Come and Get It tells the story of Millie Cousins, a resident assistant who has a mucky relationship with a visiting professor and three headstrong residents. All Millie wants is to graduate, buy a house and find a job. When Agatha Paul, visiting professor and writer, offers her a job Millie can't refuse. Thus begins a chain of events that get a bit messy.

There is one thing that I've learned and it's that this author isn't for me. I really struggled to get into this one and found the characters to be a bit immature. They felt more like college freshmen instead of juniors and seniors. Had they been younger I would have said that these characters are well defined and complex. In fact, they were but it just didn’t match the age they were. I couldn't get into the story either.

I tried to listen to the audiobook of this one, but sadly, it was a DNF. I loved Reid's first book Such a Fun Age and did the audiobook for that as well. I really enjoyed the narrator, but found that not much was happening in the plot. I think maybe if I read it it would have been a different experience. I thought about switching, but some others had told em that the plot doesn't really pick up.

I really like Kiley Reid’s character driven novels. the way this played out was fascinating and i’m really glad i picked this one up! I love how complex this story is tackling themes of race, class, ethics, grief, and more. The description of college was very vivid. These characters have stuck with me since I finished this book. I can’t wait to see what Reid writes next!

Thank you to Putnam Books & Netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

3/5 Stars ⭐️

Thank you to Penguin & Net Galley for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

This book was very intriguing to me. I initially requested it because of the cover I also really enjoyed the synopsis. This story like most Kiley Reid stories were very character driven and this was enjoyable to me! No plot just vibes kind of book that kept me glued to my kindle the entire time.

Kiley Reid does social commentary SO well. I was often cringing over the scenes that played out in this novel- they were expertly crafted. I really enjoyed the dorm life setting and the ethical dilemmas. While I didn’t love it quite as much as Such a Fun Age, I still found this to be a page turning character study.

Books like this remind me of my undergrad English Lit classes. We read and discussed many books with little to no plot. I dreaded every moment of reading this so I decided to put it down. I wish I read more reviews of this before requesting. It's not the book it's me.

I enjoyed this strange fly on the wall book following three friend groups of women as they deal with relationships and college and money. This book didn’t really have much of a plot and felt very slice of life but I was there for it. I really enjoyed the characters in this story they felt so real there were times I adored them and times when I was like what the heck are you doing. I have another book by this author on my bookshelf can’t wait to pick it up after this one. I really liked this authors writing the pacing was great I flew through this book. I would like to thank net galley and the publishers for a chance to read this book for an honest review.

A residential assistant who wants to graduate and buy a house gets entangled with a professor and three unruly students.

I usually don’t read reviews too closely before starting a book but in this case I was glad that I had. I went into this knowing it was a very character driven slow moving story. I think knowing that, I was able to enjoy how all the characters were fleshed out and how it all came together as things got incredibly chaotic. Reid’s writing is incisive and the dynamics she created are deliciously uncomfortable. I do think the right reader for this novel will have to have some interest in college age girl talk and all the bad decisions that come with that and be ok with unlikable characters. I also think this could have been a bit shorter, allowing the story to progress faster.

I found this book easily digestible and enjoyed the characters but the plot was lacking. I’m all for a character-driven novel but when the plot thickened I wasn’t that impressed and it felt a bit over the top to me. I enjoy Reid’s writing but I won’t be recommending this one as much as Such A Fun Age.

While the topic of this book is not of interest to me, the writing is very good. We meet a lot of characters. College students, their parents, RAs, a professor, and more. The setting is u of Arkansas. Fluid sexuality is explored. Those who are privileged and those who are dealing with socioeconomic challenges are a large part of the story. There is a lot of social anxiety. It’s worth a read. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

Synopsis: Millie is a RA at the University of Arkansas. She becomes entangled into the world of a professor, and 3 college students. Millie is working hard to save up money to buy a house, graduate, and ultimately land a job. Her involvement in the lives of the 3 colleges students, along with lending help towards research the professor is conducting, finds Millie in some unusual, and complicated circumstances.

For me, Come and Get It, did not stand up to Reid's 'Such a Fun Age'. In 'Come and Get It', Reid once again created such realistic, and complex characters, that I continued on to learn how their stories would end because I was so invested in them, however I didn't feel like the climax in the book really amounted to much. I was left wanting more, and I didn't feel satisfied with the ending.

While lacking plot, the characters in this book had such layers, and dimension. They truly came to life. I laughed aloud several times while reading, and I found the interactions between the characters to be vibrant, and real.

Reid did a great job drawing attention to race, micro- and macro-aggressions, and I wished we would have gotten more out of it in the ending.

I sincerely thank NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing an ARC, and allowing me to share my candid opinion.

ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

I would give this a solid 4.5 stars, I wish we could make half ratings! The story and characters and well built and written in a way that hold your attention throughout, even when not much of substance is going on. I enjoyed following the characters through living in college dorms and all the teen angst and drama that can feel like the end of the world. I would definitely recommend if you like YA fiction with lots of drama and mainly female characters!

Loved this one! I think we will be seeing it as a highly-sought after pick for a lot of book clubs. I highly recommend this unique story. It was even an Aardvark pick!

While I was a big fan of Reid's first novel, this one didn't stick with me. I enjoyed the premise, however I found the writing style to be repetitive and overly simplistic, and characters to be dull and one-dimensional. There is a bit of intrigue to hold the reader's attention, but overall this isn't a book I would recommend.

The new release from Kiley Reid (who wrote Such a Fun Age) is a look at college dorm life with a twist. Agatha is a professor and author who recently took a position at a Southern school while working on a new book. Agatha meets Millie, a black Resident Advisor when she enlists her help in interviewing students in the dorm. After her first evening, Agatha decides to change her work and becomes obsessed with listening into the mundane conversations happening amongst the girls on the dorm floor. Meanwhile Millie has developed a crush on Agatha as she hides in her dorm room to eavesdrop. Like Such A Fun Age, the novel is trying to make a statement on more- power relationships, money, race. While I did enjoy Such A Fun Age more, I really enjoyed reading Come & Get It and was excited to read it each night. There are a lot of characters in this book so just something to keep in mind if this is a reading pet peeve.

I remember reading that first chapter, and one of the characters thinks, “…practice paycheck… hmm that sounds a lot like fraud but sure” and I *felt* myself smirk and I was like, oh yeah, I am definitely reading a Kiley Reid book.

I settled in, I knew I was in good hands.

True with her debut, and even more skillful here, Reid is a shrewd observer of human behavior. These observations are sharp - in the truest sense of the word- you get the feeling that even you, the reader, can get cut.

For this reason, it makes sense for Come and Get It to be more of a character-driven novel. The plot not missing, but secondary to the playground of messy entanglements, ethical dilemmas, and exploration of class, race, and privilege.

Paced, not slowly per say, but deliberately. Every word seems necessary, even as you bounce POV to POV. You know you're getting to a point, though unsure of what it will be exactly. And then the climax hits you before you realize where you are; like a frog in water slowly being brought to boil. And how deliciously uncomfortable it all is.

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of reading this book as much as I enjoyed the book itself. I will continue to read anything and everything Kiley Reid wants to publish.

My first book by this author. I heard about it on Good Morning America and was lucky enough to get an arc through NetGalley. Unfortunately, it was not for me. Just didn't like the characters at all and it was hard to care about them. I did finish the book and was glad I did. Just not a favorite.

I loved Reid's debut and I loved Come and Get It. These characters are flawed and real, and so well written. The dialogue was so fun to read. Thank you so much for sharing the galley with me!

I have been waiting to read this much anticipated book from Kiley Reid, and it did not disappoint!

The writing is so amazing. Easily written but so hyper-realistic. The author does not try too hard, but you can see each word.

This book was deeply odd but incredibly engrossing. I found it similar to Such a Fun Age in certain ways - the big cast of characters, the small details, being very female-centric. It felt awkward in a very realistic way. It roused a little bit of college PTSD. I would recommend it but would probably be selective about who I told about it.