College age Cleo has a rocky relationship with her mother, Kat, who is missing during a visit home from school. The house is a mess, which is very unusual for Kat. Cleo discovers evidence her mother may have been harmed. While the police suspect Kats husband, Cleo looks for clues to clear her dad’s name, which leads to discovering her mom may not have been the person she knew.

Lots of twists and turns and I was left wondering who the “suspect” was. While I enjoyed the cast of characters we met throughout the story, I found Cleo bratty and annoying., and disliked her character enough to put the book down every so often. .

Oh my gosh! The fabulous Kimberly McCreight knocks another one out of the park! I loved everything about this book. Solid characters that hooked me early on and absolutely did not let go. It was hard to know who to trust. Packed with tension, lies and so many secrets. Huge 5 stars from me.
Thank you NetGalley and Kimberly McCreight for the opportunity to read and review this cracker of a book.

I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

When Cleo arrives home to find her mother missing and signs of a struggle, she uncovers a web of lies. Her seemingly perfect mother, Kat, is a skilled "fixer"/lawyer hiding dangerous secrets. As threats escalate, they must confront their pasts to protect each other in a gripping tale of suspense and mother-daughter relationships.

Ever had a book so captivating you couldn't put it down? Well, I got to experience that with "Like Mother, Like Daughter" by Kimberly McCreight. I spent any free time I had during the day wrapped up in this book, completely absorbed in the story. Once I started reading, I was hooked. The plot and characters were so engaging, I just had to keep turning the pages. It switches between Kat's and Cleo's points of view, and even includes news articles and transcripts from therapy sessions, which add so much to the story. This is the first book I've read from McCreight, but it feels like she's honed in on her craft as a master storyteller. Her ability to divert my attention is like magic; I found myself surprised by the unexpected, unpredictable twists and turns. The intensity of the storyline is so gripping that you can't help but get lost in it. Every character seems to have secrets, making it hard to decipher who's telling the truth. I was completely enthralled and couldn't tear myself away until I reached the very last page.

This was a fun mystery/thriller. I did guess all of the twists but that didn’t take away from the reading experience.

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I kept looking for a good stopping place when reading "Like Mother, Like Daughter." Spoiler alert: there is none. This book takes off and never slows down.

The plot centers around the mother (Katrina) who has disappeared (leaving a blood trail in her house), the troubled relationship between daughter Cleo and her mother, and a lawsuit against a drug company.

Anxiety increases the longer Katrina is missing. Cleo realizes she really loves her mother and starts her own investigation. Fortunately, Detective Wilson is doing her own job as well as looking out for Cleo.

I'd venture to say that even if you guess the right person as the perp, you won't know why.

Kimberly McCreight has done a great job with "Like Mother, Like Daughter." I highly recommend this twisty, fast-moving mystery.

I enjoyed this read. I was a little frustrated at the beginning with switching between narratives from different people, legal documents (with some unfamiliar lingo) and therapy transcripts. It took a bit for me to settle in to the story, but once I did, I was hooked. The combination of mystery/suspense and mother/daughter angst was intriguing.

I did feel at the end like some of the story lines hadn't been fully developed - like they added to the complexity of the story just for complexity's sake rather than being an integral part of the plot. It felt a bit like I was on a ride that ended before I really got to my destination.

That aside, it was a highly entertaining read! I'd say 3.5 stars (rounding up to 4).

Such a good book! I really loved it and couldn't put it down! Five stars without a doubt. I really enjoyed the different character points of view. And inserts of transcripts.

I really enjoyed! Tense, and held my attention right from the start, fun thriller! Definitely recommend

Attention grabbing from the very beginning. Appreciated the real emotion from Katrina! Would recommend for sure!!!

This book got a hold of me since page one. It was such a ride! Did not except thee ending but did not disappoint.

*Trigger warnings for this book: SA and intimate partner violence.*

I wasn’t sure I !was going to enjoy this through the first 50 pages, but I am glad I stayed with it. This one became harder and harder to put down the further I got into it. Cleo and her mother, Kat, are characters that readers will easily become invested in. Cleo’s relationship with her mom is complicated, but when Cleo discovers Kat is missing, she doesn’t just rely on the police to figure out what happened to Kat. Cleo starts her own “vigilante” investigation to get to the bottom of what happened to Kat, and she quickly discovers her mom leads a complex life and has a slew of secrets. It’s plausible that any number of people were involved in Kat’s disappearance, and that kept me guessing right up until I got smacked in the face with the twist. Just when I thought I had it figured out…nope, I sure didn’t. The ending did feel a little abrupt, but thankfully there is an epilogue that does provide some closure for the reader. I think this will be insanely popular when the book publishes this summer, and I could absolutely see it as a movie that I would 100 percent go watch. If you like suspense books, put this on your TBR!

This story absolutely grabbed my interest and held on. It is well paced and has a cast of villains that kept me guessing until the ending. I loved it!! And highly recommend.

I loved this book! It was a great pallet refresh after reading so many long fantasy books. It also helps that I love thrillers with female authors!

The book starts off with the main protagonist missing, and has two POVS: the mother before she went missing and the daughter after the event. I was hooked right away on trying to figure out with the daughter who did it and why.

I really liked how realistic each character was. There were no black and white character tropes in this book. Even the two main protags had their own messy past, so it was hard to pin the blame on one person solely because they seemed to have motive. I’ve never read a thriller where I had no idea who the culprit was (I mean I had an idea, but I didn’t realize WHO it actually was).

I also really liked how motherhood/daughterhood is portrayed here. As someone who had a rocky relationship with their own mom growing up, it really brought up all the feels as the plot went on. It touched on how hard being a mom is when you have no idea what you’re doing, and how easy it is to pin your own insecurities on your mom as a daughter (after finishing the book, I texted my mom and told her I love her). I want to read all of this authors books now!

3.5 stars rounded up.

I enjoyed this authors debut work so was happy to get a look at her newest novel. Once again we're dealing with mothers and daughters, and the fraught relationship between them. It's an interesting story, a mystery, a past, nothing very deep and you're unsure where the story will go (particularly with the pharma plotline). Lots happening here, ultimately the husband and the boyfriends all are terrible. Seriously. But it's enjoyable and quick. Wish we got to spend more times with Jules.

Cleo and her mother Kat have more in common than they think, but Cleo, a college student, thinks the worst of her mother. She tries to keep her at arm's length, but decides to have dinner with her one night. When Cleo arrives, she finds the dinner burning in the oven and a bloody shoe on the floor. What has happened to her mother? Kat is portrayed a a successful attorney but in truth she is the "fixer" for her firm and this leads to deadly consequences. Can Cleo find her mother before her past catches up with her? A tense, taut and thrilling mystery. Well thought out.

This was an enjoyable thriller about a girl trying to find out what happened to her Mom. I felt there were a few too Many characters but I never guessed what happened. Fast paced and the author doesn't weigh down the story with unnecessary description.

This thriller had me on the edge of my seat and kept me guessing until the very end. The characters were very complex and well-developed and the narrative unfolding from various perspectives added depth to the story. There were times where the many characters made it a bit hard to keep track, but overall, it kept me engaged and I really enjoyed it!

I love McCreight so this was highly anticipated for me, but it unfortunately fell a little flat. I felt a little bored throughout most of the book and the ending was anticlimactic. I can see why so many are enjoying this one, but it just wasn’t for me. I’ll definitely be looking forward to what’s next from this author.

📖Like Mother, Like Daughter
✍️Kimberly McCreight
📠Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor
📚Mystery/Thriller, Fiction
🗓️Pub date: July 9, 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Cleo, a college student at NYU, has a strained relationship with her mother but agrees to meet her at home so they can talk. When Cleo arrives, she finds dinner burning on the stove, a shattered glass on the kitchen floor and, most distressingly, a puddle of blood by the kitchen island with her mother's bloody shoe nearby. Cleo begins her search to find her missing mother and, in so doing, unravels many of her mother's secrets. It turns out Cleo didn't know her mother as well as she thought she did. The story is told in alternating viewpoints from Cleo (in the present day) and her mother (in the days leading up to her disappearance).

The book is a fun, twisty thriller but I found that there were too many subplots in the story. Presumably this was done to keep the reader guessing as to the identity of the culprit behind the mother's disappearance, but the sheer number of subplots only served to weigh down the story. I was also disappointed in the ending which to me seemed unrealistic and far-fetched, not to mention extremely abrupt.

Despite some challenges I think this book is well-written and is a fun thriller to read. I would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking of picking it up.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter is contains as much insight into the mother/daughter relationship as it does thrill and mystery. Kat is a successful lawyer in her law firm, taking on many high profile cases with great success. She wishes to be as good of a parent to her daughter, Cleo, as she is at her job. Cleo is a student at NYU who has gotten into the wrong crowd against her mother's wishes. After several explosive arguments, Kat extends an olive branch to Cleo by offering to make her dinner at home. When Cleo arrives, she finds dinner burning in the oven and no sign of her mother other than broken glass, a shoe, and a trail of blood. Could her disappearance have to do with one of her recent cases or her divorce? Maybe her troubled past in a group home? Or could it be Cleo's drug dealer ex boyfriend? In order to find her mother, Cleo must deal with her own struggles while digging into the past and present of her mother.

I especially enjoyed the author's exploration of the mother/daughter relationship in this book--by the end of the book, the reader realizes that Cleo and her mother share more common ground than originally thought. The only reason that I didn't rate this book slightly higher is that there were lots of "mini-mysteries" and threads that I thought would all tie together in the end and be connected, but some of them turned into coincides or being entirely unrelated to the main mystery. I really enjoyed this author's writing style, and would recommend this book and read more of their work! I rated this one 3.75/5 stars.