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Come & Get It

Kiley Reid

3.59 AVERAGE

lm542's review against another edition

3.75

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sdonovanlynch's review against another edition

3.0

It's probably a challenge to write something as great as Such A Fun Age for a follow-up, and i suppose it's not fair for readers (or this one, anyway) to be disappointed when it's not as good. But it's not as good. The author nails a lot of things - money/power/age dynamics, in particular - and revisits, in some sense, the set-up of Such A Fun Age - late 30s white woman who should know better, in a monetary and overly invested social relationship with a much younger black woman. The character sketches are good, and I did ultimately care about at least Millie, the 24 year old RA. But I found a lot of it required quite an effort of suspended belief, as to the set up, and there was very little surprising about the denouement. It was a SLOW start, so many characters, so little plot. More social commentary than narrative, imo. Quite funny in places.

emcard7's review against another edition

3.0

funny sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I liked the first 60%, but then it felt like the book went off the rails. Not a satisfying ending.

nmcevoy's review against another edition

3.0

felt like snooping and gossiping on some randos and then watching everything blow up, very character heavy but i loved it

lkolo's review against another edition

3.75

emotional medium-paced

roots_and_reads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

aywebster's review against another edition

3.0

Easy read, nothing too terribly heavy here. I don’t know exactly what I expected, but usually when I see someone reading Such a Fun Age, they’re the most basic people ever- so I guess those same people would like this too. I hate to sound so “pick me,” but most of my favorite books are more challenging than this, so it just wasn’t for me. I enjoyed listening to this book because I forgot what it was about and didn’t know where it was going, but I lost a lot of interest after the table-setting ended and the falling action began. Official rating: just fine :/