✨3 stars ✨

cleo and her mother, kat haven’t gotten along since she was a child. kat is over protective, suspicious, and doesn’t know how to let cleo learn for herself. but when kat goes missing, cleo learns everything her mother has kept hidden from her. she desperately tries to find her alive, wanting to fix their relationship before it is too late.

this book was such a fun and quick read! i was easily invested and wanting to follow along with both timelines, kat before the incident and cleo immediately coming across the scene. while it’s not my favorite, i think if you’re in the mood to read a mystery/thriller this will be a great fix.

if i could change anything, i think narrowing down the character list and background details would be helpful. there were almost too many possible solutions to the mystery, and at times it got overwhelming.

Cleo, a college student at NYU, thinks she knows her perfect, controlling and judgmental mother, until she arrives at her family home for a reconciliation dinner to find food burning in the oven and her mother’s bloody shoe. This fast-paced novel follows Cleo as she races to find her missing mother, uncovering secrets from her mother’s past and present.

Secretly separated from Cleo’s narcissistic dad, Aiden, and embroiled in dangerous secrets as her law firm’s corporate fixer, Kat’s present secrets collide with the secrets from her past, putting her in the crosshairs of someone who is desperate enough to hurt her or possibly kill her. And Cleo seems to be the only person racing to figure it all out. As she does, she learns that she and her mother may share a lot more than either of them could ever have imagined.

Told from the perspective of Cleo and Kat, both in the present and near and distant past, the story moves with breakneck speed toward a final twist, that, even if you might have seen it coming, is still shocking.

I enjoyed the author’s development of mother and daughter characters (both Kat and Cleo and two other mother/daughter relationships which reflected and contrasted with the main characters) whose difficult relationship was nuanced and added to the suspense in this domestic thriller.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for the opportunity to read an advanced review copy.

Great book! I couldn’t put it down. Books with alternating points of view are my some of my favorites. I thought Katrina was a very interesting character. The twists were great!! Looking forward to reading more books by this author.

I really enjoyed the beginning of this book! However, I felt some things at the end were predictable, and I also thought there were too many random things thrown in that didn’t work with the plot. (Some of the texts, Cleo’s ex BF, Janine, etc.)

This is a real page turner. Once I got started I really had trouble getting anything else done. Kat's life has so many facets you really can't tell which one to focus on. Is someone from her past responsible for disappearance? Or is it about her job? Her daughter? Her husband? Once you wade through all the possible suspects, the ending is still a surprise.

This is a riveting thought-provoking thriller. I enjoyed being stumped to the very end with this one. Kat is a lawyer who handles problem situations for her firm.. She is also mom to Cleo. a college student whose behavior and boyfriend choices leave much to be desired. There is Cleo's dad, the soon to be ex-husband, who is among the list of suspects in Kat's disapperance. We have so much to dissect and the author does a great job laying out all the information. I devoured this book. I thought I knew the culprit. I even thought I knew the outcome, but nope. I was wrong. And I am not the least bit upset about being wrong. I love a mom who fights for her kid. I don't like bratty kids. especially kids who are old enough to know better, but that character trait added to the drama. I loved this book.!

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for an e-arc in exchange for an unbiased review.

Thank you so much for this ARC!

A very interesting synopsis - what's not intriguing about a "fixer"?! The mother/daughter tension is this book is really great, very realistic and to experience the conflict from a dual point of view (and at different points of time) made the read enjoyable.

I did not love the subplots, felt more like filler than an actual contribution to the story. The sub plots have nothing to do with the ending and it left me a bit unsatisfied but it was still an exciting distraction.

I love a thriller that can hook me right from the beginning! This was a well developed, twisty thriller right from the start! Every few chapters I was questioning who the suspects could be! Enjoyed this one! Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

From the moment I read the first few words to this book to the very last few, it sucked me right in page after page! Showing the dynamic of the two, mother and daughter, both individually and together was powerful. As much as I wanted to give this book a 5, I had to drop it down one due to how predictable it was. But it doesn’t take away from how great this story and mystery was!

2.5/5 stars. Overall, I'd say Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight is a book worth reading, but only if you don't have a book in mind you'd like to read.

A very quick read, Like Mother, Like Daughter is a decent thriller. However, the first 40% of the book was not captivating for me in the slightest; it was all about getting through it and hoping it would get better. As I hit the 50% mark and the action started to happen and the story thickened I did become engaged and curious as to what was happening. The last 25% was really good, but I don't know if I'd say it's a convincing reason to read the whole story. It is a quick read though so up to you!

Hello.

The beginning of the story was very slow. After Chapter 9: Cleo, the story starts to pick up. The story is about a mother and daughter having a strained relationship. The mother, Katrina disappears and the daughter, Cleo slowly learns about her past. The story is intriguing but fizzles out at the end. The middle of the story had a momentum that kept me wanting to read more but the ending is not satisfying at all. It is very anticlimactic.

They are two viewpoints throughout the book: Cleo's and Katrina's. As the story unfolded, I wanted to find out what happened to Katrina. Was it Cleo's drug dealing boyfriend, Kyle who threatened Katrina or even Janine, Katrina's friend who had something to do with her disappearance? The ending was unexpected and just did not match the interesting plotline.

Edit To Add: I edited the review in GoodReads and added more details.

A relatively good read with an interesting plot. I was not sure what to expect when I picked this one up but it was good! The first half was kind of slow before picking up in the second half. The characters weren’t overly likable, but they were tolerable enough to continue reading. There were times where I thought about not finishing, but I am happy I stuck with it. I was surprised by the ending!

I had just finished this compelling book when I saw a post of a beautiful Park Slope New York home. I love when books expose me to places I have never been, and wham there was the picture I hadn't been able to formulate in my mind. As NYU student Cleo tells her story, she talks a lot about her Park Slope childhood. Cleo and her mother Kat, have been estranged for a while, when she agreed to come home for dinner and found only a bloody shoe .
This was a good story of a the stress of a mother and daughter relationship and the secrets everyone keeps.
McCreight crafted a really good mystery with believable characters. Thanks to Knopf , the author and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

very similar to the author's previous book, a good marriage, i loved the complex characters of this one, bonus points that it's based in NYC! what i like most is that the ending wasn't predictable until like 80% through! plot a bit complicated but not disorganized. only thing i didn't like was the excerpts (psych notes, reddit, etc.) i feel it didn't really add much and contributed to being complicated than it needed to be.

Kimberly McCreight absolutely kills within her genre. From being captivated years ago by Reconstructing Amelia to giving my first ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ thriller review for A Good Marriage, I read every word she writes. Not to mention she's one of the coolest human beings ever. Anyone who follows her on social media knows this to be true.

How lucky was I to get an advanced copy of Like Mother, Like Daughter? (Thank you @netgalley! I always feel like such a publishing insider when this happens.)

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a story of relationships - between parents and children, husbands and wives, friends and lovers - set among a backdrop of corporate espionage, drugs, and murder. A Type A mother with secrets both past and present goes missing. Her disaffected daughter embarks on a mission to unearth the truth and find her mom.

The prologue in and of itself is ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ -worthy. McCreight brilliantly evokes the emotional roller coaster that is motherhood in just a couple of pages. While the ending left me a bit unsatisfied, I recommend you read this one. It's a gripping page turner that beautifully blends mystery and emotion.

"Like Mother, Like Daughter" by Kimberly McCreight is an exhilarating journey. McCreight masterfully keeps readers on the edge of their seats, skillfully weaving intricate stories within stories. The narrative's intensity and the characters' desperate quest to protect their loved ones make this a gripping and emotionally charged read.

*4.5 stars rounded up*

When something bad happens to someone you love but are fighting with, it makes things that much worse…

Cleo is a college student at NYU & her mother, Kat, lives in Brooklyn & is a lawyer living a picture-perfect life with Cleo’s father. Things are strained between them since Cleo doesn’t always conform to Kat’s high standards, & before they can patch things up Kat goes missing. The police are immediately called due to the blood found in their home, & as a detective & Cleo herself do some investigating they find out that Kat has many, many secrets - & so does Cleo’s dad…

This book had echoes of Karin Slaughter’s Pieces of Her but is definitely its own gripping thriller - told with multiple timelines & alternating between Cleo & Kat, you’re able to really dive into this complicated mother-daughter relationship. The examination of both of their childhoods versus where they are currently gives readers a lot to think about, especially how we perceive things as children compared to how we can really examine & understand more about events as adults. I also enjoyed that you got to read articles, diary entries, & therapy transcripts mixed into the story, & loved the complex commentary on motherhood. There was one plot point that I wasn’t wild about, but I completely understand why the author made that choice as it’s definitely shocking.

Thank you to NetGalley & Knopf for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The letter to libraians/reviewers in Like Mother, Like Daughter says that this book was bought in a highly contested auction and I disregarded it because, quite frankly, this is said on a fairly regular basis.

But wow!

I can see why this book was one every publisher wanted because it is outstanding! Kimberly McCreight is definitely a go-to for wonderful thrillers centered around women and family, and this is her best since A Good Marriage. It's just an incredible look at the bonds mothers and daughters share and how they can be twisted and stretched but, if there's a good relationship at the core, they can never be broken. I love this book so much and I can't wait to recommend it to readers my library system!

This one grabbed me right away. I had trouble putting it down. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

I have liked books by Kimberly McCreight in the past, (Reconstructing Amelia, Where They Found Her), and I really enjoyed this new one. Told in alternating POVs, each chapter of Chloe’s search and Kat’s history gave cleverly revealed clues. I was guessing throughout the book and I thought the end was great.

Thank you to the publishers at NetGalley for the advanced reader copy for review.