Such a good book! I really loved it and couldn't put it down! Five stars without a doubt. I really enjoyed the different character points of view. And inserts of transcripts.

I really enjoyed! Tense, and held my attention right from the start, fun thriller! Definitely recommend

Attention grabbing from the very beginning. Appreciated the real emotion from Katrina! Would recommend for sure!!!

This book got a hold of me since page one. It was such a ride! Did not except thee ending but did not disappoint.

*Trigger warnings for this book: SA and intimate partner violence.*

I wasn’t sure I !was going to enjoy this through the first 50 pages, but I am glad I stayed with it. This one became harder and harder to put down the further I got into it. Cleo and her mother, Kat, are characters that readers will easily become invested in. Cleo’s relationship with her mom is complicated, but when Cleo discovers Kat is missing, she doesn’t just rely on the police to figure out what happened to Kat. Cleo starts her own “vigilante” investigation to get to the bottom of what happened to Kat, and she quickly discovers her mom leads a complex life and has a slew of secrets. It’s plausible that any number of people were involved in Kat’s disappearance, and that kept me guessing right up until I got smacked in the face with the twist. Just when I thought I had it figured out…nope, I sure didn’t. The ending did feel a little abrupt, but thankfully there is an epilogue that does provide some closure for the reader. I think this will be insanely popular when the book publishes this summer, and I could absolutely see it as a movie that I would 100 percent go watch. If you like suspense books, put this on your TBR!

This story absolutely grabbed my interest and held on. It is well paced and has a cast of villains that kept me guessing until the ending. I loved it!! And highly recommend.

I loved this book! It was a great pallet refresh after reading so many long fantasy books. It also helps that I love thrillers with female authors!

The book starts off with the main protagonist missing, and has two POVS: the mother before she went missing and the daughter after the event. I was hooked right away on trying to figure out with the daughter who did it and why.

I really liked how realistic each character was. There were no black and white character tropes in this book. Even the two main protags had their own messy past, so it was hard to pin the blame on one person solely because they seemed to have motive. I’ve never read a thriller where I had no idea who the culprit was (I mean I had an idea, but I didn’t realize WHO it actually was).

I also really liked how motherhood/daughterhood is portrayed here. As someone who had a rocky relationship with their own mom growing up, it really brought up all the feels as the plot went on. It touched on how hard being a mom is when you have no idea what you’re doing, and how easy it is to pin your own insecurities on your mom as a daughter (after finishing the book, I texted my mom and told her I love her). I want to read all of this authors books now!

3.5 stars rounded up.

I enjoyed this authors debut work so was happy to get a look at her newest novel. Once again we're dealing with mothers and daughters, and the fraught relationship between them. It's an interesting story, a mystery, a past, nothing very deep and you're unsure where the story will go (particularly with the pharma plotline). Lots happening here, ultimately the husband and the boyfriends all are terrible. Seriously. But it's enjoyable and quick. Wish we got to spend more times with Jules.

Cleo and her mother Kat have more in common than they think, but Cleo, a college student, thinks the worst of her mother. She tries to keep her at arm's length, but decides to have dinner with her one night. When Cleo arrives, she finds the dinner burning in the oven and a bloody shoe on the floor. What has happened to her mother? Kat is portrayed a a successful attorney but in truth she is the "fixer" for her firm and this leads to deadly consequences. Can Cleo find her mother before her past catches up with her? A tense, taut and thrilling mystery. Well thought out.

This was an enjoyable thriller about a girl trying to find out what happened to her Mom. I felt there were a few too Many characters but I never guessed what happened. Fast paced and the author doesn't weigh down the story with unnecessary description.

This thriller had me on the edge of my seat and kept me guessing until the very end. The characters were very complex and well-developed and the narrative unfolding from various perspectives added depth to the story. There were times where the many characters made it a bit hard to keep track, but overall, it kept me engaged and I really enjoyed it!

I love McCreight so this was highly anticipated for me, but it unfortunately fell a little flat. I felt a little bored throughout most of the book and the ending was anticlimactic. I can see why so many are enjoying this one, but it just wasn’t for me. I’ll definitely be looking forward to what’s next from this author.

📖Like Mother, Like Daughter
✍️Kimberly McCreight
📠Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor
📚Mystery/Thriller, Fiction
🗓️Pub date: July 9, 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Cleo, a college student at NYU, has a strained relationship with her mother but agrees to meet her at home so they can talk. When Cleo arrives, she finds dinner burning on the stove, a shattered glass on the kitchen floor and, most distressingly, a puddle of blood by the kitchen island with her mother's bloody shoe nearby. Cleo begins her search to find her missing mother and, in so doing, unravels many of her mother's secrets. It turns out Cleo didn't know her mother as well as she thought she did. The story is told in alternating viewpoints from Cleo (in the present day) and her mother (in the days leading up to her disappearance).

The book is a fun, twisty thriller but I found that there were too many subplots in the story. Presumably this was done to keep the reader guessing as to the identity of the culprit behind the mother's disappearance, but the sheer number of subplots only served to weigh down the story. I was also disappointed in the ending which to me seemed unrealistic and far-fetched, not to mention extremely abrupt.

Despite some challenges I think this book is well-written and is a fun thriller to read. I would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking of picking it up.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter is contains as much insight into the mother/daughter relationship as it does thrill and mystery. Kat is a successful lawyer in her law firm, taking on many high profile cases with great success. She wishes to be as good of a parent to her daughter, Cleo, as she is at her job. Cleo is a student at NYU who has gotten into the wrong crowd against her mother's wishes. After several explosive arguments, Kat extends an olive branch to Cleo by offering to make her dinner at home. When Cleo arrives, she finds dinner burning in the oven and no sign of her mother other than broken glass, a shoe, and a trail of blood. Could her disappearance have to do with one of her recent cases or her divorce? Maybe her troubled past in a group home? Or could it be Cleo's drug dealer ex boyfriend? In order to find her mother, Cleo must deal with her own struggles while digging into the past and present of her mother.

I especially enjoyed the author's exploration of the mother/daughter relationship in this book--by the end of the book, the reader realizes that Cleo and her mother share more common ground than originally thought. The only reason that I didn't rate this book slightly higher is that there were lots of "mini-mysteries" and threads that I thought would all tie together in the end and be connected, but some of them turned into coincides or being entirely unrelated to the main mystery. I really enjoyed this author's writing style, and would recommend this book and read more of their work! I rated this one 3.75/5 stars.

Cleo's mother goes missing. The story enfold using mastery of writing in multiple points of biew. The author has you quickly invested and wanting you to quickly turn the page. Explosive and one of the best kinds of thriller.

Kimberly McCreight is a new author for me. After reading the summary, I was excited to dive into the book.

Cleo is a student at NYU that has a complicated relationship with her mother, Kat. She shows up at her mother’s house to find the door unlocked, dinner burning, blood on the floor, and Kat missing.

I enjoyed the multiple POV in the story and that it jumped back and forth between past and present. I also liked that it included court documents, text messages, and therapists notes.

I did feel the story started a little slow. I was about 25% through before I was really interested. I also felt the ending was a little abrupt and left something to be desired. The story had a decent plot and I would read more from the author in the future.

Thank you netgalley for the Arc in exchange for my review. This book is slated for release on July 9, 2024.

Oooh, this one kept me guessing. It was full of twists and surprises and unlikable, troubled characters. I did figure out the twist at the end, big boy was it a fun and crazy one anyway (CRAZY!!). Really enjoyed it.

This is a good one. I enjoyed the nuances and multi faceted look at a mother/daughter relationship. There was just enough going on that you weren’t exactly sure what was happening or where it was going, and I enjoyed that.

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

Review of Uncorrected Proof eBook

At her mother’s behest, Cleo reluctantly heads for Brooklyn to see her mother, Katrina. When she arrives, no one comes to the door. Cleo discovers the door is open and heads inside where she finds a pot burning on the stove, charred something that might have once been chicken in the oven. Calling for her mom, she tends to all the burned food and shuts off the smoke alarm.

Then she discovers one of her mother’s shoes under the edge of the sofa, smeared with something. Looking around, she sees broken glass on the kitchen floor . . . and blood. She realizes it the shoe is also smeared with blood.

What has happened to Kat? And what doesn’t Cleo know about her mother?

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Told from both Cleo’s and Katrina’s points of view, the unfolding story slowly reveals the secrets both women have kept as readers learn more about their relationships. Alternating between past and present, the narrative slowly fills in the backstory, giving readers a clearer understanding of how their mother/daughter relationship deteriorated.

Interspersed throughout the narrative are snippets of a court case involving a pharmaceutical company that, like the two women, is holding its own secrets. All of these plot points work together to ramp up the suspense, keeping readers guessing as the tension grows and the plot twists and turns in unexpected ways.

With complex, yet believable [although not always likable] characters, readers who enjoy thrillers with a familial twist will find much to appreciate here as the story keeps readers guessing until the unexpected denouement finally reveals the truths.

Highly recommended.

I received a free copy of this book from Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor, Knopf and NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
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Mother/daughter relationships are hard to navigate. More so when there are secrets. Cleo’s mother is missing and clues are indicating.that it wasn’t voluntary. As the past is revealed Cleo is gaining a new understating of her mother’s past. This book is an emotional rollercoaster that you don’t want to put down

I thought this book was well written, the characters were realistic. I could absolutely believe the story could happen
The format of the book is each chapter is from a different character’s point of view at a different point on the timeline. I personally don’t care for the jumping back and forth but it is a minor thing.