This book!!! This book!!!! Oh Kimberly McCreight you’ve done it again. I literally could not put this book down and I didn’t have it figure out until about 80% in! This was definitely a page turner. This is my third book by this author and this is just as great as Reconstructing Amelia which is my fave!

Thank you so much to the publisher and Netgalley for this copy!!

Let’s be honest - this book had me in a chokehold. It’s the first title I have the pleasure of reading written by the author and she did a FANTASTIC job at incorporating different POVs and tying it all together at the end. I do have to say it did take me a little bit of time to get into and actually finish it. I will not provide a lot of details of the book itself as it will not be released until July 9th of 2024. But honestly, the ending still has me shocked!

Thank you NetGalley and a big thanks to the publisher for providing me with the opportunity at an eARC.

If you love to read thrillers be sure to add this to your TBR pile.

Like McCreight’s other books, this one grabbed my attention and didn’t let go until the last page. The story begins as a mother goes missing. As the story progresses, readers are shown the difficulties that arise in a typical mother, daughter relationship and the lengths mothers will go to to protect their children. The suspects in the disappearance change from page to page and McCreight’s skillful writing ensures that each suspect is viable in the reader’s mind. Some thrillers allow you to surmise the ending very early in the book, but that was not the case here. I was left wondering until the very end.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a lightning-fast read that kept me guessing until pretty close to the end. There was a lot going on in this one, but it was well done and didn't seem complicated for the sake of adding red herrings or erroneous plot points.

Wow, this book! It was excellent! Even if the mystery hadn’t been good or thrilling, I would have loved it just for the mother-daughter story. Seeing Cleo come to understand her mother was so touching and rewarding. Their journey towards each other was so moving.
But the mystery/thriller aspect was also great! I spent 90% of the book being frustrated that I could read faster because I was dying to know what would happen. The ending wasn’t a total surprise to me as I had a strong suspicion about 3/4 of the way in, but even still, reading it was so satisfying.
I was so excited to see that the author already has other published books. I can’t wait to look them up.
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
Definitely read this!

For what the book was, it was a great thriller. It had a mix of legal thriller along with family drama which I liked a lot. Seeing people's reviews on it saying they couldn't put it down they were right! I flew through this book and cannot wait to read more from this author. Thank you net galley and knopf for this arc in exchange for my review.

I enjoyed this book! I felt like some of the back story and complaining about each other draggged on a bit but overall I thought it all came together well!

Barely made it through. MCreight wrote one of my favorites, Reconstructing Amelia, but this one just didn’t have what it takes to make a readable and plausible thriller.

When Cleo, a student at New York University, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then she discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened. But what?

A solid mystery with lots of tension and some good twists and turns. Well done!

3.5 stars. This book was captivating and kept me guessing from the first page. I loved that Cleo and Kat's relationship wasn't always easy and that Cleo learned so much about her mother through the book, it made it feel much less dramatic than it would have been if they had been on better terms. The second half of the book felt like there was too much happening with the sole purpose of throwing the reader off and then the ending just felt rushed and was a bit of a letdown. Overall, an easy thriller that will keep you interested.

Thanks to the author and publisher for the opportunity to read the ARC!

Just, why? McCreight puts so many potential suspects and storylines just to throw readers off that this thriller gets more and more convoluted and less believable by the second. The beginning will grab you: missing mom, estranged college-age daughter, shady past, intriguing secret job. But then toss in a greedy husband, a possible murder in the past, a possible murder of a current love interest, a drug dealing boyfriend, a pharmaceutical company scandal cover-up, blackmail, spying, secret identities, laptops, burner phones, inheritance money, sexual affairs, nosy neighbors...it's A LOT. I really wanted to like this one because I like the fraught mother-daughter relationships in McCreight's writing, but this got semi-ridiculous by the end.

Great book if you have all the time to not put it down. Love love love! It was the first book I read from the author, but definitely will no be the last.

Kimberly McCreight writes a compelling mystery of secrets kept and a past not spoken about in this page-turning thriller. I kept guessing until the end as the story easily goes from the past to the present with no confusion. The mother-daughter relationship is realistic and the emotions are raw. As Cleo searches for the truth about her mother, it takes her on a roller coster ride and she is faced to realise she didn't know her mom. A great novel and I look forward to reading more by McCreight.

I think this book just didn’t capture my attention by dragging on and on. It wasn’t a bad story it was just too slow moving for my taste. Thanks to Netgalley for the early release ARC.

Thanks to NetGalley for the arc!
This book started off great - the mystery of what happened to Cleo’s mother when she goes home and finds her missing. There was so much promise of a great story, unfortunately, this went downhill for me. I found it to be slightly confusing at times and felt like so much random stuff was written in the middle to take up space that didn’t fully apply to the main storyline. The ending was interesting, but overall, this book was not a hit with me.

This is a well written book that tells the tale of a mother/ daughter relationship. I was expecting it to be more of a suspense/ thriller novel which it is to a point. But the book also explores the sometimes complicated mother / daughter relationship. When a daughter comes home from college she discovers that her mother is missing. Dinner is burned on the stove and she discovers a bloody shoe. She soon discovers a lot about her mother that she didn’t know. Her mother grew up in a foster home for most of her life. I don’t want to give away any spoilers so I’ll say it’s good book that explores lots of different aspects. Thank you to net galley and the publisher for an ARC of this book

Have you ever just wanted to lay in bed and read until you finished a book because it’s that good? Well lucky for me I was sick and cuddled in bed all day to tear through this book with no excuses.
Once I started this book I just couldn’t stop. I loved the storyline and characters… I really feel the more I read Kimberly’s books the more she becomes the master of diversion. I always get caught looking the wrong way…. Her storylines are so intense that you can’t put them down.

Thank you, Netgalley for the ARC! Definitely a page turner!!! I’m not sure if this was my own issues with comprehension but I found myself confused about who was talking and what time period they were in. Oftentimes there were stories mentioned in the POV from another time that confused me. Overall, a great thriller.

Chloe goes to meet her mother, who she’s been keeping her distance from, but finds her mother missing. The only clues are signs of a struggle and a bloody shoe.

I enjoyed the mother daughter relationship plot to this one, but it was frustrating for me. Why was Kat so overbearing? I felt for Cleo. I found the mystery with the pharmaceuticals a bit slow and wasn’t very interested. I did want to find out what happened with Kat so I kept at it. There were a lot of different components to the story that came together.

“Every daughter is a monster in her own special way.”

Like Mother, Like Daughter comes out 7/9.

This book took me longer to get through than usual. It was good, and had a twist, but I was suspicious of the plot from about midway. Overall, I did enjoy this book and would recommend to others. I did like the emphasis it put on how turbulent mother/ daughter relationships can be.