Check out my Review with Spoilers for Like Mother Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight and find out if you will like this gripping suspense story of a missing mother and her daughter, who vows to find out what happened to her mom.
Like Mother Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight: Overview
- To be published on July 30, 2024 by Knopf
- 320 pages
- Thanks to the publisher for the advance review copy
- Also by Kimberly McCreight: Reconstructing Amelia (2013), Where They Found Her (2015), the Outliers YA series (2016-18), A Good Marriage (2020), Friends Like These (2021)
Like Mother Like Daughter: Jen’s Quick Take
- A domestic suspense story with a mother-daughter angle
- With its college student amateur detective, this book requires some suspension of disbelief
- But well-developed characters, a tense mother-daughter relationship, and a lot of suspects made this a very readable and enjoyable summer book!
Review of Like Mother Like Daughter With Spoilers
Cleo, a college student at NYU, isn’t getting along with her mother Katrina.
Kat doesn’t approve at all of Cleo’s sketchy boyfriend. As a former foster kid, Kat wants Cleo’s life to be better, and has a radar for people she thinks Cleo sould steer clear of. Kat’s also recently separated from her husband Aidan and is dating again. Cleo, as a teenager, wants none of her mom’s advice.
Kat convinces Cleo to come to her Brooklyn brownstone for dinner. But when Cleo arrives, she finds the house empty and dinner on the stove. What happened to her mother?
The best and worst part of the book for me is that a guilty Cleo decides to play amateur detective in a way that seems completely unrealistic, but still a lot of fun. She conceals evidence from the police in a way that would make Kat, a lawyer, throw the book across the room. Well, maybe not, as Kat is her law firm “fixer” who operates somewhat in the shadows herself…
Another positive of Like Mother Like Daughter was that there are plenty of suspects in Kat’s disappearance, from shady clients and colleagues to people from her childhood to her ex-husband.
In the end, I had part of the solution, but not all of it.
If you’re looking for a fun and readable suspense story for summer, Like Mother Like Daughter could be just the book for you!
Spoilers for Like Mother Like Daughter
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Suspects: There were SO many!
Questions? Think I got something wrong? Tell me in comments below!
This is one of those books that I really enjoy while I’m reading it. When I finish, I realize that there was way too much going on in one person’s life to be believable. Too many coincidences. Maybe that’s what I like. You don’t gave to worry about this stuff happening to you if it’s too outlandish.
But, as I said, I really enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed it too. And yes, I think that’s what I love about domestic thrillers – they are kind of outlandish and things like that rarely happen in real life 🙂
What happened with the money situation ($3 million)? Did Aiden just throw it away on the movie? Did I miss something?
I looked and didn’t find anything beyond Aidan saying he “had a lead on some funding” for his film as he was hoping to put the money back before Katrina noticed.
I guess Katrina will get the brownstone in the divorce! In New York, an inheritance is not considered marital property except that Katrina used it for joint expenses which MIGHT give Aidan an argument that he is entitled to part of it (which the book suggests that Aidan researched.) Either way, he should give back half..