Come and Get It review: Boring and limp, this is exactly how not to follow a bestseller

Come and Get It is Kiley Reid’s breathlessly anticipated follow-up to her 2020 Booker long-listed triumph Such a Fun Age, which was lauded as an essential and nuanced satire of white privilege, racial microaggressions and gender politics. Published just before the Black Lives Matter movement, it became a key work in the canon of educational literature being shared on Instagram at that time. It was a slam-dunk of a debut. Yet, those who loved the razor-sharp observations and biting depictions of casual stereotyping should approach Reid’s second offering with expectations firmly lowered.