3.75 stars

Cleo and her mom Kat have a complicated relationship. One night Cleo comes home to find her mom gone, dinner still in the oven and a bloody shoe. Not wanting to sit around and do nothing Cleo starts looking into her moms life and finds out Kat isn’t who she thought she was.

Pros: it was a quick easy read and I liked the dual perspectives. As soon as you thought you knew who the kidnapper was a new suspect popped up.

Cons: it took about 1/3 of the book for me to get into it. Additionally, the epilogue was lacking, we get to know some of these characters and then their store just ends, nothing is wrapped up or resolved.

Overall I would definitely recommend.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read. I would have liked a little more of an epilogue at the end...is she going to go after the money her ex stole? Otherwise, great text, really engaging. It had some twists that I didn't expect!

What would you do if you walked into your mom's home, and all that remained of her was a pool of blood and her bloody shoe? Cleo has to answer these questions in Kimberly McCreight's latest Like Mother, Like Daughter.

I was sent an e-copy of this book, and it was quite an interesting thriller! I loved how the book alternated among Cleo, Kat (her mother), and then anonymous parts. It also alternated between the past and present. Once I started this book, it was hard for me to put it down, a sure sign that a book is a good one to me.

I will say that the book wrapped up too quickly, and I felt like I needed to read more about one character's ending.

But overall...it was a page-turner and is worth the read!

Cleo and her mother Katrina do not get along. Cleo thinks her mother is too controlling and she's sick of her interfering with her lifestyle choices. Katrina is afraid that Chloe's dangerous choices are going to cost her far more than she is willing to pay one day.

After a period of estrangement, Chloe agrees to meet Katrina at home to try to have a discussion and bridge their current gap. When Chloe arrives, the door to the house is open, food is on the stove and in the oven burning, glass is shattered, and her mother's lone shoe has blood on it. Katrina is nowhere to be found.

The police are called and Katrina is reported as a missing person.

Frightened and in a panic, Chloe is desperate to find her mother. As she tries to use her mother's laptop and talk to her father, her mother's friends, work colleagues, and clients, Chloe quickly realizes that her mother has been keeping secrets of her own. Chloe knows that she's running out of time if she wants to find her mother alive and she'll do whatever it takes to find her-even if she puts her own well-being in danger.

I'm a fan of Kimberly McCreight and have enjoyed her past novels such as A Good Marriage and Friends Like These. This taut, suspenseful thriller is no exception. McCreight knows how to construct an engaging story with characters you are invested in and plot threads that continue to build and merge to peak your interest. The twists and turns of this story will keep the reader guessing until its satisfying conclusion.

Look no further for a genuinely original clever and suspenseful thriller!

Another hit from Kimberley Mccreight! When a mother goes missing before a meeting with her estranged daughter both of their lives and secrets begin to unravel. A great thriller

This was a fast paced novel with interesting characters. It kept my attention all the way to the end.

Katrina’s daughter Cleo comes home one night to find her mother missing and broke glass and a bloody shoe behind. Admits Katrina’s pending divorce, Cleo dating a drug dealer, there is a lot going on. I had a hard time getting into this one.
Sadly, it just wasn’t for me.

I liked this book! It was suspenseful and relatively fast paced, but I always felt I understood what was going on. The dual perspective chapters help break up the plot a little too and gave the opposite points of view, which I thought helped provide more context. I also appreciated the mother-daughter aspect of this book. Normally in a thriller this wouldn't be such a big focus, but I liked how the author slowly exposed the reasons for their tough relationship while also having each begin to recognize how much they care about each other. I saw the second plot twist coming, but I definitely didn't predict the first!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC! Thriller lovers, pick this one up on 7/9/24!

Flew through this ARC of Like mother, like daughter by @kimberlymccreight 😍

Thank you to @netgalley and @aaknopf for the ARC!! This shocking, thrilling & absolutely brilliant novel will be released on July 9th 📚

4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I requested to read and review this book for free from Alfred A. Knopf a division of Penguin Random House Publishing Company. This book was full of many twists and turns and will keep you guessing until the very end! I highly recommend this book. Who can you trust? Who protects Who? Parents are supposed to protect their child. The things in out past shape our future and how we handle situations more then we can every imagine. Kat has a had not the best childhood and plans to make sure her daughter never makes the same mistakes she did. Cleo wants to nothing to do with her mom who she thinks is to controlling. Adian is the dad who is your beet friend and you think as a parent has the best intentions for hia daughter and for his wife. But when someone you love disappears what will you do to find this person, what will you do to find them alive and to keep them safe?

Cleo has a complicated relationship with her mom. When she receives a plea from her mom, Kat, to come home because she needs to talk to her, she reluctantly goes. When she gets there her mom isn’t answering the door. She knocks harder and the door opens. Once inside, she notices there’s food burning and there’s no sign of her mother. But then she finds shattered glass, and blood, lots of it. Cleo jumps into action to find her mom, and while doing so, unravels secrets about her mom’s life that she didn’t know about. Will she be able to find her mom before it’s too late?

This was a decent mystery/thriller book. It caught my attention in the beginning, but by the middle, I found myself a little bored and just wanting to get to the end to find out what was going on. It picked up again towards the end, but I found it to feel a little haphazard and convoluted with so many characters and possibilities in play. Overall, I’m rating the book 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars.

Thank you to Knopf and NetGalley for the ARC. The pub date is slated for July 9th, 2024.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The only reason why I am giving this book a 4 out of 5 is because I did guess the big twist early.

It is still phenomenal!

Do you ever finish a book and immediately want to start it over with clear, open eyes that know everyone and everything? This book makes me want to do that, and I mean that in the best possible way. This story was incredibly written, hooking me from the first few chapters.
It’s told from two point of views and two timelines. The mom, Katrina, has gone missing and tells the before POV, while her daughter, who she has a broken relationship with, is the first to discover her mom is missing, and tells the after POV. There are so many characters, but I think they’re all pretty necessary and they all tie together nicely. It truly kept me wondering what narrative the suspect line was going… was it the estranged husband who needed 2.5 million of his wife’s inheritance, the new boyfriend who died under suspicious circumstances, the haunting anonymous text messages threatening to reveal her past, or the daughter’s angry drug dealing ex-boyfriend.
5/5 ⭐️ Would absolutely recommend!
Many thanks to Kimberly McCreight and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor Knopf for my eARC, publishing July 2024!

This is the first book by this author I’ve read and is a wonderful read! There is a real twist I did not see coming at the end! The daughter Cleo and her mother are well fleshed out characters though I was still unsure what Kat’s job was? For me this was a story of a mother and daughter finding their way back to each other during those crazy years when girls are hateful to their mothers. Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

I really loved Kimberly McCreight's previous book, A Good Marriage, so I was excited to check this one out since it also takes place in New York. I really enjoyed it, it kept me on my toes and I couldn't put it down!

Cleo and her mother Katrina have a strained relationship and haven't talked in awhile. When Cleo arrives at her childhood home and finds her mother gone, broken glass and blood on her mother's shoe, she quickly takes the search for her mother in to her own hands.

This book is very fast paced, as the narrative switches between Kat in the days leading up to her disappearance, as well as Cleo in the hours and days after the disappearance. Interspersed are news articles, transcripts, texts, and more multi-media, which I always love.

I guessed one of the twists ahead of the reveal but it didn't take away from it for me - and I didn't guess all of them. I enjoyed the tension and the unsettling nature of the book, and thought the ending was good.

I would recommend this for anyone looking for a fast-paced New York based thriller! I'll be checking out everything Kimberly McCreight puts out in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book!

A page turner.. a fast paced clever novel that will make a terrific Netflix series. The chronology was a bit jumbled because the narrative jumped from one person’s point of view to another without following the story line. It’s a fun read with a few weak plot points. You never find out what happened to the inheritance the lawyer had saved. I read it almost in one sitting. The resolution was a bit expected if you followed the clues but I did like it.

I received a free copy from Net galley in exchange for an honest review.

Wow, this one hit just right! A daughter who has a difficult and estranged relationship with her Mother comes to dinner to find her missing and signs of a struggle. College aged Cleo starts trying to investigate what her Mom was doing up until that to figure out what happened and if there is a chance she's still alive. Driven a little by guilt over the state of their relationship and also on memories on when they were close she is driven to the point of recklessness.

The story is told in alternating view points of the Mom, Kat, set in the weeks before she went missing and the daughter, Cleo from the time her Mom went missing onwards. Interspersed are brief journal entries, lawsuit briefs and text conversations with no notations about who wrote them. This does lead to some early confusion about what exactly is going on but I found it like a puzzle with the pieces scattered and as we read the picture starts coming together and we see more and more as it goes along.

I think one of the reasons this was such a good fit for me was that there are two levels to this story. There is the mystery of what happened to Kat but alongside that is the unraveling of what happened to lead mother and daughter to the places they are now. Initially both can be difficult characters who make poor decisions but as the story progresses you understand better why they make some of the mistakes and choices that they do. It was really interesting to dive into that along with the mystery. I thought it was well done too the way it was interspersed.

Another aspect I appreciated is that any twists are built into the story organically and don't come out of left field. One reason why I am careful abut picking suspense books is because the latest trick with many of them is to come out of left field with gotchas that were thrown in there merely for the sake of a twist or shock value. Those always make me feel manipulated as a reader. However, in this book any twists and turns are built into the the story and events surrounding the characters and make sense to the plot. In other words, they aren't there merely for the sake of a twist.

This book would be a great book club pick as there is a lot to dive into and unpack. As a matter of fact I will be recommending it to my book club and this is a book where I know I will pick up on a lot of things with a second reading. So if your book club wants a mystery/suspense, especially if the readers are women (as we are all at least daughters and some of us Mothers) then I highly recommend this book for some potentially great discussions.

This book had a great premise. Cleo gets a text from her mother Katrina to come home and talk. When she arrives her mother is no where to be found, dinner is burning in the oven and there is a pool of blood on the floor. . We get Cleo's point of view and we get Katrina's point of view before she goes missing. This book was just all over the place for me. We have a volatile mother / daughter relationship, a fractured marriage, a lawsuit involving a pharmaceutical drug and something terrible that happened in Katrina's childhood in foster care. I kept reading and waiting for something to tie all of this together. It just seemed disjointed to me and I never really got into the story.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for a copy of this book for review.

BOOK REPORT
Received a complimentary copy of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight from Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor/NetGalley, for which I am appreciative, in exchange for a fair and honest review. Scroll past the BOOK REPORT section for a cut-and-paste of the DESCRIPTION of it from them if you want to read my thoughts on the book in the context of that summary.

Wanted to read this book because in one of my past lives I was a fixer, albeit not as an attorney with some hotshot New York law firm. And albeit not one who made a ka-jillion dollars. Or broke any laws.

That I know of.

Anywhoodles…..it’s rare that I find myself agreeing with any sort of advance blurb, but in this case “smart, propulsive” absolutely fits the bill. And while I disagree with author Laura Dave, who said that about this book, I disagree that it was “impossible to put down.” But it did offer some easy escapism on a cold January Sunday afternoon, and taught me a few new acronyms (GGG and ENF, both related to online dating, for which I think I would be entirely unsuited were My Beloved to precede me in death, for all manner of reasons).

As is the case with me when it comes to a lot of mystery/psychological thriller books set in the current day and time, I found myself thinking as I read that this would make a really good streaming series. Just enough different storylines to keep a few red herrings floating to the top of the barrel for most of the book.

Looking forward to reading more by Kimberly McCreight.

PS
This isn’t really a spoiler, I don’t think. Or I dunno, maybe it is. So maybe skip this PS? Which is really just a question: What was the resolution regarding the $3 million? I called myself reading the Epilogue twice to find out, but that thread, she still seems loose…..

DESCRIPTION
From the New York Times best-selling author of Reconstructing Amelia: A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this "breathless, shocking thriller." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times best-selling author

“Kim McCreight’s thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down.” —Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me

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.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks.

Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, 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 that questions the damaging fictions we cling to and the hard truths we avoid. Above all, it’s a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before it’s too late.

I really enjoy Kimberly McCreight's adult fiction so was very disappointed to not like Like Mother, Like Daughter. The story begins with a mom missing while dinner cooking, broken glass on the ground with some drops of blood. Then there is the addition of many side characters including a self-involved college age daughter, her drug dealer ex-boyfriend, a current mystery boyfriend, an estranged husband who needs lots of money, a guy she is dating who dies under mysterious circumstances, shady co-workers. And multiple side plots like the mother's mysterious job, her childhood that includes living in a group home, a pharmaceutical company responsible for a drug that causes birth defects. These are not even all the characters and plot lines. While I typically like a few different storylines and perspectives going at once, it did not work here. This is a "me' problem, but I find I do not like hearing a teen/young adult's perspective so being in the daughter's head was annoying to me. The twists were not surprising, the characters were not well developed, the ending was very anti-climatic and a few plot points were unrealistic. I would have DNF'ed except I trusted McCreight to bring it all together in the end; unfortunately this did not happen. This book was a bit of a mess to me and could have used a strong editor, with a few less characters and subplots. I am hoping this is a one off and her next book will be a winner for me. 2.5 stars, rounded down to 2.