite hit the mark for me. The pacing was slow, the storyline was underwhelming overall, and the ending was disappointing.

▪️ However, I did find the mother/daughter relationship to be quite unique and compelling, especially because their stories were shared from their individual POVs in the book. Their dynamic felt authentic, albeit dysfunctional.

▪️ This was my first time reading a book by this author, and I wish I would have enjoyed it more.

Thank you @netgalley and Knopf for sending me a copy of this book, which I have read and reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

This book moved slowly for me. I fell back and forth on it, sometimes having to go back and reread portions to get to where the book was going. The mystery gradually unfolds as both mother and daughter's stories are revealed and a mystery from the past comes to light. This book wasn't for me but I am sure others enjoyed it. I may have just been a distracted reader. It was well written, I just could not seem to get into the characters.

Kimberly McCreight knows how to write well-paced thrillers, and this one was no different. I love a seedy underbelly of Brooklyn wealthy family vibe and this didn't disappoint. Would recommend.

The assembly of the book is jumbled. It was hard to keep track of the timeline because it jumped from Kat to Cleo back to the 90s and then to transcripts. I thought it could have been arranged better.
I didn’t care for Cleo or Aiden for most of the book. I thought both were quite selfish and only out for themselves.
It was an ok read..

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McFreight is a fast paced thriller that spotlights family secrets and mysteries. I want to read more from this author. Great read.

This was ok—not my favorite of the year.

I thought the writing and character development was excellent. Cleo and her mom had a dicey relationship…but now that I’m the mom of a teen, I question how much of that was just Cleo not liking her mom intruding on her life and how much was legitimate.

I thought there were some unresolved plot points that i was left feeling like they were important to concluding the story. The money, for sure. Without that conclusion, it’s hard for me to resolve the storyline and feel like the story is actually wrapped up. There were also parts that were so fantastical that they didn’t feel real.

One thing I absolutely loved and would have loved to read more of was about Kat’s job. Knowing she was a law firm fixer and then really only seeing her ignore her clients and boss, etc etc was off-putting. It’s a wildly cool job that could have helped the storyline along.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a fast-paced, emotionally charged thriller that explores the complexities of family secrets, lies, and the bond between mothers and daughters. The story opens with Cleo, a college student at NYU, returning home to find her mother, Kat, missing—and a bloody shoe hidden under the sofa. From that moment on, McCreight pulls readers into a tense, suspenseful narrative that alternates between Cleo’s desperate search for answers and Kat’s haunting secrets, slowly revealing the truth about their fractured relationship.

At first glance, Cleo and Kat appear to be polar opposites. Cleo is emotional, reckless, and often in trouble, while Kat is the picture of perfection: a successful corporate lawyer with a seemingly perfect life. But beneath the surface, Kat has been hiding far more than Cleo realizes. As the story unfolds, we learn that Kat is not just a lawyer—she’s a highly skilled “fixer” who has spent years navigating dangerous situations in her personal and professional life. As Cleo digs deeper into her mother’s disappearance, she uncovers a web of lies, threats, and buried trauma that challenges everything she thought she knew about her mother and herself.

McCreight excels in creating a tense atmosphere filled with twists and suspense. The dual perspectives of Cleo and Kat allow readers to understand the complexity of their relationship and the emotional stakes involved. While Cleo grapples with the realization that her mother has been hiding dangerous truths from her, Kat is struggling to protect both herself and Cleo from threats that are much darker than either of them fully understands.

At its core, Like Mother, Like Daughter is a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to protect the other, even if it means uncovering painful truths. The novel digs deep into themes of trust, betrayal, and the difficult choices people make to protect their loved ones. The suspense is palpable throughout, and the emotional depth of the characters makes this much more than just a thriller—it’s a profound exploration of family, sacrifice, and the lengths we go to for the ones we love.

Overall, Like Mother, Like Daughter is a compelling, twisty psychological thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats while offering a deeply emotional and thought-provoking exploration of family dynamics. It’s a gripping read for fans of suspenseful novels with a strong emotional core.

This book is an absolute delight with well-constructed characterization and an amazingly tense execution that draws readers into the mystery from the beginning. The author adeptly weaves different twists simultaneously: a significant pharmacy case impacting people's lives, a ghost from the protagonist's past threatening to resurface and jeopardize her, and a husband in urgent need of money, willing to go to extremes. From the start to the end, readers can formulate theories, make guesses, piece together the puzzle, and ponder what happened to Katrina McHugh.

A slow read that I had to keep going back to. The voice of one of the main characters irritated me, and I think there was intent to make sure we could understand her youth, but I found it to be a distraction. However, the story had some interesting twists, and it did keep me guessing throughout.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for an advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

Hold on to your seats! This fast paced thriller kept me guessing until the last page. Cleo is investigating her mother’s disappearance and starts to realize that although her relationship with her mom has always been tumultuous, they have more in common than she ever could have dreamed!

Kimberly McCreight has been a go-to author for me ever since I read Reconstructing Amelia in my high school years. There’s just something about the way she’s able to blend the domestic thriller and legal thriller genres that makes her writing incredibly bingeable.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is her latest, following NYU student Cleo as she investigates the disappearance of her mother Kat, a fixer at a high-powered law firm in the city. The story starts filled with action and doesn’t let up until the very end. It has all of McCreight’s signature elements, including lots of plot threads that somehow come together in the end and a great deal of heart.

The relationship between Cleo and Kat was definitely the highlight of the book for me. I thought McCreight did an excellent job of portraying the ups and downs of a mother-daughter relationship, and getting to read from both Cleo and Kat’s POVs really helped develop that element of the story.

However, while I always enjoy seeing how McCreight is able to craft that “a-ha” moment from all of the plotlines, I felt that Like Mother, Like Daughter had just a bit too much going on and could have been a bit longer to fully flesh out all of the small details. Without giving away too much, there were some smaller plot points that ended up playing a big role in the final reveal, but I felt that they needed a bit more development to maximize the emotional impact.

Overall, I’d definitely recommend this for anyone who’s looking for a quick, family-focused thriller that isn't too heavy or scary.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is out now. Thanks to Knopf for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is an intriguing thriller. I love reading books in this genre and this book definitely surprised me in a very good way because it was not easily predictable. The circumstances of this book were so crazy yet believable. The ending made the whole book worth it. I highly recommend this book. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

This book was a great quick read! I liked the mystery being from the point of the daughter. It was not my favorite read of the year, but I was questioning the reasoning and motives behind the different characters.

Everyone keeps some secrets, right? But boy do this mother-daughter duo take the cake on secrets. Kat and her daughter Cleo have a complicated relationship, to say the least. We follow this mother-daughter duo in a multiple POV and multiple timeline thriller when one goes missing. This did such a great job of highlighting the complexities of mother/daughter relationships but also incorporating how perspectives and biases can affect the decisions that one makes. It takes looking at things from another point of view to be able to understand where that person is coming from. All of this, while trying to solve a mystery.

Kimberly McCreight did such a beautiful job with character development, from before to after timelines and during the plot of the story. It was a great depiction of a bond that can be made or broken between a mother and a daughter. I think that the beginning was a little slow for me but it picked up and turned into an incredible thriller, with a few twists even I didn’t see coming.

Thank you to NetGalley, Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor and Kimberly McCreight for the eARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter in exchange for an honest review. Rated up for 4.5 Stars. I’m a little behind so publication date for Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight was 30 July 2024.

Cleo returns home from NYU one evening to find food burning in the oven, a bloody shoe, and she can't find her mother Kat anywhere. What follows is Cleo's investigation into her mother's life to find out what happened to her. Kat is a corporate lawyer and fixer, and through her perspective we get the timeline from before the disappearance.

The main plot of this was solid. The book begins with the mysterious disappearance and I was instantly intrigued. But unfortunately along the way that interest was lost because there was just too much going on; too many side plots, characters, and the alternating timelines got a little fuzzy. There were a few plot twists but nothing that blew me away.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for providing me a digital reviewer copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.

I am so thankful to Knopf, PRH Audio, Kimberly McCreight, and Netgalley for granting me advanced access to this galley before publication day. I really enjoyed the dialogue and plot of this book and can’t wait to chat this one up with my friends!

This was an awesome thriller! All the twists and turns kept me engaged and not wanting to put it down. The ending ties everything all together.

Thank you for this arc!

I think this is a book worth reading if you enjoy fast past thrillers and lots of red herrings. Unfortunately this book wasn’t for me- there were just too many unlikeable characters for me and I found myself rolling my eyes after a while. However, this is a personal preference and doesn’t speak to the quality of the writing at all.

Once I was able to follow along with the characters and the timelines (which was a little complicated), Like Mother, Like Daughter turned in an interesting thriller that kept my attention throughout the story. It was clear that the story was leading up to something big and there were a few surprises and red herrings along the way. A good page-turner, but one that I probably will eventually forget about.