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Like Mother, Like Daughter
by Kimberly McCreight
slow-paced
Thank you to NetGalley for a digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The plot is attractive. A mother and a daughter have a tense and complicated relationship. The mother goes missing. The daughter, in her attempt to find and save her mother, discovers things about her that help her to understand her mother more and helps to mend the strained relationship.
The execution of the plot was hard to follow. It feels like in an attempt to bury the lede on who is responsible, the author paints a really wide and confusing net. She introduces multiple characters and plots while also incorporating multiple media types to tell the story. It all felt a bit much.
The descriptions she uses to get her point across about the image of the person uses stereotypes rather than simple and direct descriptions. Each time a character was described, I braced for the cringe and ickiness.
The pacing felt off to me. So much exploring side plots to distract or lead the reader only to rush the end. The epilogue, while a summary of some details, left me feeling like I read so much of a story to be rushed in wrapping it up and a way that didn’t match the first 90% of the book, which was quite slow in my opinion.
The casual grazing over the child sexual abuse and characters’ flippancy about it didn’t sit well with me.
The plot is attractive. A mother and a daughter have a tense and complicated relationship. The mother goes missing. The daughter, in her attempt to find and save her mother, discovers things about her that help her to understand her mother more and helps to mend the strained relationship.
The execution of the plot was hard to follow. It feels like in an attempt to bury the lede on who is responsible, the author paints a really wide and confusing net. She introduces multiple characters and plots while also incorporating multiple media types to tell the story. It all felt a bit much.
The descriptions she uses to get her point across about the image of the person uses stereotypes rather than simple and direct descriptions. Each time a character was described, I braced for the cringe and ickiness.
The pacing felt off to me. So much exploring side plots to distract or lead the reader only to rush the end. The epilogue, while a summary of some details, left me feeling like I read so much of a story to be rushed in wrapping it up and a way that didn’t match the first 90% of the book, which was quite slow in my opinion.
The casual grazing over the child sexual abuse and characters’ flippancy about it didn’t sit well with me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder