Thanks so much for the review copy. I liked this book better than Such a Fun Age. I enjoyed the character development and how the characters were connected throughout the book.

This is a story about a college dorm and college age girls and their roles and dynamics within a group. Sounds great, right? Hmm, just didn't work for me this time. I felt like the author jumped around quite a bit and every character fit one or two stereotypes, like she had to include race, sexual orientation, wealth . . . but then never quite developed them to tell me why it mattered, or why someone acted the way they did because of it or in spite of it.

The story is set in 2017 at the University of Arkansas and centers around Millie Cousins, a 24-year-old senior who is ready to graduate, get a job, and buy her first home. Millie is a resident assistant at a dorm that primarily houses scholarship and transfer students. This book also follows Kennedy, Tyler, and Peyton, who live in the suite next door to Millie, and Agatha, a visiting professor and writer.

Millie is a complicated, layered character but ultimately so compelling that you never consider not rooting for her, and Reid has such an ear for dialogue. I enjoyed reading about Millie and her dormmates and reminiscing about my own college days. While some parts were a bit over-dramatized, I felt that the author accurately captured life as a female collegian. Overall, this was a fun and quick read, and I am excited to see what Kiley Reid does next.

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Life is messy and we are all flawed. Kiley Reid's latest explores college life and the personalities encountered. There is a student with a sense of entitlement, everything they want they deserve and can justify regardless of its impact on others. There is the college professor who should know better but takes advantage of a student who is easily manipulated. The same student has her goals in life and while she has a moral code it frays when faced with money that can help her achieve her priority of buying a house. Then there is the very vulnerable student who loses her sense of who she is after a trauma.

Kiley Reid's books can read at a superficial level like fluff. You need to peel back layer by layer to see the vulnerabilities and micro aggressions about power, money and race in her books. She holds up a mirror and dares us to take a good look.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Putnam for this advanced reader copy.

Didn’t connect with any of the characters. I may return to it closer to publication- one of those books where I’d like to see how it is framed in the NYT Book Review. As Reid’s debut was smash hit, I will be watching to see how this book is handled. Not a favorite for me.

Reid does it again with this masterful coming-of-age story. Set at a mid-western university, this book follows a Professor, RA, and group of students in a dorm. With much of the plot taking place on a typical American dorm floor, Reid examines class, gender, and sexual orientation in an incredibly fresh and unique way. Reid takes typical power dynamics in academia and flips them on their head to show them in a new light. The characters shine and feel as if they could walk off the page. The chapters could have used more transition between them as the flow felt clunky at times, but overall this book is a great success.

Fun and well crafted campus novel, not quite the feat that her previous book was but still touches on important truths about friendship, sexuality and identity. I thoughtful yet comedic literary women’s fiction.

I loved such a fun age and this book by the same author was no different in terms of my reaction and responses. She really builds complex storylines and characters that take you on a ride. Definitely recommend.

2.75 - Well . . . after reading Such a Fun Age (such a thought provoking book) I was so excited to read this one . . . but for me this just really fell flat. First, there are a lot of characters and quite honestly I just didn't really care about any of them and I'm not sure why. This is a story about a college dorm and college age girls and their roles and dynamics within a group. Sounds great, right? Hmm, just didn't work for me this time. I felt like the author jumped around quite a bit and every character fit one or two stereotypes, like she had to include race, sexual orientation, wealth . . . but then never quite developed them to tell me why it mattered, or why someone acted the way they did because of it or in spite of it. I kept reading and reading sort of waiting for a big revelation or something big to happen and while there is a bit of an event it really just wasn't much and it kind of fell short for me as well.

I would give this author another try b/c I really did like her other book, Such a Fun Age, but this one was just a bit too boring for me - and maybe that was her point - a year in the life of college students and their every day things they do - but for me it was just boring.

Also, no clue where Come and Get It, the title, comes from - maybe that is why I kept waiting for something big to happen. Come and Get what?

Thank you to NetGalley, Kiley Reid and Penguin Group Putnam for this ARC.

"Come and Get It" is Kiley Reid's follow-up novel to her best-selling debut, "Such a Fun Age." While exploring themes of money, power, and race, this novel is about a resident assistant and her relationships with a professor, unruly residents, and her fellow RAs.

The story is set in 2017 at the University of Arkansas and centers around Millie Cousins, a 24-year-old senior who is ready to graduate, get a job, and buy her first home. Millie is a resident assistant at a dorm that primarily houses scholarship and transfer students. This book also follows Kennedy, Tyler, and Peyton, who live in the suite next door to Millie, and Agatha, a visiting professor and writer.

I enjoyed reading about Millie and her dormmates and reminiscing about my own college days. While some parts were a bit over-dramatized, I felt that the author accurately captured life as a female collegian. Overall, this was a fun and quick read, and I am excited to see what Kiley Reid does next.

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

So, this is a new one for me because, well, while I enjoyed the hell out of this book I couldn't give one single reason why. I deeply suspect there is something I didn't really get, actually, because there is clearly more going on that it would seem.

I really enjoyed SUCH A FUN AGE so I was very excited to read Kiley Reid's follow-up. Thrilled to say that it does not disappoint and I think I loved it more than her debut. COME AND GET IT is a character-driven campus novel that centers on young women at the University of Arkansas. The story brilliantly captures all of the delicate intricacies of female friendships/relationships that are essentially forced due to the (sometimes suffocating) proximity of a college dormitory. I appreciated how well drawn all of the college girls were, but also the plot device of including Agatha, the journalist, and her involvement. There's something about a woman in their mid 30s looking back on that pivotal time of college that really added to this unique mix of characters. I knew the story was building to some explosive moments, a handful of which were expected, which isn't a knock on the story, but I was especially surprised and captivated by one of the turns in particular. This would be a fantastic book club read -- in fact, I may suggest it for my own when the time comes!

I was hopeful about this book, while there were some parts of it that were interesting and made me think, overall it was too dramatic and not real for me. When there is too much going on, i no longer can take it seriously and think the points can me made without all the overdramatization It was a quick read and i think others will like it more than i did.

Kiley Reid is a master of time. This book has a number of storylines that are told in a nonlinear fashion but Reid ties it all together beautifully.

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Thank you @putnambooks and @netgalley for the eARC. This comes out Jan 2024!

I personally went into this blind and am glad I did - you can trust that you're in good hands with Reid.

We explore similar themes as in SUCH A FUN AGE, power, race, microaggressions and some new themes, ostracization, exploitation, and bullying, and we follow along with several main POVs which I think always makes for a more interesting compulsive story.

This is a campus novel, centering a dorm building primarily for scholarship kids, transfer students and juniors/seniors. We follow a young Black RA (one of the few Black kids that we hear of), and a few of the kids on her floor as well as an older teacher / journalist who's conducting research but ends up getting derailed by other interests as sparked by a small group of white girls that she interviews.

What I appreciate the most is that while there are very serious issues that the book deals with, it's not written in such a way that it's called out so obviously. We are experiencing along with each of the characters and the dialogue is that good, that there's a natural flow to everything. People are complicated and dimensional. We hate/like some people, and depending on what you know about someone your sympathies grow enormously.

I can't wait to talk to someone about this because there is a lot to discuss!! This is going to be a great buddy read/book club book.

3 stars- I absolutely adored the author's first novel so I had high hopes for this. This one fell flat for me, pacing felt a bit off. While characters can be unlikeable, I couldn't connect with any of them. Thanks netgalley & the publisher for the ARC, in exchange for an honest review

Tense story but the dry, detached prose completely turns it off. Not for me but I'm sure the gen fiction crowd will eat it up

This book is SO GOOD. I was already a fan of Reid’s after Such a Fun Age, but this is even better. Millie is a complicated, layered character but ultimately so compelling that you never consider not rooting for her, and Reid has such an ear for dialogue. This book made me laugh, cringe, and mourn when it was over.

QUICK TAKE: Kiley Reid definitely knows how to open a book. She follows up the fantastic SUCH A FUN AGE with another sharply-written coming-of-age story about a group of women living in and around a college campus and the micro- and macro-aggressions that inform their relationships and conflicts. Very character-driven, which I love.

To say I loved this book is an understatement. I related to it so much despite the fact that I am a GenXer. I’ve come to realize that I love books like this. Just a flash of people’s lives and how they live in the moment. Kiley Reid is so, so good at this! The characters are so diverse, that you can’t believe one person is giving them their voices. So many of the characters are unlikeable, but I still liked them, she made them so human, that you can’t help but want to know more. I definitely want to know how some of their lives turned out. It shows how much people can make mistakes but actually redeem themselves in the end. I wish all people were like that. Isn’t wit for more from Reid! She is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

I know this will be a popular book based on Kiley Reid in general (and I get it!). I somehow feel like I missed a few things in this one and I’ll be curious if others feel the same way I really loved the beginning, felt like the middle of the book was super jumbled and loved the end and somehow I couldn’t put it down. I was excited for a storyline that is unique and this one definitely delivers. I’m eager for my friends to read all about Agatha, Millie, Tah-ler, and Kennedy (the names in this book just hit the nail on the head) and the stories that weave them together.