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.

Like Mother, Like Daughter was a solid thriller. It was full of twists and turns. While I was able to guess one of the major plot twists, there were others that took me by surprise. Thank you @netgalley and @aaknopf for this advanced copy! Read if you like: missing persons stories, you’re more likely to your mom than you even realize, main characters that take charge to solve the problem. #likemotherlikedaughter #kimberlymcreight #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #books #bookish #netgalley #netgalleyreads #thriller #suspense

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. Cleo arrives home to find her mom missing. He and her mom have their differences, this book was intriguing

Cleo is back home for dinner with her mom cat, but finds the house slightly messy which is unusual and there is some blood as well but no sign of her mom. This starts off an investigation for her missing mom who everyone thought was simply a lawyer, but she’s also good at her actual profession that she kept a complete secret. This investigation brings light to the problems between her parents and the truth of their relationship, along with some secrets that her father kept nicely guarded. But Cleo has clearly got her curiosity and investigative genes from her mother and now she’s on the path to uncover the whole story and find her mom in spite of their messy relationship.

It is definitely the kind of plot that would keep the readers engaged all the way till the end and also maintains fantastic pace. There are a few characters in the book that keep popping up suddenly, which kind of threw me into a loop as I expected more development of these characters. I enjoyed the twists and turns and though the ending twist was slightly expected, it left me slightly unsatisfied. Overall, I definitely enjoyed the suspense and I recommend it to all the thriller lovers.

I liked the suspense in figuring out how the different storylines connected. It was a bit hard to follow the combination of texts and court documents but did add an element of mystery. I liked the element of mother and daughter connection so it went a bit beyond just a mystery and into the relationships between family members.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is my fourth book by McCreight and my favorite so far. This story is told in alternating points of view and flashabacks/timelines between mother, Kat, and daughter Cleo. The two have a tumultuous relationship at best. As the story unravels, we learn more about Kat's past and how that has impacted her mothering and thus her relationship with her daughter. Kat disappears and there are so many reasons why she could have disappeared. Her high profile law job, where she is really a corporate "fixer" becomes dangerous when her boyfriend is murdered for his role in trying to help reveal the wrongdoings his employer, Darden pharmaceuticals, tries to cover up. But, her past, which was harder than anyone in her life understands, is also starting to catch up with her. On top of that, her husband, who she is separated from, wants her money to help bail him out of a jam.

Cleo, despite her relationship with her mom, is adamant that she help find her mom. She discovers multiple threads from all the danger her mom is involved in, putting herself in danger too. The closer she gets to finding her mom, the closer she gets to being a victim.

I really enjoyed this story and found it hard to put it down. Very suspenseful, very well-crafted characters, and an intense plot! Definitely a must-read.

I really liked this book! I liked the dynamic between the mother and the daughter and how it revisited the mothers past. The husband part of it through me for a loop a little bit in the aspect I didnt really understand what he was doing but overall a good read! 4 stars :)

Thank you for the advanced reader Netgalley!

Another great book by Kimberly McCreight! This book highlights the complex relationship between a mother and daughter with a gripping story line.

Kat, the mother, is missing when Cleo, the daughter, comes to dinner as requested. Not only is she missing but cleo finds a bloody shoe and a broken glass and knows something terrible has happened. Cleo then goes a bit rouge to find out what happened to her mom. As the story develops, Cleo learns a lot about her mom and sees that not everything is as she thought. Her mom has a much more troubled past and her current job isn't as simple as it appeared.

This is a great book with a lot of gripping details about how the past can shape who a person in today and NEVER judge a book by its cover. It also dives into the dynamic relationship between a. mother and daughter and how to learn to see beyond what is in front of you.

I will be looking out for more books by this author as she grips you from the start and keeps you wanting to read until the very end.

Thank you NetGally and Knopf publishing for the ARC copy in return for an honest review.

Like Mother Like Daughter by Kimberly Mccreight.

Cleo and her mother Katrina have a strained relationship. When Katrina goes missing, Cleo will stop at nothing to find where her mother is. Unbeknownst to Cleo, her mother has also gone above and beyond to protect her from her drug dealing boyfriend.

Cleo begins to uncover her mother’s past and soon everyone is a suspect Katrina’s disappearance.

Wow! This was an incredible read. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you’re hit with another plot twist. I enjoyed this book greatly

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