lot of people hating on this book on twitter but i thought it was fine! i enjoyed reading it! such interesting characters! a simple and understated plot! descriptions that were easy to visualize! yay!

I was reluctant to read this book since I did not love Such A Fun Age. I will say that I was immediately pulled into this story from the first couple of pages. What unfolded was a college age drama where we think the main characters are behaving badly but honestly are just like any other character that we find in college.

I did enjoy Agatha's back story and thought that added a nice twist.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for allowing me to read an early copy of this book!

I really enjoyed this book--Kiley Reid in incredible at realistically but respectfully writing in the voice of multiple young women. Their dialogue is realistic but doesn't feel condescending. Definitely a slow burn but I felt like the payoff was worth it.

Was a fan of the authors debut and was looking forward to this read. It did not disappoint. There is something so punchy but quiet about her writing, it really speaks to me.

Come and Get It was the first of Kiley Reid's two books that I've read. I typically find it difficult to know which literary fiction stories I will enjoy, and I have a lot of unfortunate misses. Come and Get It was not a miss for me! I was entertained by this story and the interactions between the characters. I do find that I enjoy character work and don't always need a fast moving plot to draw me in. I look forward to reading Reid's backlist novel and anything she does in the future.

There's something about the snarky, observational way Kylie Reid writes that I love ("𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨."), and this character-driven story set predominantly in college dorms smartly examines race, money, and friendship. Not a lot happens but it still made me think. I can see why it was a GMA Book Club selection.

Thanks to Putnam Books for the copy to review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for my ARC copy! This review contains my personal thoughts and opinions.

I'm going to keep this review simple. "Come And Get It" unfortunately failed to deliver for me. I was interested in the premise of the book, but I felt that there was no real plot. The book really only had excessive and verbose dialogue which made it feel very slow.

Additionally, the lack of a clear climax made the story feel stagnant and directionless. Without a significant turning point or jaw-dropping moment, the story failed to engage me on a deeper level. I was a big fan of "Such A Fun Age" but highly disappointed in "Come And Get It".

Rating: 2/5

Come and Get It was a great satirical read. I appreciated the college campus setting. Reid has great commentary on the harm that can come from groupthink

I adored Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, so I had to pick up Come and Get It, and was not disappointed! This is a story of young hijinx meets mayhem, set in a college where anything and everything happens. Heavily character-driven, you'll dive deeper and deeper into the complex world of constantly chasing money, power, and influence.

I started this and it just didn't grip me. Unlike her first novel, I felt immediately out to sea and after 30 or so pages, I gave up. I might have to come back to it, but for now it's a DNF.

Very heavy on Character study and development so if that's something you enjoy then this is one you will enjoy. For me, i was hoping for at least a little plot but overall was a good story.

I loved every moment of this book. The way the character threads weave together keep me turning pages well into the night - I just HAD to see how the climax would play out as all of these characters' worlds and perspectives collided. A there was a big payoff at the end; such an entertaining and satisfying read.

Character study with very little plot. Great writing with (kind of) humor, (kind of) satire, and (kind of) a punch in the face. The characters were equally awful and also just kind of - normal? Like normal in that everyone is f*cked up in their own weird way.

Sadly, this one was hard for me to get into and I could not find a plot which I tend to notice with this author.

DNF @ 30%. Very character driven with too many different characters. If there is a plot I have not gotten to it yet. Thank you netgalley for the ARC.

I didn’t love this quite as much as I did Kiley Reid’s first book, which is to date one of my favorite fun reads of the last few years. That being said, I am a little surprised that people seem to be so frustrated and annoyed by this book (to a certain extent).

The issues I had with this book are in line with a lot of the other criticism it’s received. The book has a LOT of characters to keep track of. The book’s not-quite-linear but also not-non-linear storyline is kind of a headache and doesn’t really serve much of a purpose. The book is extremely character-driven without much of an overarching plot. Honestly the biggest issue I had was the absolutely mind boggling way that this book starts out and characters are introduced. The first 10-15% was so impossible to follow or keep track of characters, I was shocked at how unpleasant of a reading experience it was.

So, listen - I get it. I think all the criticism is fair and warranted and I also struggled with parts of this book. To me, though, almost all the issues I have were far outweighed by how brilliantly Kiley Reid writes dialogue. This was SO FUNNY in so many quippy little one-liners, and I just don’t think you could possibly ask for more rich characters especially in a book that’s so character focused. I felt like everyone in this book was so well developed and so perfectly forces you to wrestle the question of what differentiates a good person who sometimes does bad things, from a bad person who sometimes does good things.

My unpopular opinion is this would have been 5-stars for me had I not hated and struggled the beginning so much. Will absolutely enthusiastically continue to read whatever Kiley Reid writes.

Come and Get it by Kiley Reid is essentially a satirical take on doing what it takes to get to the top. Wealth, success, education, and a bunch of characters I could hardly relate to,. Race and ethics come into play, which is normally something I love, this just didn't do it for me.

Millie Cousins, a senior RA at the university of Arkansas has a chance encounter with a visiting professor Agatha Paul, and hopes to secure her future. This is essentially a character driven story, but I found that quite a few of them were forgettable and just surface level. Power and money eventually become some of the hot topics, but I found it mostly boring and the "bad behavior" predictable.

My sincerest apologies as to the lateness of this review. Thank you endlessly for the opportunity to read this ARC and offer my opinion. Life got really hectic and time ran out on me.

__ THE REVIEW __

Kiley Reid is a genius. I don't know how she pulls this shit out of her head but I'm jealous and would deeply like whatever creative forces are running around in her head, because I am sincerely missing them. As someone who is currently an RA on campus, the amount of BS that Millie goes through via residence education, residents themselves, and the phrase "on duty" truly gave me war flashbacks even though these flashbacks are basically current because, you know, I haven't graduated yet. The hyper-specific bond Millie forms with her RA coworkers was also impressively done, especially the shit-talking sessions in Millie's dorm that Kennedy, the cuckoo bananas Alix parallel in this novel, overhears through the vents. I especially loved the way Reid tapped into Millie's hustle mindset and her boundless determination to meet her goals by any means necessary.

Reid basically taps into her Dickensian, socially critical eye when she describes the ways in which money permeates every facet of the college experience. Agatha's truly exploitative behavior and the constant badgering of Robin about money, Millie's hustle mentality, the ways in which the residents and Res ED higher ups discuss money felt so real and true to life. I also don't even know how Reid manages to write dialogue that's so scathing and so real. Like I wonder if she makes herself cringe or laugh while writing.

Thank you Putnam and Netgalley for this opportunity. This is all part of an extensive effort to get myself back on track with my ARCs that I have severely fallen behind on.

📕Unpopular opinion is loading. It took me so long to get into this book and I had to pick up audiobook on the side so I can at least listen to it while doing laundry
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📗Kiley Reid again used money and job opportunities as anchor in the story. There is another girl here making money off of anything you can think of in addition to her job as an RA at a college dorm. But I couldn’t find a way to understand her reasons
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📘I really like Reid’s previous book, but this felt like several storylines were smashed together. Don’t @ me, I don’t have to relate to everything I read 🙂‍↔️

I was very excited for this book because I loved "Such a Fun Age" - it sparked such thought-provoking conversation with my book club. Unfortunately, "Come and Get It" fell really flat for me - there was not much of a plot and none of the characters were compelling enough to drive a good novel in the absence of a defined story arc.