Not only is this a great thriller, but it is also a great portrayal of the mother/daughter relationship and the ways mothers are shaped to raise their own daughters by their pasts, mothers and lack of mothers. Mothers and daughters struggle, not understanding each other or seeing eye to eye without understanding that they are really more alike than they think.

This book was very hard to put down. There are many twists and turns, and it was very hard to figure out exactly who was to blame.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review.

This thriller throws you right on into the plot, which is fun! But does not allow for much character development or background. It was full of twists, but also a bit unrealistic, and there were a few sections/outtakes I did not understand. I’ll round up to 4 stars!

Thank you very much to Netgalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight. Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for this advanced reader copy. Publication date is July 2024, and I predict this will be the book of the summer! What a great read! NYU student Cleo heads home to Brooklyn to catch up with her mom, but when she gets there, corporate lawyer Kat isn’t in their brownstone. There’s blood on the floor and signs of a struggle. Kat has gone missing. Cleo soon discovers many new things about her mom. Apparently, she’s not a boring patent attorney; she’s a fixer. Her parents are in the middle of a divorce and there’s a lot of money hanging in the balance. Cleo races around NY trying to figure out where her mom went, and there are many potential suspects. I could not put this one down. So many plot twists! Highly recommend!

Book Court - Where I’m the Judge and Jury

Docket Page 78. Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

CHARGE (What was the author trying to say?): You can’t escape your past.

FACTS: Katrina McHugh, a successful attorney, is haunted by growing up in an orphanage. When her past physically intrudes into her present, threatening her college-age daughter Cleo, Kat must confront the actions of her past and deal with the consequences. I was not a fan of the shifting timeline. I enjoy a story told in a more chronological fashion. While the story seemed at times to move at a snail’s pace, the ending seemed rushed – quickly tying up all the loose ends into a neat (though somewhat unbelievable) package.

VERDICT (Was the author successful?): Guilty, as charged.

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This one is getting a lot of really positive reviews and I was excited to read it. The story starts off really great and I was invested in the story. Cleo's mom calls her home but when she gets there her mom is missing. There is food cooking, a bloody scene and a random shoe. This is an intro worth digging into. Sadly for me the story goes downhill from there. I did like that it is told from both women's POV's and that the timeline was not linear but I found myself bored. Considering how many positive reviews this book already has, I thought for sure it would get better but for me it just never did. This is a book that many readers will (and do) enjoy so take this review with a grain of salt.

Thanks to NetGalley, Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor, Knopf and Kimberly McCreight for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’m a sucker for a thriller and this one did not disappoint. This was a complete page turner. I really enjoyed the surprises, twists, and turns.

This book was just ok. I wished the story told more from the mother's point of view when she was living in the group home and how the older woman had adopted her. I wanted things to end badly with the husband and his movie production after the whole money issue. But you just don't know what ended up happening.

I believe this was just the book to get me back into reading! I have been in such a reading slump. I’m talking months long and McCreight grabbed my attention from the very beginning. I was constantly going back and forth in my mind of who I thought “done it”. I was totally captivated by the ending and did not see it panning out the way it did. I started realizing who it was just about 95% through but not to the exact “T”. This book will make you stay up until 3am reading to find out how it ends! 5 stars ✨ Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC. Do yourself a favor and add it to your list!

3.5 stars
The relationship between Cleo and Katrina as mother and daughter is complicated and realistic. They are both strong willed women, stuck dealing with trauma and consequences of their relationships with manipulative men.
Through Katrina’s disappearance, Cleo is able to learn more about her mothers life, and understand her on a much deeper level. While I don’t agree with a lot of the things that Katrina did, her past trauma does explain her thought process behind her decisions
This is a thriller, so I don’t want to say too much about Katrina’s disappearance and it’s outcome. There were a lot of intertwining personal relationships among characters that could be messy to keep track of; and the big twist was slightly disappointing. But still an engaging read!. .

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.