I feel that the book is very human, so to those who do not like flawed characters, please be cautious. I loved the writing style and I really did enjoy how character driven and human it really felt. Overall I would give this a 3.5!

Life got in the way of me reading my NetGalley copy before pub date, but I so appreciate Putnam sharing it with me in exchange for my honest opinion. I mixed reading my review copy with listening to the audiobook.
Come & Get It is a character driven novel about race, money, power, and education. It took me a few different chunks of reading to finish it, and I’m not sure I fully understood the plot and its social commentary.

I became a huge fan of Kiley Reid when I read her debut, Such a Fun Age. While this is on the face of it a very different sort of book, Reid's strengths and voice are evident here. As with SAFA, Reid manages to create characters that are complicated and uncomfortable to think about, and through them leads us on a journey of exploration of race, gender, and power.

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Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
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I am so confused about this book. Did I love it? Did I hate it? Neither? I am still not sure. First of all, Such a Fun Age was one of my favorite books I’ve ever read, so I had extremely high hopes for this one, which is maybe not fair. Parts of this book kept me wanting to read read read, but when I put it down I quickly forgot about it and struggled to pick it back up. Then I got pretty into it and read the last half quickly.
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I do get that this was a character study, but I’m not sure I understand the points Reid was trying to make with it. I also feel like the ending had such potential to make her points clear and to really tie it all together, but the ending she chose felt like a big lead up to nothing. Not really sure yet, but I don’t think I will be recommending this one.

I tried a couple times to start this but had a really hard time getting into the plot and caring about the main character. not what I was expecting from Kiley Reid

A fascinating study in character, as the author of Such a Fun Age builds a tense and explorative story of race, gender, privilege, and power amidst a group of women connected by a shared experience in a college dorm.

I enjoyed the nostalgia of this book and it took me back to dorm life and the thrill of living on a college campus. While I didn’t particularly love the characters, I could relate to their inner dialogues and the anxieties of life at that stage. This book takes you on an emotional journey. I found it entertaining and am happy to have read it.

What an incredibly provocative read! I loved how engaged I became in Millie's challenges. Kiley Reid has written another stellar book!

Although this seems to be a polarizing book, I absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down. Loved the setting of a southern university and how the roommates turned on each other. Will be recommending and could be a great book club pick.

Come and Get It is Kiley Reid's sophomore novel about a residential assistant and her relationship with a professor. Ultimately, the novel differs from the author's first novel as it explores different relationship dynamics and is set on a campus. However, Reid's sharpness and wit found in her prose is still very much present in this novel. Reid excels in creating interesting conflicts and delving deep into characters and what makes them unique. The author's commentary on desire and what attracts two people in different places of their lives are explored in this novel intellectually and intriguingly. At no point did I think I knew what would happen next and Reid is excellent at creating enough tension and suspense that the reader is flipping to the next page.

Thank you to Net Galley for an arc to review.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing an advance copy in exchange for honest feedback.

I was excited to check this one out because I loved Reid's debut, Such a Fun Age, but this one didn't end up working for me. I was unable to finish the book as I couldn't click into the narrative. I am glad to see so many great reviews however, as I think this may have just been a book that didn't work for me specifically. If you like a campus novel, you'll be in luck!

I know, based on the reviews that this may be an unpopular opinion, but I think this is a much more well-developed, mature and subtle novel than Kiley Reid's first. Just as she did in 'Such a Fun Age', Reid explores the intersection of class, race, gender and sexual politics, highlighting the ways Black people in predominantly white spaces are constantly called upon to shape-shift and manage their various identities to survive and thrive.

In this one, Millie, a Black Resident Assistant in a college in the Deep South is designated to manage a hall, including a suite of three girls (two white and one Black). Through a variety of apparently innocuous occurrences, Millie finds herself drawn into situations where the petty gamesmanship of white women wielding their power and privilege against each other have far more dire consequences for her as a Black woman than it was ever going to have for them. Another unpopular opinion here: I think Reid's voice in her first novel was very much, in my opinion, written in a way that would appeal primarily to a white female readership and having gained their favor with that first novel, may have lost it with this one because what 'Come and Get It' portrays is a very specific, subtle and unique Black woman experience wherein, the process of making yourself palatable and unobjectionable as a Black woman may expose you to exploitation that is certainly more subtle but no less corrosive than the exploitation Black women have historically suffered in America. And boy is Millie ever exploited in this one.

I like this new voice of Kiley Reid's a lot. It feels like she's honing both her craft and her point of view. And more than just the incredible satisfaction of watching a good writer become even better, I liked the book's message. It makes me all the more perplexed that she was recently quoted as saying that art/literature should not be social justice. This novel—whether it was her intent or not—served up a vivid portrait of an enduring social injustice: that Black women's labor and personhood are often undervalued and simply consumed for the benefit and advancement of some group other than themselves.

Recommended. And thanks, NetGalley.

If you enjoyed Kiley Reid's other novel, Such a Fun Age, I think you'll enjoy this. I like scandalous stories with academic settings!

I appreciate the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a review.

I am not normally one for character driven novels but I just love the way Kiley Reid writes. The book gripped me from the opening focus group -- I know some people said it started slowly but I was HOOKED from the awkward interactions of the undergrads (and at times was reading through my fingers due to the racism and classism on display). This book is definitely about the vibes but I was feeling it -- I'll read whatever Reid writes next.

3 stars.

"Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid is scant on plot, but huge on characters. There are *so many people* in this book that it was difficult to keep them all straight. There is *a lot* going on here, but it also feels like...nothing happens?? This book is about the characters, their lives, and their differences, but to have a character study be about unmemorable people is sort of insane?? It's also about money, race, privilege, family dynamics, s3xual orientation, university life, and cattiness, but only in a micro kind of way on all of these fronts. It's the kind of book that feels like it's being deep without saying anything at all. It was challenging to continue with this story without DNFing it because the people in this story are such terrible, privileged, backstabbing people. Don't get me wrong, I love a good morally gray character, but these people felt like abstract concepts, not fully fleshed-out beings. It feels like there could be something deeper in and amongst the surface level, but I don't think Reid capitalizes on it entirely. This could have been an incisive commentary on power dynamics and inequity in the workplace, in relationships, and at universities, but I just didn't get that from this book. It's "fine," but I would not recommend it. That being said, I am looking forward to Reid's next novel!

Thank you to NetGalley, Kiley Reid, PENGUIN GROUP Putnam, and G.P. Putnam's Sons for the complimentary ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated for this review.

took me a while to finish this one and fully get into it. Once I did I really enjoyed it. Loved Kiley Reids “Such a Fun Age” so was excited for this one as well. Thank you netgalley for an arc in exchange for my review

I was very excited to read another kiley reid book, but unforutunalty this one fell short for me. The relationships felt stiff and overall i struggled to get into the book

Wow - this is definitely a huge left turn from Such a Fun Age, but I really enjoyed this one! This is certainly a book that is "no plot, all vibes" but if you love a campus setting, I think this would be a great book to pick up in the fall. Especially if you are a reader who enjoys exploring the complexities of privilege, money, and identity,

Kiley Reid is a wonderful writer! She makes these clever inside jokes that I have to research and her characters are incredibly compelling!
This second novel from her is fascinating in how people operate when it comes to money and status. I also liked the focus on people's things and how that shows who they are. You can never really tell what someone is like just through their things. At first, the novel seems very slow and it doesn't really pick up until halfway through the book but I am glad that I stuck with the book because all of the character development that I read paid off!