Like Mother, Like Daughter alternates between the two points of view—Kat, the mother and Cleo, the daughter as they each narrate events leading up to and just after Kat’s disappearance.

Kat and Cleo used to be close, but their relationship is strained as Cleo, a sophomore at NYU, now finds her mother a bit suffocating. Her intense dislike for her last boyfriend didn’t help things either. Kat, has a history her daughter knows nothing about as a child raised for the most part in the foster care system. Her upbringing helps make her particularly good at her corporate job as a “fixer” for a prestigious law firm in New York City. Their relationship will be tested to the limits when Kat mysteriously disappears, and Cleo attempts to find out what happened to her mother.

The two perspectives bridge the gap to the moment everything went wrong and eventually reveal all the details that led to that fateful evening. This twisty tale is filled with a ton of red herrings that will keep readers guessing to the very end. Like Mother, Like Daughter is a fast paced and suspenseful ride that will force readers to ignore their bedtime to get to the last page.

Thank you to NetGalley, Knopf, and the author Kimberly McCreight for the advanced copy of the book. Like Mother, Like Daughter is out tomorrow! All opinions are my own.

This book was a little more difficult for me to read. It didn't really grab my attention and get me invested like I had hoped it would.

There are a lot of twists and turns in this book, but unfortunately, I had a few of them figured out. I did, however, enjoy all of the twists and the fact that the teenage daughter was doing the investigating. This is one of the few books where kids were the ones trying to figure out what was going on.

This book has multiple subplots going on throughout the book, which is maybe why I couldn't get invested. There was almost too much going on throughout the book, like maybe there were multiple stories being told. I think if there was less going on, or this story be made into multiple books (each book has it's own POV's) it would have been easier to get invested and follow along.

I did enjoy this book though, and the author has a great writing style (use of words), just not very memorable.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a fast-paced suspenseful read. It centers around the tumultuous and currently fractured relationship between a mother (Kat) and her daughter (Cleo). Except for similarities in their appearance, they seem to be polar opposites in every way.

Cleo, a college student at NYU, begrudgingly agrees to meet her mother at home for dinner. But when she arrives, the house is in disarray - food is burning in the kitchen, things are tossed about, and her mother's bloody shoe is found by the sofa. But where is Kat and who could have done this? Her mom may be too interfering and judgmental about Cleo's life choices for Cleo's liking, but she is a well-respected attorney at a good law firm, and her parents' marriage is a good one. Or so she's been led to believe. Not content to leave things in the hands of the police and spurred by regret and a need to do something to help find her mother, Cleo begins looking into things herself. What she finds is that nothing she thought she knew is as it seems.

McCreight has written a well-plotted novel with rich characters, especially Kat and Cleo. The story is told in two POVs and timelines: Cleo's in current time, and Kat's in the days leading up to her disappearance. The relationship between mother and daughter is portrayed quite realistically. The only thing that didn't ring true to me is the amount of Cleo's involvement in the case. I willingly overlook that however in support of the enjoyable read overall.

I enjoyed reading this book which kept me engaged from start to finish. I rate it 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars.

My thanks to Knopf for allowing me access to a DRC via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own and are freely given. Publication is 7/30/24.

Loved this book so much!!! I wish I could read it again and again for the first time. Usually I get a sense of who is responsible for the crime about 2/3 through a book but I had no idea until the page before this time. Going to the author's event later this week - can't wait to hear more about the process. Highly recommend!

It was fine but never once was I invested in the story. There are a lot of red herrings in here, lot of possibilities of what's going on. I don't feel like it fully wrapped up either, there are questions I still have.
Also, I really hate the plot line of "20 something daughter is pissed because she doesn't know every fact about her mom's life." And that in with the "mom is the worst, and I trust dad 100% even though he literally did the bare minimum my entire life, he got to be the fun parent while mom had to be the responsible one. Ugh she's the worst." It just makes Cleo a dumb cliche.
There are no good characters in this book. Not a single person worth supporting.

Meh. I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. This was a suspense story, heavy on the suspense. The writing was great and I enjoyed the twists. I just could not get into the teen daughter investigating though. Step back and let the detective do her job! This was an interesting story but a tad overdone. Sometimes, less is more. My thanks to the publisher for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

I was pleasantly surprised by this one! I was hooked from the start, and found myself frantically turning the pages trying to figure out what had happened, and how all of the pieces of the puzzle would come together. Highly recommend if you're looking for a smart thriller.

I think this was a 3/5 star read for me. There are two alternating POVs that helped maintain my interest although I will admit sometimes I found myself overwhelmed with everything that was occurring between these two characters. Not to mention there were other subplots happening simultaneously that one needed to keep track of as well. Unlike Friends Like These, I did find the pace to be much better. All in all, it didn’t reach the level of appreciation and admiration I had for the book A Good Marriage. The author writes well but has failed to really captivate me the way she did with A Good Marriage. It was an enjoyable read, but just not as memorable.
Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for a copy in return for my honest thoughts.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest thriller by a favorite, Kimberly McCreight. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.5 stars rounded up!

Cleo has a difficult relationship with her mother, Kat, but is shocked to come home to find a scary scene and her mother missing. She starts looking into a few things on her own apart from the police investigation, and soon discovers that she didn't know her mom like she imagined.

There is a lot going on in this novel, and it requires some concentration to keep it all straight in your mind; at least it did for me. But it's well worth the effort, because McCreight has once again crafted a multi-layered thriller with so many themes about motherhood, and especially the mother/daughter relationship. I'm always happy when fictional relationships between parent and child aren't all sunshine and light, but show us real feelings. I would suggest going into reading this book as blind as possible and left my synopsis short on purpose. Told from mostly the POV of Kat and Cleo, I loved the way the author also used therapy and legal transcripts, news reports, etc., to add critical elements to the story. Another highly recommended book by this author!

Like Mother, Like Daughter is my first Kimberly McCreight novel and won’t be my last. It is fast-paced, told in dual POV, two timelines, multi-layered and emotional. There are transcripts from therapy sessions, emails, articles and journal passages breaking up the story. The love/hate relationship between mother and daughter was portrayed very well. The way the suspense and tension were executed captivated me, however the end was a bit anticlimactic. It’s still a good story and I enjoyed it. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4!

Thank you NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

#NetGalley #likemotherlikedaughter #kimberlymccreight

This was a fast-paced, twisty, dual POV mystery thriller about a rocky relationship between a mother and daughter and the way they grow closer when the mother goes mysteriously missing and the daughter is determined to find out what happened.

I loved how this book was structured alternating from the past and present we see how the controling lawyer mother alienates her independent daughter, driving her away and how her marriage falls apart too. There's also past trauma we slowly learn about from a rape incident in the mother's past that comes back to haunt her in the present.

Moving and shocking in equal parts and great on audio read by in real life mother-daughter duo, Olivia and Cassandra Campbell with an ending I didn't see coming! Highly recommended for fans of authors like Gillian McAllister. This was my first book by Kimberly McCreight and definitely won't be my last! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy and @prhaudio for a complimentary ALC in exchange for my honest review!!

CW: rape

I picked this book up and set it down too many times to count. I finally finished it and was underwhelmed. I liked the dual POV'S. The characters were intriguing at first. Then it seemed to become predictable and I lost interest. I struggled to finish this one.

This was a very addicting story from the start. I couldn't wait to see what happened Kat. If you like your book filled with mystery and suspense you'll love this book. Highly recommend!


Many thanks for my gifted copy!

Overall, fast paced, addictive mystery/thriller that exams the nature of the relationship between a mother and a daughter alongside a missing person.

Told in two different POVs on two slightly different timelines, the reader is left wondering what happened when Kat went missing right up until the very end. Lots of misdirection as there are a few subplots at play (one of which was kind of confusing for me) but all mostly intersect in the end.

I really enjoyed seeing Cleo from all angles and seeing how the story transformed her beliefs and maybe even her values by the end. It was kind of hard to like Kat at times because she did seem so meddling, but by the end you realize Kat is very hard on herself and every time a misstep happened in her family she was ultimately blaming herself and her own ineptness at being a good mother...something many mothers do.

I enjoyed it and would certainly read more by this author.

⭐️(2/5) Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight

✨Pages: 320

✨Genre: Thriller

I was so excited for this new summer thriller (out 07/30), as I loved “Friends Like These” and enjoyed “Reconstructing Amelia” & “Where They Found Her” by this author. But unfortunately this missed the mark for me.

Cleo has been at odds with her seemingly perfect mother Kat for a while now, resenting her for her meddling while she’s in college. Summoned home to Brooklyn from NYU for a talk, Cleo can’t find her mother-but finds blood. She begins digging, finding out there was so much about her mother that she didn’t know.

I enjoyed the dual perspectives of both Kat and Cleo, getting to know them both. I also liked the concept of shattering the perfect image you have of your parent when you finally recognize that they exist separate from motherhood. I just didn’t buy that this realization was coming to Cleo so late in life! I would have bought this more if she was still in high school. I found the excerpts of therapy sessions a bit forced, not quite propelling the story the way they were intended to. There was bit too much going on as well: Kat’s secret career, Cleo’s drug dealing ex boyfriend, Kat’s marriage, two different timelines and POVs….it culminated to being a fine but muddled forgettable thriller for me.

✨Content Warnings: Rape, Infidelity, Adult/Minor Relationship, Domestic Abuse, Suicide

✨Themes: Motherhood, Family, Secrets

This mother/daughter pair has been at odds and mostly estranged for quite some time when Cleo, the daughter agrees to have dinner with her mother, Kat. When Cleo shows up at her mother’s apartment, all she finds is a bloody shoe. While the police are treating the disappearance as a missing person incident, Cleo decides to begin her own investigation. It turns out that Kat possibly has many enemies. Although Kat works at a prestigious law firm, Cleo discovers that she is the firm’s fixer and has at least a couple of clients who are displeased with her services. Then, there is Katz’s mysterious past growing up in a group home in which something bad happened. Both the police and Cleo have some suspicions around Cleo’s father for various reasons and finally, Kat has been threatened by Cleo’s former drug dealer boyfriend and has been receiving blackmailing texts from an unknown source.
The story is told in alternating POVs and time frames, from Kat’s perspective leading up to her disappearance and Cleo’s after her mother goes missing. The author does a good job of portraying Cleo’s feelings of guilt and regret over the relationship between the women and her determination to make things right by finding Kat. I enjoyed the aspect of so many secrets and layers to the backgrounds of both characters that the possibilities of what happened to Kat were numerous, pulling the reader in many different directions. I liked the twist at the end and figured out who the guilty party was right before he/she was revealed. While I enjoyed Cleo’s ingenuity, I found her investigations a bit too far-fetched. But overall, this was an enjoyable read.

"People don't have to admit the whole truth to reveal the part that matters"

Hooked from the start. Cleo arrives to her childhood home to have dinner with her mom. They've been arguing a lot lately, while Cleo is away at college, and she isn't excited to be there. But, her mom isn't there. There's dinner burning in the oven, a smashed glass on the floor, there's blood and a shoe.

This kicks off the story. The chapters vary - you have chapters from Cleo's perspective and they are the "now", and you have chapters from the mom's POV - from the days leading up to her disappearance. It was such a compelling story, I couldn't help but flip the pages, wanting to know more. The mother and daughter's struggles to agree and the arguing they'd been doing, you can just feel the regret on every page.

But Cleo's mom has been keeping secrets and Cleo is determined to learn them. I loved the adventure of the story. All the twists weren't a surprise but they were well placed and I enjoyed this story. Well told, plotted, and paced. I loved it!

A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

There is a LOT going on in this book. Two points of view (mother and daughter), therapist notes, text conversations, legal documents, and journal entries. There is the before and after the mother's disappearance, as well as the distant past. It's honestly a lot to keep track of - which makes this a good book to binge or to read when you know you have time to devote to this book. You don't want to put it down and pick it up days later, unless you're really good at keeping track of many characters and plot points. That being said, it's fast paced and interesting, so maybe you won't want to put it down in the first place.

Thanks to NetGalley for early access to this book.

Like mother, like daughter is a much hyped suspense thriller of the summer season. Cleo and her mother Katrina have a strained relationship and struggle to understand one another-especially in the wake of a divorce between Katrina and her husband. Cleo arrives to Katrina’s late for dinner as usual one and finds her mom missing and all that is left is a bloody shoe. Believing her mother to be in danger,
Cleo tries to find out what happened to her and finds much more than she bargained for on her quest for the truth.

Told in alternating pov between Cleo and Katrina and through various timelines, the heart of this story is truly the relationship between mother and daughter. As a thriller, the novel is suspenseful and information is slowly revealed. The pacing is pretty good-but I feel like there are parts where it dragged a bit. Overall, a well- done thriller that will please thriller fans and gain McCreight new fans!

Thanks to the publisher for providing this arc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a great read. Started off strong and kept my interest.

Cleo thinks she knows her strict, boring mother. But when she suddenly vanishes, Cleo quickly learns she knew very little about the woman she calls “mom”.

This book is great for mystery fans.

Thanks to #netgalley for the advanced copy #likemotherlikedaughter