Name: Come and Get It
Rating: 3.416666666666667 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9781526666048

Kiley Reid

The author of bestselling phenomenon Such a Fun Age returns with a fresh and provocative campus novel about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour

One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club

Come and Get It

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students. It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion, and bad behavior—and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

This book is both about the butterflies flapped their bastard wings on the other side of the earth many years ago and the resulting tsunami. Every new chapter was me going "Ohhhhhhhhh" while trying not to flinch. Masterful. I am obsessed with the way that the author conveys the minutiae that flesh out the three long and intertwined POVs and I am really obsessed in the first place how she manages to capture the very cruel irony of coincidence. Obviously you remember it's fiction and intentional but for a brief moment it feels like a story someone is telling you, and you just can't help yourself and go, "What are the odds?" when you know very well the odds are 100/100. That is the biggest strength of this book. 

shaye

Lucky Draw #102 

This book is both about the butterflies flapped their bastard wings on the other side of the earth many years ago and the resulting tsunami. Every new chapter was me going "Ohhhhhhhhh" while trying not to flinch. Masterful. I am obsessed with the way that the author conveys the minutiae that flesh out the three long and intertwined POVs and I am really obsessed in the first place how she manages to capture the very cruel irony of coincidence. Obviously you remember it's fiction and intentional but for a brief moment it feels like a story someone is telling you, and you just can't help yourself and go, "What are the odds?" when you know very well the odds are 100/100. That is the biggest strength of this book. 

Very readable but also hit a few of my pet peeves 

Tom Koss

some may say i forgot to write a review for this any they would be incorrect, i didn't forget (hmm)

if you are a nosy person and want to know everything (like me) you will enjoy following the stories of Agatha and the college students where she works and how some intersect and some don't, but if you're not nosy you won't lose anything if you give it a try
honestly i loved this one more than i thought i would, but would not recommend to anyone who isn't into character driven books bc it can get quite messy and as some would say "plotless" (it has plot i swear) 
for me it was a solid and enjoyable 4 star read thanks to the characters and the setting that i would consider would be a realistic depiction of life on a southern American university campus

i'm all for the "no plot, just vibes" books and this one definitely enters that category for me but at the same time it left me wanting a little more, usually when there's no plot i ask a little bit more of the characters you know? personalities, background stories, complex decisions and all that, but this one felt very flat. don't get me wrong, it was entertaining and felt like a gossipy little book but that was all.

are the characters super complex and interesting? not really, they're just you're classic college students who give no idea what to do with their lives and they're little asswholes to everyone.

the professor and millie's relationship? here me out, (and probably spoilers here) for some reason the whole thing at the beginning didn't seem like a bad decision for me but when it all exploded i found myself thinking

"was i gaslighted just now?" i felt icky and weird and i think that was the point of her character, millie was played and used and she thought she was ok with it but overall we all knew it wasn't and when they started to explain why it all made sense but also how did i not notice it before? why did i find it normal or even fun? personally i think it was because i'm still young and a little naive (like millie) and think that everyone just says the honest thing and won't do anything wrong but at the same time i know i should not trust everyone at first glance.

auri 🪐

i'm all for the "no plot, just vibes" books and this one definitely enters that category for me but at the same time it left me wanting a little more, usually when there's no plot i ask a little bit more of the characters you know? personalities, background stories, complex decisions and all that, but this one felt very flat. don't get me wrong, it was entertaining and felt like a gossipy little book but that was all.

are the characters super complex and interesting? not really, they're just you're classic college students who give no idea what to do with their lives and they're little asswholes to everyone.

the professor and millie's relationship? here me out, (and probably spoilers here) for some reason the whole thing at the beginning didn't seem like a bad decision for me but when it all exploded i found myself thinking

"was i gaslighted just now?" i felt icky and weird and i think that was the point of her character, millie was played and used and she thought she was ok with it but overall we all knew it wasn't and when they started to explain why it all made sense but also how did i not notice it before? why did i find it normal or even fun? personally i think it was because i'm still young and a little naive (like millie) and think that everyone just says the honest thing and won't do anything wrong but at the same time i know i should not trust everyone at first glance.

“To write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen.”

YESSSSSS but ironic bc this book needed red pen. Still straight up binged this tho

Margo Koss

“To write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen.”

YESSSSSS but ironic bc this book needed red pen. Still straight up binged this tho

Come and Get It One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club

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