⭐️3.5
The relationship is already tense, at best, with her mother Kat. Cleo finally agrees to dinner, but upon entering her home, the oven is on, there’s blood, and no mom.

Kat is a workaholic attorney with a sketchy past. Cleo is a college student with a bad picker-an ex boyfriend with a dangerous streak. Mother and daughter have a complicated relationship and can’t seem to repair old hurts.

The story starts off with a bang, but the plot contained so many side stories, therapist’s notes, texts, etc., that it was hard for me to follow. It became tedious and lengthy in the middle, which unfortunately did not work for me.

The ending twist was great and the pieces came together, so overall a good domestic thriller.

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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Pub date: July 30, 2024

I enjoyed this book This had a lot of suspects and you weren't sure who you could believe. This was a fast paced thriller that I enjoyed. Thank you NetGally and the Publisher for the ARC.

First I would like to thank Netgalley and Knopf for the ARC of this novel.

This was my first Kimberly McCreight novel and it won’t me my last. I loved this book so much. It was so compelling and I just couldn’t put it down. I read the entire thing in less than 24 hours it was that good.

I loved the complicated dynamic between mother and daughter. It was done so well and also felt so real. On top of that you had the thriller aspect of the book that kept me turning the page.

The twists were great and I didn’t see the ending coming. I will say there were a couple of moments that I saw coming but overall I really, really enjoyed the book and I can’t wait for it to come out so I can share it with others.

A very, very enjoyable 4.5/5 stars.

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Reconstruction Amelia by Kimberly McCreight was one of my favorite books of all time. I have since read everything that she writes. As a mom of adult daughters, I completely related to the mother/daughter relationship in the book and the complexities that it hold. This book was definitely a page turner for me and I couldn't wait for my reading time each night. Very well written, easy to read, entertaining!

I really liked this book. I loved the way Kimberly McCreight told this story. The characters were believable and the twists took me by surprise. It grabbed me from the start and didn't let go until the very end. This is my first book I have read by Kimberly McCreight but it will not be my last. I look forward to reading more of her books. HIghly recommend!



Thank you Netgalley and Knopf for the digital arc and allowing me to share my thoughts.

Cleo gets home from college to have dinner with her mother, Kat, and finds her mom’s bloody shoe in the house. This mother and daughter have had a rocky relationship mainly due to Cleo’s poor choice in men she chooses to date, and Kat going out of her way to protect Cleo. Now that Kat is missing, Cleo seems to have some regrets about how things have gone down with her and her mother. Cleo does everything she can to try to find her mom and ends up digging up secrets from Kat’s traumatic past as an orphan and finds out what kind of work her lawyer mother is actually involved in. Cleo also begins to realize her dad (Kat’s soon to be ex) has also been keeping secrets that are now going to put a wedge between Cleo and her dad. He also keeps asking Kat for money.

This book was compelling, and I could not put it down! The twist really fooled me. It’s written from both Cleo and Kat’s perspectives in different timelines with transcripts from therapy sessions, text message threads, and news articles sprinkled in between. I thought it was easy to follow and I was eager to find out how the story would unravel. I enjoyed this writing style and how fast faced the book was. I would recommend this to people looking for a domestic thriller even if you don’t care about the emphasis on mother/daughter relationships.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for the opportunity to read this ARC. All opinions are my own.

Amother and daughter find new appreciation and understanding for each other when their lives are threatened.

When New York University student Cleo shows up at her mother Katrina’s Park Slope house for dinner, she finds signs of a struggle—and her mother’s shoe covered in blood. Mother and daughter had been estranged since Katrina interfered in Cleo’s relationship with a white-collar drug dealer, but Cleo instantly snaps into action, determined to find her mother. Aided by a sympathetic cop and hindered by her lackadaisical father (who’s separated from her mother), Cleo investigates her mom’s computer as well as her place of business. Katrina had always led Cleo to believe she was a patent attorney, but it turns out she was a fixer for wealthy and powerful people. She was also, in her youth, an abandoned child who lived at Haven House until she was adopted at the age of 14. Cleo finds her mother’s journal from those years and feels appalled—and guilty—to read about the abuse her mother endured. As Cleo is drawn deeper and deeper into the details of her mother’s life and disappearance, she herself may be in danger. McCreight alternates first-person chapters about Cleo’s search with chapters in Katrina’s voice about the days leading up to her disappearance, and also includes the occasional transcript of a therapy session, journal entry, or legal document connected to one of Katrina’s big cases. The build-up is extremely well paced and effective, created brick by suspenseful brick. No one, of course, is who they seem. Eventually the two main narratives converge in a somewhat flat climax—but most of the loose threads are satisfactorily tied up. Both Katrina and Cleo are tough as nails and vulnerable as hell, which makes it easy to root for them both against all the forces of (mostly masculine) evil they have to combat.

A smart, complex domestic thriller.

An easy, bingeable "popcorn" read! This is not my first Kimberly McCreight book and definitely won't be my last. A domestic thriller that is set between alternating timelines of the alternating timelines of the past and present. In the past, the reader follows Kat, a corporate "fixer" (think Olivia Pope) who finds herself entangled in a complex web of corporate misdoing, a complicated marriage, and a strained relationship with her college-aged daughter, Cleo. In the present timeline, Cleo is struggling to figure out what happened to her mother, after returning home from college to an empty apartment.

As a domestic thriller, "Like Mother, Like Daughter" is an easy read. Sure, it isn't hyper-realistic and there are some annoying plot holes and easily deduced red herrings, it was still a fun book to read out by the pool or on the beach.

A daughter comes to dinner but finds her mother is missing. She tries to find her mother but finds instead a puzzle of who her mother really was.

This was my second Kimberly McCreight book and I had similar feelings about both books. The endings, with their twist and fast moving pace the the best part! Like Mother, Like Daughter is a slow moving plot and gave just enough details to create questions about what everyone was hiding, made everyone a suspect and had me wondering how everything was going to come together. This was a relatively quick, easy read that kept my attention and ended on a high note for me; even still, it wasn't a book that blew me away or one I would be thinking about for months after.
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Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Random House for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Kimberly McCreight’s Reconstructing Amelia was a stunner and her Like Mother, Like Daughter may have even topped it! This was a “can’t put down” alternating POV story with multiple timelines and despicable characters. Perfect combination for a summer read!

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Looking for a classic beach read thriller? Add this to your summer TBR! It has all of the components of a good thriller: missing pieces, shady characters, twist plots that finally unravel in the last 10% of the book, and a "didn't see that coming!" moment somewhere around 75%.

That being said, it's all a little much. Too many crisscrossed paths, too many sordid tales, too many secrets that are unbelievable. The story is fast paced and keeps you hooked, and for those reasons I would recommend it for anyone just looking for their next read. Is it on the top of my must reads list? Nope. But a solid 3 stars for this one.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a giant puzzle-the picture doesn't come into focus for awhile, then you find that one piece that makes everything crystal clear. Like Mother, Like Daughter relies on multiple POV's and zigzags between time lines-it can be confusing but works beautifully in the skillful hands of Kimberly McCreight. The plot features a missing person, possible murder, corporate espionage, infidelity-there's really enough here for multiple stories but they're all related. Mostly a character driven story, Like Mother, Like Daughter will have you scratching your head trying to tie it all together, but the answer is literally staring you in the face. Intense and emotional, Like Mother, Like Daughter is expected to be one of the best selling books of 2024, and it definitely lives up to the pre-publication excitement.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER by Kimberly McCreight
⭐️ rating: 9/10

read if you like:
👯‍♂️ mother/daughter dramas
🤔 missing people
🧑‍🔧books about fixers
🖐🏼 multiple timelines & POV’s

summary:
I loved RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA and when I got selected to preview Kimberly McCreight’s next book, I was excited to get started. And wow this did not disappoint. This is about a woman, Katrina and her daughter, Cleo, living in NYC. One night as Cleo is coming home for dinner, she finds her mother gone, with only a bloody shoe left in her otherwise intact home. Cleo takes it on herself to find out what happened to her mother, and why? Katrina, who grew up as a foster child and now works as a “fixer” for a law firm in Manhattan, has a number of potential enemies, but do any of them have anything to do with her disappearance?

This book is written from Cleo’s POV after the disappearance and Katrina’s POV leading up to the disappearance, interspersed with text conversations, press releases and journal entries from Katrina as a child, woven brilliantly together. While the story naturally jumps aback and forth pre and post disappearance, you get to learn a lot about both Cleo and Katrina. It reflects on the relationship between mothers and daughters, and how much they share, communicate and be honest with each other. I also love the authors use of various conflicts/red herrings in this, as it keeps you guessing on what will matter and what won’t in the books ultimate end. Much like her other books, the end does come as a surprise and has a complexity that keeps it interesting!

Thanks to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor and Net Galley for the advanced preview! Definitely check this book out when it releases on July 30!

Like Mother, Like Daughter uses an interesting device to tell the story. Setting stories with flashbacks and variable chronology is not new, but McCreight uses the format well to add suspense. Of course, the flip side is that it is sometimes hard to keep up with WHEN things are happening. I find that my Kindle reads don't lend themselves well to that, as I can't flip back a few pages to check on something as I do with print books! Fortunately the story was plenty intriguing enough to keep me engaged throughout. True to the title, the story is ultimately about a mother and a daughter and their relationship, which I found interesting and moving. The push-pull dynamic of that relationship was depicted well. All the intrigue of the mystery of the missing mother is well-done and not TOO easy to predict. It was a very enjoyable read, and I recommend it.

Thanks to Netgalley and Knopf for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for a complimentary copy of this novel!

Kat is a successful lawyer who “fixes” things for clients. Up until the age of 14, she grew up in an orphanage. Kat’s past and present seem a bit shady and neither her daughter, Cleo nor soon-to-be ex-husband, Aiden know all the details. Cleo is Kat and Aiden’s daughter. She is in college, but lately has been running around with a guy named Kyle who deals drugs. Kat finds out and threatens him to leave her daughter alone. Now that Cleo is done with Kyle, she is seeing Will, a much better mannered guy. Aiden is a floundering filmmaker looking to get his hands on Kat’s 3.5 million inheritance. He also has secrets of his own. Now, Kat’s pasts is catching up to her as she is dealing with a difficult case. On top of everything, she goes missing. And the suspects are numerous, including her own husband, Aiden and even Cleo her daughter.

This author is new to me, and I enjoyed reading her this novel! I felt it started out slow, but picked up and the revelations were unexpected. I look forward to more novels from this author. AVAILABLE July 30, 2024

3.5 stars
Mystery thriller about a young woman and her mother, who have always had a pretty rocky relationship. Daughter is invited for dinner but the mother has disappeared, leaving behind a bloody shoe. Complicated novel about family secrets and bad behavior on the personal and corporate level.

The story was pretty good but had too many plot elements going on at once. In addition, the story was told from the POV of both mother and daughter, which helped add to the suspense, but also included transcripts from a therapist, legal documents, texts, etc.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a free e-ARC of this book.

This book was quite the twisting thriller with a very surprising ending. The story was told by mother and daughter with flashbacks to the past. I liked that the book kept me wondering what would happen next. There were a lot of characters and it was sometimes hard for me to keep them straight. The characters are well portrayed. Not all of them were likable and the reasons for that were well done. I received an arc of this book from NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions expressed are my own.

A huge thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the opportunity to read an advance copy of "Like Mother, Like Daughter" in exchange for an honest review.

"Like Mother, Like Daughter" is a domestic thriller that shows just how far a mother (Kat) will go to protect her daughter (Cleo), despite their fractured relationship.

Kat is a fixer. The one thing she can't seem to fix is her relationship with her daughter. While attempting to make amends, Kat invites her daughter over for dinner. Upon Cleo's arrival, she finds dinner in the oven, blood on the ground, and no Kat. Thus, the story begins to divert into separate timelines and POVs. Kat's journey begins 8 days prior to her disappearance, while Cleo's timeline takes place the hours following her discovery at her family home.

For me, the story filled me with confusion. There was so much going on in terms of plot where it was hard to keep the pieces together. We are learning of Kat's job and history that connects with the man she's newly dating, plus her husband having an affair and her being blackmailed for her past? I told you it's a lot. While the pieces all do come together in the end (albeit in a very messy way), it felt as it was too much to enjoy the actual thriller and suspense of the novel.

The characterization wasn't the focus of the book which isn't a terrible thing but sometimes it felt like the characters themselves got lost in the shuffle of the massive plot that continued to carry through the novel.

The twist at the end was....great. It was unexpected. It was strong. When it did happen, it was far too late and far too little to help save us from drowning in the details of McCreight's latest. McCreight is a strong writer but felt she tried to do too much in this domestic thriller.

Cleo returns home from NYU for dinner with her mother, Kat. They have been at odds recently, but Cleo arrives to an empty house. She discovers a burning dinner, blood on the kitchen floor, and a bloodied shoe. Kat, a lawyer by day, secretly works as a fixer for her firm. Previously, Kat forced Cleo to break up with her drug-dealing boyfriend. The narrative unfolds, revealing the complexities of Cleo, Kat, and Kat's estranged husband. The story is rife with twists and turns; Kat's extensive network from her fixer role comes to light, while Cleo, oblivious to her mother's true occupation, embarks on a quest to find her. The tale alternates between Kat's perspective before her disappearance and Cleo's after she begins her search.