I stan Rufi Thorpe! Thorpe has done it again with Margo’s Got Money Troubles, which is wildly funny and heartwarming. I absolutely loved Margo and the shenanigans she finds herself in to support her baby. This book was so unique and laugh out loud funny, I will read anything Thorpe writes in the future!

Such a great blend of popular and literary fiction. The story is unique but still very relatable. It would have wide appeal.

thank you william morrow and netgalley for the digital arc!

sorry to everyone for wasting your time but this was so not for me LMAO and i should have known that. i cannot remember what inspired me to ask for this on netgalley, but that is a mistake that is my fault alone.

margo's got money troubles follows 20-year-old margo after the birth of her son, the result of a brief affair with her married professor. as a young single mother, margo turns to onlyfans to support herself and her son. navigating the world of online sex work as well as interpersonal relationships with friends and family, margo tries her best to provide for her child even though she is still practically a child herself.

i have many gripes with this book, which comes as a shock to absolutely no one who knows me. pregnancy in literature? not my vibe (you see my mistake here lol). affair with a professor? hard pass.

but my real issue with this book is the fact that it is too nice. WHERE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES?? i'm sorry, if a professor has an affair with a student, which results in her getting pregnant, and he responds by bribing her into signing an nda and dropping out to protect his reputation, he does not get visitation rights to the child!!!!!! this man impregnated a teenager!!! get that man a cell!!!!

also jinx's addiction storyline made me sooooo made. the enabling from margo actually made my blood boil. psa: if you find an addict passed out with a needle in their arm in your home, where an infant resides, that person doesn't get to keep babysitting said infant. you get them out of your home and into treatment.

i just wanted margo to get mean or mad or anything other than the plucky young heroine she was. it's just not real. i need some angst!! life cannot throw all of this at you and you just keep being happy and forgiving!! where is the arc!!

and jesus christ, don't even get me started on the romance subplot.

so yeah, this book wasn't for me. maybe it is for other people. but personally, i did not find it funny or empowering or heartwarming as the marketing would have hoped. mostly i just found it annoying!

sorry again, hater era rolls on

This is 100% different from what I thought it would be. It wasn’t funny and was very vulgar. A train wreck that you can’t help but watch and drive by slowly. There were many times I thought of dnf’ing but kept going on.

This is plot based so there's not much character growth and it goes from insane to insane. At the beginning I felt for Margo and her situation and it took a quick sharp turn into unbelievable levels. The constantly changing of 1st person to 3rd between chapters was really annoying too.

The main points of this book -
Only Fans
Margo pulling her “tit” out to breastfeed

Add in drug use, addiction and mushrooms with a custody battle. I just don’t know what to make of this and am flabbergasted that there’s lots of 5 star reviews. I am surprised I finished this.

Margo is very young and having to find her own way in life with everything stacked against her. She continues to dig her own grave deeper.

This story is available now and I received the e-arc from Net Galley and the publisher. While I won’t necessarily stop reading this author’s work, I would really do my own research about the plot and summary.

My expectations were a little low for this, based on the cover. Yep, I judge. I generally avoid those bright colored, adorable illustrative covers, but I requested this galley despite it.
A short, uninspiring romance ends in an unplanned pregnancy for Margo, who's far from ready for a baby. Naturally, everything in her life changes drastically, including her income earning options. However, she is nothing if not resourceful, and Margo stumbles upon a potentially lucrative job opportunity, but one that is largely looked down upon.
Her somewhat absent father also comes back into the picture, very newly sober, and ready looking to mend some fences. Of course, it's complicated.
This was entertaining and cute, but not cutesy. It was a pleasant surprise.
Thanks to #netgalley and #williammorrow for this #arc of #margosgotmoneytroubles in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this! So much fun, it was unique and emotional and just exactly what you'd expect it to be! Def a fave. Thank you netgalley for the arc.

This one really shocked me with how much I enjoyed it. It was tender, stressful, funny and heartbreaking- all at the same time- watching Margo navigate this journey. You get a bit of everything in this book. Thanks netgalley & the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Margo has troubles. Money troubles to start but so many others as she goes from being a college kid to growing into an adult. Like anyone with problems, Margo needs a support system and she finds her support in all of the unlikely places. Margo's Got Money Troubles shows that there is no one clear path to success and love. Margo and her tribe gather together to help each other and boost each other up. Definitely a feel good story!

Such a fun read. I didn’t really know what the book was about but sometimes those are the best reads. Margo Millet’s mother is a Hooters waitress and her father is an ex pro wrestler. She knows she is going to have to hustle to get some where in life and yet she really doesn’t have the gumption to do so. She enrolls in junior college and really likes it but gets caught up with a married professor and the affair is short but fruitful. Fruitful in the sense that the affair is over and she is pregnant. She is scared and upset but she knows she wants to keep the baby.
This is a here the interesting part comes. She is 29 with a baby, she has no money but does have an apartment. She has a roommate and her father comes and needs a place to stay. She allows him and has him help with the baby. She try’s her hand at an Only Fans account. She thinks it will only be an experiment but she finds she is rather successful at it and the money comes pouring in. The author shows the true Frist of a woman and a mom. Margo is smart and witty and her father and her roommate are all so human. I found some parts to be sad, funny but most of all hopeful. That given some of the worst cards to play, you can be resilient and rise about it all. Margo’s Got Money Problems by Rufi Thorpe was an excellent, original book. I want to thank Netgalley, William Morrow and the author for my copy for an honest review. It was an absolute pleasure to read and review this book.

DNF

I had really high hopes for this but I just didn’t like nor did I ever get into this story. 😔

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Margo’s Got Money Troubles was a laugh out loud, relatable, and down to earth story that I absolutely loved. Rufi Thorpe writes characters and stories in a way that seem realistic, yet highly entertaining. I was hooked from the first page & I would love to see a movie made of this book.


Thank you NetGalley & William Morrow for an ARC copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I absolutely LOVED this book! It's themes and characters were so unique and compelling. Can't wait to read more from this author!

that was... interesting. not as funny as I expected. the MC's life choices were really breaking the norm, so this book is not for the judgementals.

so Margo impregnated by her professor, decided to keep the baby, then realized too late that her life onward would never be the same and it's not as easy as she thought. her mother refused to aid her financial, the baby's father didn't want to be involved, her roommates moved out, she's fired because she couldn't find a nanny, and she needed money to support her and her baby. So she tried her chance at... OnlyFans.

unusual arrangements for the plot, for sure. but at least its heartwarming. devoured this in a day. loved the ending that full of hope and possibility.

Thank you to William Morrow and LibroFM for the copies to review.

My goodness I did not expect to love this one as much as I did! I started this one on audio while on a walk with Jaxx and ended up finishing it in basically one sitting, and I should note here that the audio was fantastic! This was delightful, relatable in that we’ve all done what we’ve had to do to survive at some point, and Margo is such a great protagonist that really came into her own by the end of the book. And can we talk about her dad? Adorbs. This in no way would ever be something I could do but I admired her courage, the support she got from her dad and how they were able to repair their relationship later in life, and I just genuinely loved this heartwarming gem of a book SO much.

Thank you so much for the advanced copy of Margo’s Got Money Troubles. As a new mom, I absolutely adored this story and related to a lot of the storyline. It was fun and endearing. Definitely recommending it to all my reader friends!

Unsure of what she wants out of life, Margo enrolls at the local junior college only to end up pregnant after a brief affair with her professor. When her ex-pro wrestler father shows up looking for a place to stay, she enlists him for help taking care of her baby and uses his lessons on charisma as inspiration for her foray into the world of Onlyfans. Margo becomes quite successful, but at what cost?

M A R G O ‘ S G O T M O N E Y T R O U B L E S
*includes spoilers*
okay, do you ever pick up a book without reading the back / inside cover for the summary? 😂 because that’s exactly what I did with this book. I’d seen this ARC raved about by all the big book bloggers so I knew it was going to be good. I usually have some inkling of what’s going to happen in a book but, blissfully unaware, legitimately there were parts of this book that SHOCKED me! (Impregnated by old professor, doing 🍄 with 2 crazy podcasters, starting an Only Fans account!). Despite the ultimate shock, I LOVED Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Margo is a creative, resiliant, and caring young woman who finds herself in one predicament after another. Ultimately she handles each with grace and kindness but in super-“unconventional” ways I venture to say. There were points of the book that I honestly wondered how the author wrote this book and made it such a page-turner. It was funny, relatable (in a sense? lol.), and cute. Would 100% recommend!

Wow, an unexpected gem! The premise (Only Fans? Professional Wrestling?) didn’t interest me much, but I am thrilled to have enjoyed to this one. I fell hard and fast for the characters and their journeys, even though they all had plenty of reasons not to love them. I devoured this, reading as often as possible. Another great reason not to judge a book by its cover (or its blurb)!

I loved this book so much! Absolutely worth the early hype it received across bookstagram. I laughed out loud, I shouted, my heart was warmed--this one is just a perfect summer read. Cannot wait to watch the adaptation!

I loved this book!! It was such a fun, funny, but also heartfelt coming of age story that I adored far more than I expected to. I alternated between kindle and audio, and both were great experiences!