To be honest, this cover didn’t draw me in and I wasn’t expecting much. But once I started reading, I was hooked! We hear the story from the alternating perspectives of Kat and Cleo, mother and daughter. Kat is missing and Cleo is doing whatever she can to find her. A lot of tangled webs in this book and it kept me on the edge of my seat!

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for sending me an ARC of Like Mother, Like Daughter in exchange for an honest review.

Cleo is a college student who has a difficult relationship with her mother, Kat. After reluctantly agreeing to come over for dinner, Cleo finds their Brooklyn home empty—except there’s food burning on the stove and there’s a bloody shoe. The police begin a missing persons investigation, and Cleo soon realizes that there was much more going on in her mother’s life than she realized, and that there are a lot of people in their lives who mean them harm ….

I loved A Good Marriage and really liked Reconstructing Amelia, so I was excited to read Like Mother, Like Daughter. As with those books, there’s really good characterization with the two main characters here. Unfortunately, though, I thought this story fell far short of those two books.

First, I thought the storytelling was overly convoluted. I have no problem with telling the tale through two different time lines—Kat’s starting eight days before she went missing and Cleo’s starting when she discovered the empty house. But you start adding in diary entries, therapist notes, litigation paperwork, and then some texts from unidentified people from the day Kat went missing, and it gets a bit confusing.

Second, I thought the plot was too busy. Is Katrina’s disappearance somehow related to the death of the man she had started dating? Or perhaps her role as her law firm’s morally gray fixer? Is it connected to her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s need for her inheritance money? Because of Cleo’s drug-dealing ex-boyfriend Kyle? Why is her assistant Jules acting so strangely? And who is sending Kat threatening texts about revealing something from Kat’s past, when she was a teenager in foster care at Haven House? There are red herrings on red herrings on red herrings.

Finally, there are the much too coincidental events that take place throughout Like Mother, Like Daughter. I mean generally speaking, what are the odds all of the above problems would come to a head in Kat’s life in the same week? Then there’s the character whose only purpose seems only to annoying Kat, until she returns late to provide a series of vital pieces of information to Cleo. The story apparently required a connection between two characters that strains believability. Worst of all, like Chekov’s gun, I guess when you introduce a door inside a house that strangely locks from the outside, that door will prove pivotal in the story’s climax. An ultimately disappointing read. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

A twisty, suspense that keeps you wondering and keeps you on your toes. There are lots of layers and elements to this story that make for an intriguing read that you want to finish in a few sittings! Thank you for this advanced reader copy, I’ll be recommending it to others!

3.5 rounded up! Got a chance to read this before publication, thanks to NetGalley! (recommended by a friend) There were a few minor grammatical errors, but ultimately this was a fun/quick read! I really loved the structure of this book, I know we see a lot of dual POVs in recent releases, but I think Kimberly McCreight found a really innovative way to juxtapose the plot using the dual POVs. I think I preferred the Cleo chapters, just as a personal preference. Overall, would definitely recommend for anybody wanting a quick thriller, with some great mother/daughter relationship perspective woven throughout.

It was twisty and suspenseful but it couldn’t quite get there for me at the end. Perhaps it was due to too many storylines I had to follow, or perhaps because I couldn’t connect quite well with the characters. A solid book overall.

Kimberly McCreight has written a book that will mess with your mind!
She has written this novel with a marvelous intensity that drew me in from beginning to the end. I wish I was half the mother Katrina is, but my daughter is smarter than Cleo..
Just remember to watch out for those extra friendly neighbors.

I really enjoyed this thriller about a mother and daughter, who while estranged when the book starts, find they are more similar than they originally believed. Strong pacing and crisp writing kept me guessing until the final pages.

DNF 20% I had a very hard time getting into this story. The characters and the storyline were boring and a bit all over the place.

The plot was definitely intriguing, but I never found myself fully hooked. I wasn't extremely drawn to any of the characters, maybe just Detective Wilson. It was obvious who was shady and who you could trust, but I had a hard time fathoming that a college age student was capable of investigating this much into her mom's disappearance.

There were definitely a couple good twists but nothing that was TOO crazy or unprecedented to sway my opinion. I'll agree with most others that the review was anticlimactic.

Major thanks to NetGalley for providing an ACR of this book in exchange for my review!

This is a fast paced, mystery-thriller that will keep the reader turning pages. A daughter is summoned home by her mother only to find her mother missing and a broken glass as well as some blood in the kitchen. As she begins her own investigation in the hopes of finding her mother she stumbles upon many secrets and sees her mother in a very different light, causing her to evaluate their relationship as well as the relationships with her father and long time neighbors. She finds herself in danger, not knowing who to trust, as her world is turned upside down. Told alternately by her mother in the days before she goes missing, and the daughter in the days after the reader gets the whole story as both women stumble onto the truth of what happened. All of the loose ends are artfully tied up in an epilogue that gives the reader satisfying closure and does not interfere with the suspense and excitement of the climax plot twist.

I enjoyed Kimberly McCreight's thriller, Like Mother, Like Daughter. In this novel Cleo, a college student dabbling in risky behavior discovers her mother Kat is missing. The novel takes the reader through Kat's investigation into her mother's life as she searches to find Kat alive. I found this novel fast-paced and intriguing and enjoyed the ending. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for the perfect easy-to-read summer thriller. I rate this book 5 stars.

Thanks to Netgally for providing an advance copy of this book for me to read and review.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC. I love thrillers so this book caught my attention, and as a mom to one daughter I am always interested in reading about the often confusing relationships between mothers and daughters. It's often complex and the relationship between the Kat, the mom, and Cole, the daughter, is particularly complicated! I really enjoyed Reconstructing Amelia but I found this book fell a bit short for me. It was sometimes confusing with the multiple points of view and the ending was a bit of a disappointment. Not one of my favorites by Kimberly McCreight.

Pretty good read. I did like the author's first book and honestly this one disappointed when compared to that. I found the different timelines slightly confusing and not altogether necessary. Just an okay read for me. Thank you Netgalley for the advance copy.

Cleo begrudgingly comes over to her mom's house for dinner one night and what she found was a shock. Burning food, blood, and her mom missing. Assuming the worst, Cleo calls the police and starts searching for her mom on her own.

Kat is Cleo's opposite. A meticulous planner and super organized, Cleo has no idea who is after her mother. What Cleo doesn't know is that her mother's career isn't law as she's been led to believe her whole life. Kat is a fixer, and now she may be the one being fixed.

Unraveling a web of lies that continues to get more and more complex, Kimberly McCreight spins a tale so dark, so sinister, I couldn't get enough.

Like Mother Like Daughter is about a woman, Kat, who’s gone missing before she’s supposed to meet with her estranged daughter, Cleo. Cleo’s search for what happened to her mom unearths many secrets. Dark secrets about her mom’s past, and secrets about her father that shake her strong relationship with him. Could her father be behind her mom’s disappearance, or could it have something to do with her mother’s job?

Like Mother Like Daughter is a fast paced thriller that had me hooked. I found the characters, specifically Kat and Cleo to be very well written. I enjoyed the way the story was told between alternating POVs, emails, and transcripts. And while I did enjoy the different side plots going on, it did seem to be a little too much at times. The plot line about Ben Breyer could’ve been left out. By the time he was mentioned towards the end of the book I had completely forgotten about him.
Overall it was a good quick read.

This is my first McCreight book, but it won't be my last. I really enjoyed the story with all the twists. I connected with Katrina and Cloe (mother and daughter) and loved that they were strong women. The characters were well developed, I could actually feel them with me. Overall, an excellent book!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for this e-ARC to enjoy and review honestly. The release date is July 9, 2024.

This book takes place over the course of just a couple of days as a mom goes missing and a semi-estranged daughter and father attempt to find her. Told from the points of view of the mom before the disappearance and the daughter after, this book intrigued me and I wanted to find out how it all turned out. A few times the switching voices and timelines confused me and the in between chapters with transcripts from therapists and courts didn’t make sense until the end. But it was overall a solid read. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

As mom of a college daughter, the title of this book appealed to me. And it did not disappoint! Cleo arrives home to find dinner burning on the stove and her mom missing. Cleo begins the search for her mom. There are a lot of different possibilities and storylines which made it a bit hard to keep straight at times. But overall, this book was a “can’t put down”. Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for this thrilling ARC!

I loved this thriller! It was a quick read with solid writing. I thought both of our female protagonists were strong-willed and badass and I LOVED that.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This cover pulled me in and the book did not disappoint one bit. This made me wanna read all of this author’s works. I loooved the complex relationship these women had. I could relate to certain parts of it and that made me cry. And i could not guess the twist at all.. i was soo far off. I mean what else can one want.