A review by marinabkat
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

dark reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Come and Get It covers queer and academic race-conscious antics in Arkansas. For fans of Mean Girls, The Colour Purple, Mona Lisa Smile, & Conversations with Friends. The main three characters feel like people I understand deeply, and the hypothetical narratives of situations they all craft are poignant and relatable. This one was definitely a page-turner too! Boiled down a lot of societal dynamics into relationships, in such a way that did feel like I was in on some real gossip. Great job Kiley Reid. 

SPOILERS:
There’s no way that Millie would have told Peyton to put the dishes on Kennedy’s bed. The step in that situation is to actually draft a roommate agreement and get it signed and hold all roommates to it—RAs are trained in mediation strategies like this, and at the time she did it she still cared enough to adhere to helping Peyton, especially. 
The ending scene with Agatha and Tyler in the car pissed me off. I feel like it took a lot away from both of their characterizations though I liked the end product being that Agatha funded her dog being pretty apt/funny. 
I do wish that all the suite mates were pinpointed by where they were in the suite at the beginning of the book—I kept forgetting Jenna and Casey, and then they were really important. 
I wish Aimee’s motivations were fleshed out more—no one would care about an RA this much without some rationale.

ARC NOTES:
In Chapter 5: “The drink like a shot put, deeply lacerate her hand” doesn’t make sense 
In Chapter 5: “Agathas fifty items fit in two” is missing an apostrophe for the possessive 
In Chapter 6: Is brown leg a type of spider or is it literally three legs of one spider? Confusing 
In Chapter 8: “My blood is on cocaine right now” is intended to read immature, but it reads weird and off instead… drug use could be a theme without this 
In Chapter 11: All three words “to be like” should be italicized because that’s what’s distinct and makes the sentence make sense without those words—emphasizes all three words Colette is adding (right now only ‘be’ is italicized) 
In Chapter 16: Consider swapping OB tampons for applicatorless… branding seems unnecessary and the people who don’t know what OB tampons are won’t know that they are applicatorless 
In Chapter 22: When talking about the mom with MS there’s a missing space in ‘been living’ so it’s currently ‘beenliving’ 
In Chapter 29: See? Bad RA. has two periods after it
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