Kimberly McCreight has been one of my favorite authors for years so this was a VERY exciting approval.

A very good thriller and just what I would expect from her

"Like Mother, Like Daughter" by Kimberly McCreight presents a narrative that promises gripping mystery and complex family dynamics but falls short of delivering a truly immersive experience. While the premise holds potential, the execution leaves much to be desired, resulting in a reading experience that fails to leave a lasting impression.
Despite the promising setup, the novel struggles to maintain momentum, with a pacing that feels uneven and sluggish at times. While certain elements of the plot hold intrigue, they are overshadowed by a lack of depth in character development and an overreliance on clichéd tropes. The characters, though facing compelling challenges, fail to evoke genuine empathy or investment from the reader, resulting in a narrative that feels flat and uninspired.
Furthermore, the incorporation of flashback sequences intended to provide context and depth to the storyline often feels forced and disjointed, disrupting the flow of the narrative rather than enhancing it. These glimpses into the past, while crucial for understanding the present, ultimately detract from the overall cohesiveness of the plot.
Thank you to Knopf, Kimberly McCreight, and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my review.

OMG this will be a hit of summer 2024! I have loved Kimberly's writing ever since I read Reconstructing Amelia. Her writing is flawless and her plots are out of this world.

Mother and daughter relationships are complicated. The relationship between Kat and her daughter Cleo is fractured. Kat invites her daughter to dinner hoping a good homecooked meal opens their communication. Cleo arrives to find her mother missing. Where could Kat be? The police investigate but Cleo is not satisfied with their efforts. She undertakes her own investigation by talking to those who knew her mother. Kat worked as a lawyer, could one of her cases be dangerous? Cleo finds that she only thought she knew her mother.

Cleo finds herself in danger too. Is she being followed because she is investigating her mother's disappearance or for another reason? Life has become more complicated than Cleo could ever have imagined.

This mystery is revealed by following two timelines. One timeline begins as Kat is discovered missing and the other begins 8 days before Kat disappears. Following these timelines, the various threads of Kat and Cleo's lives begin weaving together. The conflicts between Kat and Cleo are well portrayed. Their complicated lives keep the reader guessing. This well-paced, interesting story will appeal to thriller and mystery fans.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for providing a digital copy for review.

Cleo comes home to find her mom’s bloody shoe and food burning in the oven. Kat has lots of secrets and has been lying. Cleo searches for her mom, Kat, while piecing together parts of her mother’s past. This was well written story with twists and turns I didn’t see coming.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a twisted thriller told through alternating view points in the past and present. Cleo comes home from college to have dinner with her mother to find fresh blood and her mother, Kat missing. What follows is a twisted mystery where Kat’s past secrets and her present job as a fixer makes it impossible to tell who is behind Kat’s disappearance. Cleo begins to investigate and learns that her mother is so much more than meets the eye. Unpredictable and full of suspense, Kat and Cleo’s story is a thrill ride of a page turning mystery with strong heroines. My voluntary, unbiased, and non mandatory review is based upon a review copy from NetGalley.

I haven't read a Kimberly McCreight book in a while and I forgot how much I enjoy her books. This one was really good, and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I definitely would recommend this book to people who enjoy thrillers and mysteries. It was suspenseful and exciting, and it was an original story. I also loved that it was in New York (I live in Brooklyn), and I think that the setting lent itself to the story itself. Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for this ARC!

I loved this book and the back and forth between characters! Highly recommend! She has quickly become one of my favorite authors!

My thanks to #Knopf #Pantheon #NetGalley and #KimberlyMcCreight for the ARC of #LikeMotherLikeDaughter. Absolutely captivating from the very first page, Like Mother, Like Daughter is told from the perspectives of Cleo and Kat, estranged mother and daughter. Returning home for a long overdue dinner, Cleo finds her mom missing and embarks on a search – discovering along the way that her mother isn’t who she thought she was, and her past is full of secrets. Lots of concurrent storylines and plot twists to keep it very interesting.

I can’t remember the last time I read a mystery/thriller that captivated me the way “Like Mother, Like Daughter” did. I stayed up all night reading this book!

The book is told from the dual perspectives of, you guessed it, a mother, Kat, and her college aged daughter, Cleo, with shifting timelines, too.

Cleo and Kat are estranged but trying to mend their relationship when Kat disappears out of the blue. Is it because of her past? Her job? The lengths she’s gone to lately to protect Cleo? Who knows. But Cleo seems to be the only one who can get to the bottom of it.

If you loved McCreight’s debut novel “Reconstructing Amelia”, you’ll love this, too. And it has me wanting to go back and read the rest of her backlist as well. This book will perfectly scratch the itch for fans of domestic mysteries and thrillers, and John Grisham!

I absolutely love Kimberly McCreight, she’s one of my favorite authors and this book did not disappoint! Her books are always so full of twist and turns you don’t see coming. I highly recommend this one!

A page turner told through the voices of Cleo, an NYU student and her mother, a lawyer who goes missing from her Brooklyn home on a night she invited her somewhat estranged daughter for dinner. Cleo's mother, Katrina, is not exactly who her daughter thinks she is, both in the details of her upbringing and in her present day job as a "fixer" for her law firm (not a boring patent attorney as she has told Cleo and everyone else). Cleo, with secrets of her own, has struggled to define her own identity in the shadow of her mother's perfect career persona. She must put all of her grievances aside if she wants to find her mother as the minutes and hours tick away. To complicate things further, Cleo's dad and Kat's soon to be ex-husband is not the good guy and doting father he seems to be. With alternating chapters and POVs between Cleo and Katrina, the reader is taken on twisty journey while at the same time included on the untangling of the deep and frayed threads of their mother-daughter bond. A terrific read until the very last page. Thanks to NetGalley and the Knopf for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is the first book I've read by Kimberly McCreight, and I will definitely more. There were a lot of twist and turns, and a lot of surprises. The story is about Katrina and her daughter, Clio. Katrina is a lawyer with an unconventional secret position at her law firm. Clio is a self absorbed rebellious teenager who reveres her father but doesn't get along with Katrina. The story is about projecting a persona to our family members and others, and the reality of what our lives and emotions really are. Once Clio saw Katrina as she really was, Clio discovered they weren't really all that different.

The story is written from two points of view - Cleo and Katrina - and in dual timelines. It took a lot of effort to keep the POV and timelines straight. Little pieces of the character development were doled out as the book went along. At times the book lagged as it jumped from character to character. All of the twists and turns were tied together by the end, ultimately concluding with a satisfactory ending.

When I saw a new book by the author of the excellent Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found Her, I jumped at the chance to read it. Like Mother, like Daughter centers around Katrina (Mother) and Cleo (Daughter). Their relationship is contentious due to Katrina’s control issues and Cleo’s rebellion. When Katrina goes missing, Cleo will do anything to find her.

It took me an incredibly long time to get through this. The story is told in dual points of view—Katrina in the time leading up to her disappearance and Cleo in the present trying to piece together what happened to her mom. Interspersed between chapters are press releases, diary entries, text messages, and therapy transcripts. There are also a ton on characters and side plots which I felt made the story plodding instead of driving it forward.

While searching for her mom, Cleo begins to learn a lot about her mom and realizes she doesn’t really know her. Her job is a little bit different than she thought and her past is a lot worse than she knew. Cleo makes a lot of bad decisions and ultimately puts herself in danger. The ending somewhat ties up everything once we find out what happened to Katrina but it took so long to get there that I just didn’t care.

3 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own

I love a good twisty thriller book, and this one definitely delivered! I was drawn in right away in Chapter 1 when college student Cleo comes home to find a bloody shoe, burning food, and no sign of her mother, Katrina. As Cleo investigates her mother's disappearance, the suspense keeps building and I was eagerly anticipating what might be coming next.

The plot was compelling and had just enough twists to keep me guessing. The characters of Cleo and Katrina were well-developed and realistic, and it felt like reading about people I actually know versus just being book characters. The mother-daughter conflicts were realistic and relatable, which drew me even more into the story.

The only (minor) downside was that this book just had a lot going on and it sometimes got a little hard to keep track of. The narration bounces back and forth between Cleo and Katrina across a few different timelines, but then also has clips of things like therapy transcripts, legal documents, etc. which sometimes felt like were pulling my focus away from the actual storyline. Similarly, while Cleo and Katrina were very well-developed characters, there were quite a few smaller characters in the book and it was sometimes difficult to keep them all straight.

Overall, though, this was a fun read and I would definitely recommend it!

There were too many story lines and jumping around. I didn’t like any of the characters and just couldn’t connect with the story to care. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

Lots of twists and turns tharlt kept me interested bit slow going at times. The dual time line makes for a good story.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC

As a fan of this author, I am always down for her twists and turns. This one did leave me guessing for the most part, but the twist was for sure satisfying! There were some things I felt could’ve been elaborated on a smidge more; it kind of felt like some things were just cut off? Either way, this still got 4 stars for the plot and the main plot points of each character

There are a lot of characters, multiple timelines and various “source materials” ie text messages, published articles, court documents, journal entries. This made for an interesting delivery, but at times I found myself thinking “wait who is this again”

While I feel like I am in the minority with this novel, the premise is interesting; plot is solid, ending was a little anti climatic.

Overall - if you’re new to thrillers, go for it!

good book. Interesting with hard to figure out story. very enjoyable and I would recommend to anyone