The author had several good plot ideas but threw them all in one book.

The core of the plot revolves around Mom Katrina and Daughter Chloe. Chloe hates her mom, and Katrina desperately wants to be in her daughter's life. Choe finally agrees to meet for dinner, only to arrive at the house and find no mom, just a bloody shoe.

I like twisty and convoluted thrillers, but this was too much. There are several POVs, plotlines, and in-between chapters, a dash of transcripts, therapist's notes, emails, texts, diary entries, etc. In this case, the book didn't need it. Stripped of all the extras, Like Mother, Like Daughter is a solid plot with some great twists. The problem with too many threads is a reader is bound to not care about some of them. The more you add, the higher the probability. As everything started to wrap up at the 90% mark, I got more invested, but it was a long journey to get there.

This is not a bad thriller, by any means. It just needed to be trimmed down some. If intricate and messy thrillers are your thing, you'll like this one.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for the advanced copy! All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

I love reading a book with surprising twists!!
This is it right here.

You have Chloe, a university student who has a rocky relationship with her mom. Her mom, Katrina, goes missing and there are several suspects. Who hurt Katrina? Was it someone involved in the high profile legal cases she deals with? Was it her own husband? Was it the husband’s mistress? Was it her daughter? Was it her daughter’s drug dealing bf? Was it someone from her troubled childhood?

I really enjoyed how the book was written in both Katrina and Chloe’s point of view. Like Mother, Like Daughter touches on the fact that parents don’t always get it right. They make mistakes and love can make you do crazy things.

If you’re looking for a mystery novel with a perfect ending that leaves no questions unanswered, give this one a go!

Took me awhile to get into it but it was pretty good. I love thrillers but something was missing from this book. I would definitely read more from this author though.

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for this book.

I could not put this book down. When I did have to go out into the world, all I wanted to do was go home and continue reading!

The twist in this book was wild. I didn’t even need it though. The writing was so good that I didn’t even need the plot twist. I just want Cleo and Kat to be real so I can follow their lives!

You follow both Cleo and Kats point of views. Cleo arrived late for dinner with her mom one evening and found food burning on the stove and her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Her mom is missing.
From then on you follow Cleo’s point of view from the hours after the disappearance and Kats point of view in the days leading up to her disappearance.
I absolutely loved the way it was written. It’s suspenseful from both sides as you count down to Kats own disappearance from her view and Cleo trying to find her mom from her view.

It is amazing. I will be reading everything Kimberly McCreight writes from now on.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in return for an honest review. I was really excited to read Like Mother, Like Daughter. I loved Reconstructing Amelia from the same author. However this did not leave as lasting of an impression. The story is set in a similar world- wealthy NYC and a mother daughter relationship at the forefront of the story. I think that the story had a lot of opportunity to be great- there is a mystery at hand, a race for time, and several unreliable characters. The book had multiple timelines and perspectives including emails, newspaper articles, and therapist transcripts which made it a bit hard to follow. I also felt that one of the storylines was totally unnecessary to the book. There were several plot lines- corrupt pharmaceutical company, strained mother daughter relationship, toxic drug dealer boyfriend, hidden murder, and a secret upbringing. It seemed like some of these plots were put in to have extra suspects for the missing person, but when the story tied up some of them seemed unnecessary and had no real purpose. While I thought the twist at the end was good, it seemed convoluted to get there, and I thought there would have been a wrap up of more of the storylines that were sort of just left open.

This was my first book by Kimberly McCreight and I went into it without knowing anything about the premise. I couldn't put it down! This book is fast-paced and twisty. I was invested from the very first chapter.
The character development and timelines were extremely well written and highly engaging. I recommend you add this book to your TBR list. Thank you to the author, Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. It is available July 2024!

The premise of this book was intriguing, but the way it was written, was very hard to follow. The book switched from multiple different viewpoints very quickly and left a broken trail of storylines to follow. A random twist in the ending tried to piece it all together, but left some loose strings.

This was a really tough book for me to give an honest star rating. The multiple points of view and multiple timelines made it really difficult for me to follow the story at times. While I do love multiple pov's and timelines when done right, I feel like this book had way too many in short intervals that just made it more confusing. So for that reason alone I wanted to give it lower stars. However, the plot of the book and the absolute shocker of a twist made me give it a higher rating. This was one of the few stories that I've read where I actually sat mouth agape and gasped at the twist. It was a totally phenomenal twist. Had it not been for the confusing structure, this would have easily been a five star read for me.

This fast-paced thriller by Kimberly McCreight had me hooked from the start! Not only complicated family dynamics but workplace inconsistencies, this plot had several interwoven storylines that I was trying to solve with each passing chapter! I was thrilled to have the opportunity to read this ARC of McCreight's- thank you Netgalley and the publisher!

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a page turning mystery that examines the complicated relationship between a mother and her young adult daughter. Cleo comes home to her parents’ apartment after her mom begs her to come and talk to her. In her arrival, Cleo finds food burning on the stove, blood, and no sign of her mom, Kat. Cleo knows her mom is a successful lawyer in a loving marriage (lies, both of them) and has no idea what could have happened. The story is told from both Kat and Cleo’s perspectives and jumps back and forth in time as we follow them in the days leading up to and after Kat’s disappearance. I loved how these seemingly complete opposites were both headstrong and determined. This was a a solid and entertaining mystery that fans of McCreight will absolutely love. Out 7/9/24

Like Mother, Like Daughter
Kimberly McCreight
(This review is from an ARC sent to me by NetGalley)
When Cleo, a student at NYU, 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 Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.
Like Mother, Like Daughter revolves around a realistically complex relationship between a mother and her estranged daughter. Cleo is the polar opposite of her mother Kat who Cleo thinks is a happily married successful corporate lawyer. Kat grew up in a dangerous group home which taught her to stay calm under pressure and face real threats. Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo.
Like Mother, Like Daughter is a thrilling novel of emotional suspense, a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before it’s too late.

Katrina and her daughter Cleo have a complicated relationship. Once extremely close, they barely talk now due to a falling out over Cleo's former boyfriend and Katrina's judgmental eye. When Katrina texts Cleo to come over for dinner once night, Cleo is apprehensive but accepts the offer. When she arrives she is surprised to find dinner on the stove and her mother nowhere to be found. In the living room surrounded by a small pool of blood is her mother's shoe. Cleo immediately notifies her father and runs to the neighbor's house where they call the police. For the next week or so Cleo discovers more about her mother than she has known her entire life as she works with detectives to try and locate Katrina.

This story had a lot of potential. Told from alternating POV's (Katrina's before her disappearance and Cleo's after) we got to know both mother and daughter, however I felt like there were still large gaps of character development. Katrina's relationship with Doug and then the huge work project involving Doug's company was a little too coincidental for me. Throw in some court case transcripts and therapist conversations and there was a lot going on. I felt like I had a difficult time keeping up and getting invested in one storyline.

I really enjoyed this story about Katrina, a mother who goes missing and her daughter Cleo’s journey to find out what happened to her., while uncovering secrets about her mom’s past,
The story is told in dual POV’s as well as different timelines. It kept me wanting to uncover more about the story.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read an early release of this book.

This was such a good book! I loved the characters, and their story. The dialogue was realistic and enjoyable. I was very surprised by the ending!

A mesmerizing and gripping plot, a missing mother, a semi estranged adult daughter and her drive to find her mother. I read this in one sitting and was gripped by the twists and major turns, and its another McCrieght unputdownable thriller! Loved it.

Oh no. It’s a rough one. The idea is grand but the execution is poor. I was struggling through because I enjoy a missing person story but there’s only so much unnatural speech and … one can handle.

After reading Good Material I needed a palate cleanser, and thought I'd read this mystery/thriller that comes out this summer. Unfortunately, it was not for me. College aged Cleo finds her mother missing and a bloody shoe in her Brooklyn brownstone as evidence, and discovers lies within her parents marriage. There were so many side stories and characters, which made this book very hard to follow. I found myself skimming and skipping sections altogether, as somehow a missing person/murder story bored me...which is unusual!

I absolutely loved McCreight's earlier novels Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found her, but just haven't found the same enraptured experience from her latest novels and unfortunately like Mother, Like Daughter was the same. Kat McHugh is a mother, a wife, and a fixer for a prestigious law firm and she also has quite a dark past. Her job is about the only thing that's going right these days as she has a very fraught relationship with her college aged daughter Cleo and her marriage to Aidan is basically over at this point. Cleo comes to their Park Slope home one evening to begrudgingly meet her mother for dinner, when she finds the fire alarm on, a bloody shoe and no Kat. Told through alternating view points of Cleo after this night and Kat before, lots-- almost too much-- drama ensues. The plot had a lot going on between Kat's work cases and strangeness with her assistant Jules, Cleo and her ex-boyfriend, Kat's past, Aidan's infidelity, and the list goes on. The story would have been much better and less farfetched if things were tightened up a bit. Overall, I enjoyed it enough, but definitely not the best of McCreight's work. 3.5 stars

This book had me thinking everyone was suspicious 🧐 side eyed them all!
I felt bad for Cleo from the gecko though..
The relationship between her and her mom takes me back to the younger days and gave me all those feels.
Even when relationships can be rocky between mother and daughter the love is always still there!
Love ignites the flame to keep Cleo to keep going, to keep searching.
This book had me wanting more and more. An unforgettable page turner! Highly recommend!

This is my first book by this author and it won’t be my last! There were so many layers and it kept me guessing at every turn!!! It had me completely hooked from the first page. And that PLOT TWIST 🤯