Thank you to Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the chance to read the e-arc of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight.

Wow, this book had me hooked from the get go! Everything Cleo McHugh believes about her parents gets knocked off kilter when she finds her family kitchen trashed including a bloody shoe belonging to her mother, corporate lawyer Kat. A distraught Cleo takes matters into her own hands and begins to investigate Kat’s disappearance, leading her to piece together some parts of her mom’s past that she sought to keep hidden. At the same time, some truths about her parents’ relationship and one of her mom’s current cases surface, causing Cleo to turn to several people for support. Not everyone has Cleo’s or Kat’s best interests at heart though, leading to even more intrigue.

There are so many twists and turns and complications, that it is anyone’s guess until the very end where the story is headed. I’ll admit that I had a feeling about one of the characters that turned out to be spot on, but that did not ruin the moment of truth for me. I was pretty happy for the resolution of this very messy but smart thriller. 5/5 star read

⭐️⭐️⭐️Well paced and entertaining thriller. For us to be lost in any story, whether that be a book or show or movie, we must give ourselves over to the suspension of disbelief. What I mean by that is, we have to have some willingness to buy in from the start.

At some point the complete lack of risk aversion from daughter Cleo, and the assumption that she would be able to do any of the investigating that she eventually does ruins that suspension of disbelief for me. There are too many breadcrumbs that didn’t make the twist as shocking as it should have been, but this is still worth the read. It reminds me of Lisa Jewell-esque thrillers. Enjoy! ✨

👍 Good for Book Clubs
🕰️ Quick read

I really enjoy reading this book. The mystery of what and who just kept the reader engaged to keep turning the page.

This book kept me hooked trying to figure out what on earth happened. It's full of family drama and I LOVE that. I was a little let down on the ending, it made sense but also felt... flat I guess. Overall, I loved reading about Cleo and her family.

Katrina is missing. Her daughter, Cleo, comes home to find the oven was left on with the chicken burnt to nothing and her mother's shoe in a pile of blod. Nothing is missing or otherwise disturbed aside from her mother. Where has she gone or who took her?
I can't cssifyo Like Mother, Like Daughter as a thriller or suspense. It was just a long, winded story that involved way too many people and way too many storylines to care about. The characters; I couldn't make myself like any of them and I certainly didn't care what happened to them. The endlaing...... okay. The book was over. It wasn't anything crazy. This book just was not for me. I always appreciate NetGalley for the advanced digital copies and for allowing me to give m honest opinion.
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This is my fave thriller of 2024 so far. 🙌🏻
Kat is an expert fixer at a top law firm, but struggling to repair her relationship with her daughter. Following a mysterious death of a client, she receives messages from someone who knows the dark parts of her past and threatens to harm her daughter. Her mission to protect her daughter and hunt to unearth the truth leads her down a dangerous path.
When her mom goes missing, Cleo begins her own relentless search for answers.
It’s a Scandal-esque legal thriller, whodunit mystery, and relationship drama all in one. Four stars for me!

Thanks @netgalley and @aaknopf for the arc!

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Thank you @netgalley for the ARC of Like Mother Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight.

This was a fast paced thriller that kept the reader guessing. It was a told from dual points of view from Kat and her daughter. The reader pieces together the story as Cleo does. I thought it was a good book, but the story was a little two dimensional for me.

Cleo comes home to find her mother missing and blood on the floor. She races to find her mother and learns she is not who she thought she was.

Katherine and Cleo are mother/daughter, with a bit of a strained, partially estranged relationship. The book goes back and forth between their POVs, giving the reader snippets of what each character thinks is going on vs what's really going on. It creates tons of tension, and I really enjoyed it. Cleo responds to her mother's phone call to come home ASAP--only to walk in and discover her mother has obviously been taken. There's blood on the floor. She calls her father (who she soon learns has moved out) for help. This launches a seriously twisty story that I thoroughly enjoyed.

When I started this book, I thought maybe I would never really get into it. But about a third of the way into it, I was hooked. The way that the author gave different snippets from different POVs at the ends of certain chapters made for extra pieces of the puzzle that you wouldn’t get just from the two main characters.

Usually I can figure out the ending of a mystery/thriller with a good bit left in the plot. Not this one - I was shocked pretty close to the epilogue, but the ending didn’t feel abrupt at all.

*add to your reading list if you love a thrill!

One of those books that makes you go oh good and then not so much. I waffled back and forth with this one. It was an okay read but.... confusing with throwing in characters, situations and stuff just thrown in at times. Just didn't make it a great read for me.

Katherine and Cleo have an estranged mother/daughter relationship. Katherine has a dark past with secrets no one knows. She was placed in New Haven for orphaned children at an early age and grew up without parental figures for most of her childhood. This darkened her ability to be a loving, caring mother, and this resonates in her relationship with Cleo, her daughter.

Cleo is a rebellious college student staying as far away from her mother as possible. Cleo gets involved into some shady business with her former boyfriend and Katherine steps in to make sure Cleo and her former boyfriend do not have any further communication or contact. Katherine tries to get Cleo home so they can talk. When Cleo finally reluctantly agrees, she is created by a fire on the stove, blood on the floor and a bloody shoe that belongs to her mother. But where is Katherine? Cleo is in a race to find her mother, or what happened with her mother.

This is a twisty turn of events novel told from 2 different point of views. I thought the story flowed rather smoothly, but there was a lot of detail in connection to Katherine’s job that could have potentially been shortened a little. Overall, this was the first book I’ve read by this author and i did enjoy this book! I would definitely recommend to my fellow readers!

Thanks to NetGalley for this eARC!

Thanks to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

This story is an intriguing one where everyone is suspect and I really never figured out what was happening. Both mother and daughter definitely had their issues!

Cleo, a student at NYU, is summoned home by her mother but when she gets there she only finds blood. Her father comes home to help her. The book switches between Cleo and Kat's (the mother) POV. Kat had a difficult upbringing in foster care and wants to be the perfect mother to her daughter as a result. But this results in her being a helicopter mom, constantly interfering in Cleo's life. A fact that Cleo resents which has made them estranged. Cleo nonetheless is worried about her mother's disappearance and decides to investigate things herself when she feels the police are not getting anywhwere. A good page turner with a number of twists.

I really enjoyed this book. It keeps you guessing from the start. The characters were very relatable! Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this in exchange of an honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the opportunity to review this ARC.
There was a lot going on in this book from differing points of views as well as unnamed texts, and other snippets that provided clues. Some of these transcripts and messages were confusing but began to make sense as the story progressed.
Kat and Cleo have a strained mother and daughter relationship. When Kat goes missing, Cleo steps forward to search for her mother. I liked the characterization of both characters, and how they grew despite their flaws.

After enjoying a few of Kimberly McCreight’s earlier novels, I was excited to receive an advance copy of her new one, Like Mother, Like Daughter which is set to be released in July of 2024. This was a fast paced, multi pov story about a missing woman and her daughter’s race to learn what happened.
When Cleo, a student at NYU, visits her estranged mother Kat in Brooklyn one afternoon she walks in on an unexpected scene. Her mother is gone but she finds a bloody shoe, dinner in the oven and her father nowhere to be found. Cleo and Kat have had their issues in the past, but when Cleo starts to uncover clues to her mother’s disappearance, she jumps into action to discover who her mother really is and what has been going on in her life.
This is a solid thriller, with lots of twists and turns, and I enjoyed it a lot. Will definitely recommend.
Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for my gifted ARC.

Katrina and Cleo have a fairly strained mother/daughter relationship. Katrina is a high-powered attorney, tasked with "fixing" situation for her firm's clients, and Cleo is a student at NYU who recently got out of a relationship with drug-dealing boyfriend, Kyle. Cleo feels that Katrina is too controlling and involved in her life and has pumped the breaks on their relationship. When she reluctantly agrees to meet up with her mom, she enters her childhood home to find a mess of blood and disarray, but no signs of Katrina. A flurry of secrets from Katrina's past are kicked up as Cleo searches for her missing mother.
This book took me a long time to get into, and a very long time to finish. There were so many characters and backstories that it was hard to keep track. Especially because most of the backstories ended up not making much of a difference in the overall plot. I wish the author had tied up all of the ends in a way that was more meaningful, or left some of the details out altogether.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor for an ARC of this title in exchange for my honest feedback.

Like Mother, Like Daughter is Kimberly McCreight’s latest. I am so, so lucky that I was given a chance to read this as an Advanced Reader’s copy. Thank you NetGalley and Alfred A. Knopf for this opportunity.

This very intricate book marks a remarkable and somewhat tumultuous relationship between a mother and daughter. Katrina is a successful attorney who does somewhat questionable things as a “fixer” at her firm. She is going through a divorce from her husband, who is a dreamer of sorts never really holding down a job, and considering himself a movie maker, but his movies are never sold. They together have a 19 year old college daughter, Cleo.

Kat goes missing one evening after convincing her daughter to come home for dinner. Cleo is late as often and grumbly about going. When she gets there, there is some blood on the ground and no sign of Kat.

The story switches perspectives from Kat to prior to her going missing, to Cleo at the time her mom is missing and after. In between, are snippets of texts and other clues of what has happened in Kay’s past and what is currently happening in her life.

The story line is unforgettable, there are so many reasons Kat could be missing. The reader gets a full back story to a major case Kat is working on, other characters she’s helped out, her soon to be ex husband, And the biggest secret from her past growing up in a group home for kids without parents.

All of the storylines and plot were woven together so well and the ending was explosive and not what I was thinking at all. It all made sense. This is not a book that I ended thinking “that could never happen.”

I absolutely loved every page. Extremely clever, engaging and a wild, thrilling ride.

I would highly recommend this one. I have read and given all of McCreight’s books high ratings but this one is the best yet.

I found the story line extremely hard to keep track of. The back and forth in time, then adding in all the other factors was confusing for me and I had to keep going back. The story itself was very interesting and well written. Kimberly McCreight can write a unique book!

I thought this book was enjoyable, however, a lot was going on at one time. At times it was hard to follow, especially with the duel POVs. I'm glad I continued reading. It was cool to see how the storylines came together.