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Come & Get It

Kiley Reid

3.59 AVERAGE

aahowe96's review against another edition

3.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readwithrosalyn's review against another edition

4.0

Kiley Reid knows how to write messy, complicated characters that leave you unsettled in the best way. Come and Get It explores the power dynamics between a college student chasing financial stability and a visiting professor who is both alluring and ethically questionable. Their relationship is steeped in emotion, financial, and sexual tension.

The story asks bold questions: Can you feel sympathy for someone who kills a dog and keeps moving like nothing happened? Is it ever okay to take someone’s life story and profit from it especially without consent? Reid doesn’t hand you easy answers, and that’s what makes this book so compelling.

This is a slow burn that leans more literary than romantic, but it’s layered with sharp social commentary, class dynamics, and moments that made me pause and think. A solid 4 stars for keeping me uncomfortable and intrigued the whole way through.

lauraakers's review against another edition

4.0

I’ve seen a lot of reviews call this book pointless and plot-less, but it’s just very character driven which I love! I think Kiley Reid writes realistic characters and is straightforward in her style which makes her books quick and addicting to read. This book is set at a college with the main characters being a professor, RA, and a student who are all connected. They’re all essentially good people with interesting backstories, and the whole time they’re making bad decisions that as a reader made me anxious because you can just sense it’s all going to blow up somehow. Reid also does a great job of including daily micro aggressions and racism that are brushed off in the book but as a reader are like “wow that’s bad.” I really enjoyed this book, but there was something missing and the end felt a little rushed which is why it’s not 5 stars.

newenglandreadr's review against another edition

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Put this down as one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. How it started was not remotely how I thought it was going to end. The beginning focused a lot on Agatha and Robin’s relationship, which seemed to signify that there would be character growth between the two. And instead they seemed to slide backwards?
If that’s supposed to be the point of the book it just kinda fell flat because of the ending.

The dynamic between Agatha and Millie as a professor who’s paying her to basically eavesdrop was …. Problematic at worst and just weird at best. Why on earth would it seem appropriate to a professor to stay IN a dorm room? Just seemed weirdly out of character, and Agatha not realizing it was that inappropriate was again, just an odd choice for the book. “But she made the first advance” is a horrific excused and it seems to want the reader to side with Agatha’s actions.
The random sexual bits also just felt odd for the novel. It felt like a bad porno.

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