Another interesting read from KileyReid.
Her character development was amazing and the story was fresh and provocative.
I will definitely be handselling this book, as well as recommending it for a book club pick

3/5 stars

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy of Kiley Reid’s latest Come and Get It! This book was fine. Not great, not bad. Just fine. I had a hard time discerning where it was going plotwise, and when we got there, I felt like the ending was rushed. Mostly it was a character study, however, we were studying about 6 different characters and that felt like too many. They were all well written, but it was too many people to follow. Ultimately, Such a Fun Age by Reid was much better. I wouldn’t drop everything to read this one, but if you find yourself with time and this book, it was a quick read.

“Come and Get It” is a heart-wrenching, sharp, contemporary insight into college life and its consequences in North America. The book’s discourse on love and the impurities that arise in relationships influenced by mental health, drugs, age and power differentials, and ambition. I was astonished by the depth and complexity of all of the book’s characters, and even though I find myself with a sense of unease pooling at the bottom on my stomach as I read its final chapters, this is exactly the type of literary fiction that the world needs to better understand itself.

Totally serviceable. Reid does a good job of capturing voice and of creating characters who naturally must come into conflict with one another, though sometimes the way characters reacted to each other emotionally felt unjustified to the point of silliness. This was very quick read for me, and fairly compelling, but I don't think it will be quite memorable. Very of a kind with other midlist-y general fiction.

Following the success of her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid returns with another look at class and race. Agatha Paul arrives at the University of Arkansas as a visiting professor. Looking to interview women for her research about weddings, Agatha meets Millie Cousins, a resident advisor. But as Agatha interviews the residents in Millie's hall, she wonders how she can use what she finds about their views on class and race to her advantage.

There's no other way to say it. Come & Get It is a hot mess. Which is highly disappointing because Kiley Reid had all the right pieces to create a masterpiece. The opening chapter hooks you with fascinating characters and an implication that the story will collide into a powerful look at race and class. Instead, the novel goes nowhere, wandering into unnecessarily complicated backstories without any discernible plot. Yet, when a major event does finally happen at the 80% mark, the story just fizzles out, leaving you completely unsatisfied.

I struggled to get through this uninspired book so full of characters that have zero depth or evolution.

This college novel set at the University of Arkansas in 2017. Millie works for visiting professor Agatha Paul. Soon drama and intrigue about race, gender, and class bubble to the surface. This novels is all about the characters and the plot drags without much happening, but I enjoyed it because of Reid's observational humor on her characters.

This was an interesting novel, but seemed to be missing some pieces to make it all cohesive. Reid's writing is very well done though, and makes you want to keep reading.

I found this book to be meandering and pointless. I could not connect with any of the characters and started to feel annoyed with the way that “ohmahgod” was used. Also, is a pizza slicer really all that sharp?

There was a lot going on in this novel. Rather, there were a lot of people going on in this novel. I'm not sure if I fully understood what I was supposed to get from each of them, but they were very interestingly fleshed out. I think I'd read just plain character sketches from Kiley Reid because she has a way of making them both mundane and intriguing in the same way that, well, real people often are. There is a burst of action towards the end, but for the most part this book ambles along, dangling hints, and making us question the odd universes that exist within each human.

First of I love this cover! Life has been busy so this one took me a little longer to read but I never thought about giving up on it because the characters were so vivid and genuine that I did not want to give up on them.

Thank you to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley for my ARC of Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It. Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was my favorite read of 2021 and is one I still think about today. Reid has a way with describing characters and making you feel for the situations they are in.

Come and Get It is Reid’s sophomore novel and I was so excited when I got my hands on it! This is a story with many characters on a college campus in Arkansas. I found the story difficult to get into and slow to build. Unfortunately, this story was not a five star read for me like Reid’s first novel.

Kiley Reid is easily becoming one of my favorite authors! Her characters are so fascinating and realistic that even if they're not necessarily likable, you care enough to want to know what's coming next.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC! This is Kiley Reid’s second book after Such a Fun Age, which i enjoyed but didn’t love. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this much at all. The premise didn’t immediately pull me in and neither did the story. I DNFed at 50%. It just wasn’t interesting to me unfortunately.

Fascinating characters dealing with various moral and ethical issues. I found this more entertaining/relatable than her first book and it was so enlightening to delve into the flaws of all the characters. A true coming of age story at so many levels.

I honestly don't even know where to start in this review. It's very character-heavy with the tiniest little sprinkle of plot. You move between several POVs of college students and a professor at the same university. I could not summarize this book even on my best day. The ending is just so... unsatisfying, but like it's supposed to be? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed myself. Probably not as much as SUCH A FUN AGE, but I would love to continue reading Reid's future works.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid was an interesting character driven slow burn.
I thought her new contemporary fiction was hit or miss. I enjoyed the characters and the writing but it just felt a little flat to me. Still the story held my attention.
The diverse characters and setting pulled me in and kept me reading.

I would like to thank NetGalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for the opportunity to read this ahead of its publication date in return for my honest review.

Come and Get It is a character study, primarily about college students in dorm in a University in AR. Millie is a 24-year-old Senior, who is also an RA who excels at her job and has her future lined up. Kennedy is a Junior in the dorm where Millie is an RA, a transfer to the University from a previous college after an incident that she is trying to escape. Agatha is a visiting Professor, researching her future novel, but becoming wrapped up in the lives and financial circumstances of the women who live in the dorm. These women are our main narrators, but there are a varied cast of other characters involved as well.
Don't read this book if you aren't ok with little to no real plot, but lots of character development. I honestly normally have no problem with character driven books, but for this book, I still struggled to identify what the overall point was for the author. I'm still not sure what the aim was or what my takeaway should be after finishing it. The only truly sympathetic character is Millie and at the end she's left to deal with the consequences of her actions after a misunderstanding involving her residents.
The book is, at a glance fun and satirical, and there are many funny moments throughout, but the book itself just felt aimless. After weighing my thoughts upon completion, I don't feel this book merits higher than a 3 star rating. It's ok, but it's not memorable.
Thank you to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley for the electronic ARC of this novel for review.

This story was a slow and difficult to finish read for me. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but maybe college students would relate more.

The good: I loved the setting. You don’t see a ton of college set books in Southern Universities.

The not as good but not super bad: it felt like there wasn’t much of a plot sometimes. It was all vibes, character driven. I enjoyed it thoroughly but can’t tell you exactly why