A sharp, funny character study of an entire generation. This book begins as a slice-of-life story about a bunch of women at a college, but by the end, it unfurls an incisive comentary on class, consumerism, and the cost of getting what you want.

This just isn't my type of book unfortunately. I was dragging my feet to continue to pick it up and get through it. Nothing really captured my attention, but I know a lot of people have loved this book and this authors writing style.

Not for me, but I was just pretty neutral about it. It definitely wasn't bad, just not for me!

Come and Get It has been a polarizing book this year - but I loved it! I was captivated by the campus scene in northwest Arkansas and all the bad choices that our characters made.

The writing is engaging and Kiley Reid is so good at weaving story elements together. The story gets crazier as the book progresses and once everything comes together, it’s kind of like whoa, all those little details did matter. I had a little bit of trouble keeping track of the characters at first, but that’s not because of the writing, just because there are a lot of characters.

Thanks to NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

Wow I really enjoyed this!!!! Even though this was fiction, the characters and dialogue were so specific and realistic that it felt like the author had shadowed some of my conversations from undergrad at a large southern school. It was truly on point, coming from a reader who was in undergrad during the same time period at a big southern school. Such great themes about the inner workings of female relationships, micro aggressions, gossip, power and money, at college and beyond. I’ll be thinking about these characters for awhile. Kiley Reid is an auto buy author for me now.

I never got the chance to pick up Such a Fun Age when it came out, but if Kiley wrote anything like she did in this book, I can see why that book was popular. First of all, she made relatable characters and put them into a twisted situation. Then she made an ending that probably never would have been predictable to any reader. I loved this read from beginning to end.

One thing about me is I love a good plot. Plot is what often drives me to continue reading a book and unfortunately this book did not hit that mark.

What did save this book for me is Kiley Reid’s writing. She has a way of exposing characters that is both jaw dropping and comedic.

Overall I enjoyed this book for what it was. It was an okay read. I felt disconnected for most of the story but it’s not a bad book by any means.

I was fully prepared not to like this but it was strangely engrossing, and the ending was more satisfying than expected. A whole lot of college drama in the middle.

Kiley Reid expertly shows us that she is not a one hit wonder, but in fact an author who is endlessly capable of capturing contemporary dynamic characters as they exist and persist through relatable experiences and hardships. If you are drawn to financial relationship differences or queer collegiate power dynamics and stories that explore the way we internalize judgement from the world around us then this book is for you.

I feel terribly because I finished this book a month ago and I still don't know how to rate it. I don't think you really can rate this book. What's interesting to me is that a publisher was comfortable with an author writing a book where the first 80% was character based and the last 20% was plot. That's a lot of patience to ask for in a reader and I can see why the reviews are so mixed. I come at this book with a background in higher education (not ResLife though), but I had lots of friends in Res Life and lived in dorms myself.

I think this book would have almost fit better as a sociological study/fiction? I think this could be discussed in some of my graduate courses, but as frontlist fiction I can see where people really struggled. If you had no interest in college life, this wouldn't be for you.

As for Ms. Reid's writing and attention to detail with nuances in character...it was a 5 star read. She is a wonderful writer. The audiobook was done very well and the narrator did a great job. I'm glad I listened to this because reading it would have been a lot slower. Would absolutely recommend listening to the audio for this book.

This book is a great example about how when I enjoy an author's voice, it totally changes how I experience the book. This book was kind of weird and worked for me in a way I cannot articulate at all. I laughed out loud many times (while feeling a little bit guilty at laughing because, if I'm honest, sometimes I felt like I was laughing *at* these characters.) But at the same time, they seemed so very human with their flaws and foibles, and it was like I knew these people, and it felt more like when you are fond of someone and chuckle at their nonsense. This was even true for the less likable characters. I don't know that I am explaining this well at all!

This book felt like an anthropological study of this subset of humans, with so many little mundane details that I would roll my eyes at in a book that wasn't working for me. But here, it added depth and tangibility to these weird people. There are some VERY uncomfortable moments and at one point I was sure it was going to end on a dark note but it actually ends in a pretty hopeful place.

It was interesting how similar this was in vibes to the author's debut, Such a Fun Age - with the cringe and second hand embarrassment - but still totally unique.

Some content warnings include: racist microaggressions, drug and alcohol use, animal death, suicidal ideation, accident involving blood, past vehicle collision contributing to a death, questionable power dynamics in a sexual relationship.

“A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.”—blurb

I was initially drawn to this book (and truthfully, probably wouldn’t have been otherwise) because it is set at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville anddddd I went to law school at UofA and have lived here in Fayetteville for the past 10+ years!!! This aspect definitely ended up being my favorite part of the book! The author mentioned many locations around town and it was super fun to read her descriptions of Fayetteville!

As for the rest, I’m having a hard time summarizing my thoughts. For a large portion of the book, I thought I would probably DNF if not for the setting, because it felt like nothing was happening, but at the same time I ended up enjoying all of my time reading this novel. It is extremely character driven with little plot in sight. Very well written. I won’t go around recommending this one but I would absolutely encourage someone to read it if it has piqued their interest!

3.5 stars! ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️💫

Thank you @netgalley and publisher for an eARC!

I was so excited to read Come and Get It as I'm a huge fan of Just a Fun Age. But I just could not get into this read. I think it was a combination of the subject matter and questionable dialogue. Thank you for the opportunity to read it.

This started off super strong for me, but ultimately became really repetitive and left me feeling kind of icky in a hyperspecific way.

Kiley Reid has *such* a distinct voice. Her ability to reflect back such spot on, modern, relevant language and characters and scenarios is sublime. I think if you loved the characterization and language of Such a Fun Age, you'd probably enjoy at least parts of this book.

However, I think like in Such a Fun Age, there are a lot of weird plot choices here that just aren't really examined in a way that allows you to understand why they were even included in the first place. The way these characters talk can become a lot sometimes and I found it all insanely repetitive by the end of the story. I kept waiting to see where the book would take these conversations and the answer was not really anywhere.

I felt like the only character we're shown any semblance of depth with is just put there for shock value almost or as a plot point and not treated with a lot of actual sympathy. There's also just an unnecessary relationship towards the end of the book that felt weird and out of place, unexamined? Both of those things left me feeling really off by the end of this. It's almost like Kiley Reid couldn't commit to any of her POVs fully.

All that being said, I do think Reid is an astounding writer. She's engaging, honest, on the nose, current. I'm excited to keep reading from her, but this one missed the mark for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Putnam for an e-ARC!

Such an excellent book!! I love this genre so much and Kiley Reid knows how to bring the human experience to the forefront of your mind in everything that she does!! Love love love!!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy!!

Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin Group for this e-book arc. I was initially intrigued by the description of this book and the cover caught my eye.

Millie is an RA at the University of Arkansas. She's twenty-four, saving up to buy a house, and managing a class load all while RAing the Belgrade dormitory. She meets a cast of girls who are all in a suite together, Agatha who is a professor and writing an article about marriage, and other RAs on the floor. Each chapter drifts between these characters' POVs.

I struggled at some points to get through this book. I loved the writing style, enjoyed most of the characters, but not much happened until the last third of the book. And then it seemed like a lot happened out of nowhere.

I wound up giving this 3 stars. It was interesting, I liked the characters and the character growth, but felt like it was slow in the beginning and crammed a lot in the ending.

Thanks @Netgally for the opportunity to read Come and Get it. I am a big fan of Kiley Reid’s writing and this book is no exception. I have seen lots of mixed reviews for Cone and Get it and I can honestly say that they are all mostly accurate. The book doesn’t appear to have a solid plot but the writing is great, the story is engrossing, and the situations are going to be relatable to a lot of people. For these reasons, I recommend this book. I kept turning the pages and wanting to know what was going to happen next.

Millie is an RA for a dorm that primarily houses scholarship and transfer students. When visiting Professor Agatha Paul comes to do interviews with the students, Millie becomes entangled with her work. Millie is focused on graduating and earning enough money to buy a house which becomes derailed when she gets involved with Agatha. Overall, this book is centered on socio-economic status and race as it follows the different perspectives of the students, the RA, and the professor. It was uncomfortable reading at times since Agatha was clearly being unethical in her method of collecting information and using it to write articles without the participants permission. There was also a power imbalance in the developing relationship between Millie and Agatha. Millie worked really hard at her RA job, more than some of her fellow RAs, but it was overshadowed by her involvement with Agatha. The storyline between the three suitemates was interesting because it shows how each person can view the same events very differently.

Come & Get It is a book about power, money, privilege, ethics, and how race intersects with those. It's smart, but also dramatic and compulsively readable

his multi-pov novel is set in 2017 at the University of Arkansas following a lesbian professor/ journalist ostensibly researching her next book, and the RA and three students who become entangled in a very messy web of relationships. I feel like it's a good idea to go into this without knowing too much, but I absolutely loved it. What does it mean to be ethical in academia? How do power, sexuality, and race intersect in complicated ways? Will the mistakes we make define us forever? Should they? And how do power and privilege allow people to get away with unethical behavior, leaving casualties in their wake? This novel is exploring those questions, but through the stories of well-developed characters who are extremely human and the kind of mundane details that create a strong sense of reality and of place. If you loved Such a Fun Age, Come and Get It will not disappoint as a sophomore follow-up to a blockbuster novel.

Come and Get It managed to do everything that made Such a Fun Age great without being an echo of the same thoughts or sentiments. I love that Kiley Reid makes characters who feel wholly familiar. As a reader with the benefit of emotional distance from the situation and a few years on college students, seeing the absolute wreck of a situation coming got painful. Despite wanting to beg the characters to see reason, their decisions felt so real I can’t imagine they would have even listened. My only true complaint is how the southern accent was written in the book. It felt jarring and didn’t work for me. The audio helped me get right past that with some great narration when I switched partway through though.

Reid is exquisitely observant and I love the people watching in her character driven novel. As someone who came of age in the Southern evangelical church, the whole book was worth the page describing how church people talk about people they don’t like. I was dying over it and I’m sure it goes down as my longest highlight in a book. Overall I’d gladly recommend this!