Rufi Thorpe has given us another weirdly wonderful story following Margo and her new venture into motherhood.
I loved Margo and Jinx and were rooting for them the entire time. Filled with actual funny moments, and some a bit frustrating (in the way where I just want Margo to succeed!) - the writing is tender, unique and at times quite emotional.

I loved The Knockout Queen, so knew I had to give Margo’s Got Money Troubles a whirl and I’m so glad I did! Cannot wait for the A24 adaptation of this.

This book was basically the complete opposite from what I was expecting. It was incredibly funny and endearing. I loved every element of this book. There were some real and deep moments that I was not expecting. Margo is relatable and honestly I saw a lot of myself in her. There were times I wanted to just reach across the page and give her a hug because oh boy, did she need it or what? Overall, definitely not a book for everyone but I really enjoyed it!

A poignant story on the lengths a mother will go to in order to give her child the best life possible.

I was absolutely blown away with Rufi Thorpe's newest novel, "Margo's Got Money Troubles". It seems that everything that can go wrong for Margo will. The beginning of the books is tough to get trough emotionally as we follow Margo along on her quest to raise her baby as best she can with absolutely NO help from the father, family, friends. When her father comes in to save the day, I let out a sigh of relief!

Margo's story is one that will allow you to "walk a mile in her shoes" and help you empathize with someone who is willing to do anything to take care of their child. While it is easy for us to pass judgement on what way one earns a living or how they choose to live their life, at the end of the day, we learn Margo (and I"m sure many other people) are doing whatever it takes to get by in this crazy and tough world.

BRAVA to Rufi Thorpe for another fantastic book that will no doubt change the way you look at others.

I LOVED this book! It was filled with lovable, quickly characters, as well as an odd story that I could not read fast enough. The Only Fans storyline was fascinating, but I was rooting for Margo throughout the whole story. Loved the LA setting. This will be a HIT this summer, I just know! My favorite by this author!

Margo’s Got Money Troubles is one of my favorite reads of 2024 and I immediately ordered all of Rufi Thorpe’s backlist upon finishing. Hilarious, heartwarming, and weird. The perfect trifecta. If you like quirky stories with characters you will fall in love with and never forget, you need to read this one.

Huge thanks to Netgalley & William Morrow Publishing for an eARC ♥️🔥


Meet Margo Millet, a young woman who's just trying to figure things out. She's got a pretty unconventional family - her mom was a Hooters waitress and her dad was a pro wrestler! But when she gets pregnant at 20 and finds herself alone, she's gotta think fast.

Enter her estranged dad, Jinx, who offers to help out with childcare... for a price. Margo agrees, and soon she's using his wrestling wisdom to build a super successful OnlyFans account. It's a wild ride, but it just might solve her money problems!

As Margo navigates the ups and downs of online fame, she's gotta confront some tough truths about herself and her place in the world. But with the help of her dad and a cast of colorful characters, she's determined to make it work.

This book is a hilarious and heartwarming ride, full of sharp insights and lovable moments. Margo's just trying to figure it all out, and her journey is a reminder that we all have the power to control our own stories.♥️

I really did not know what to expect , but was very pleasantly surprised. Margo is a young adult who gets pregnant during an affair with her college professor and decides to keep the baby against the father's family wishes. She has to learn to navigate young adulthood while also being a new single parent. Through the course of the story she gets to know her often absent father and develop a relationship with him. I really liked the plot and pacing of the story as well as the humor. The characters each had their own quirks but were likeable and realistic.

Name of Book: Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Author: Rifi Thrope
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Publisher: William Morrow
Pub Date: June 11, 2024
My Rating: 3.3 Stars
Pages: 304

This starts out with author Rifi Thrope writing to us readers about the anticipation we feel when starting a new book. How our first hope is that is that the first lines an urgent magic will take place. True there are some books that you are not in love with right away but they grow on you.
Yep so true. I am big thriller fan and this offers something new and different plus I thought the cover was great.

Margo Millet is the child of Shyanne who works at Bloomingdale and her father James is a promoter. They met when Shyanne worked a Hooters waitress and James at the time was called Jinx. Margo is the result of their one-night stand. Although James/‘Jinx’ was married at that time he wanted to be part of the child’s life.
Now Margo finds herself a soon to be single mom at nineteen and indeed has money trouble.
She had to drop out of Fullerton College. Mark Gable is the father and Margo’s English professor and not interested in the child - to him this was just a fling nothing more.

Shyanne and Jinx both are supportive of Margo’s decision. Margo however has few employment options. Jinx mentions OnlyFans. Margo states she doesn’t know what it is. She knew as a promoter he did media publicity. He tells her –‘No it is nothing like that”.
Like Margo I had no idea and did a Google search
OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service based in London, United Kingdom. The service is used primarily by sex workers who produce pornography.

With this I thought two things
1. Perhaps this story isn’t for me
2. I am rather sure I am not going to find this wildly funny. Yes audacious and unpredictable.

I hung in there as I like Margo and know she wants to be a good mom. Story does show a lighter side and the message come through that it is difficult it is to be female who has money troubles

Want to thank NetGalley and William Morrow for this early eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for June 11, 2024.

I’m surprised at how much I connected with Margo. I rooted her on throughout the book, especially during her custody battle with Mark.

If I could tell my younger self anything it would be this… “Yes, she was naive and an idiot. Too young and too stupid …But she was strong. And determined. If there was anything she’d learned, it was that strength and stubbornness were not nothing.”

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.

This was fascinating and will work so well as a show.ni loved her dad.

I don't read much contemporary fiction, but I loved this. It's even more than the description, which already sounds like a lot. The writing is strong and the author never judges her characters, making you imagine yourself in all of their shoes too. I am incredibly uninterested in content creation and social media influencers, and there were only a few paragraphs detailing making tiktok videos that I could have lived without, so I think it works even if you're not that fond of the Gen Z internet. The book has a lot of heart.

All it took was a blurb from Kevin Wilson and I knew I had to read Margo’s Got Money Troubles.
The book’s plot is funny on its own but there’s also this whole other level of weird humor. For example, the story is told in the third person, but yet it’s Margo writing the story in third person about herself. And then it’ll switch back to first person. Like Thorpe just wanted to mess with my head. I didn’t find this book laugh-out-loud funny. It was more of a ha - made you think there, didn’t I - funny. It’s this sort of philosophical humor about real vs. fake. Does that make any sense?
Margo is 19 when she gets pregnant by her married English professor. Typically, he professes undying love until she decides to keep the baby and then poof. Broke, unemployed, she creates an OnlyFans account. Meanwhile, her mostly absentee dad, Jinx, a retired wrestler, moves in with her after a stint in rehab. He becomes a font of helpful info about creating a persona.
Margo isn’t a character I’d usually relate to. But I loved that she found a way to make things work for her. And I adored Jinx. His unique way of seeing the world drew me in. I may never think of pro wrestling in the same light again. Flip side, her mother was a real piece of work and I found it wonderful that Margo was willing to be so understanding.
Kudos to Thorpe for a unique premise that was well executed. It’s rare that a book can combine humor with what are some pretty deep thoughts, especially when it comes to a woman’s empowerment. It’s been a while since I read Kurt Vonnegut, but it kind of had a similar vibe. This would be a great choice for a book club that wants something a little offbeat but still makes you think.
My thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins for an advance copy of this book.

okay, I was dragging my feet with this one at first, but I ended up really loving it. so full of heart. I was truly rooting for Margo at the end, though there were times at first I wasn't sure I would be. the Only Fans/wrestling/TikTok aspects of blurb were alllllmost enough to put me off from this book. but it's so really about so much more: family, who deserves love and respect, navigating modern motherhood. Margo and Jinx really grew on me, and even the unlikeable characters were well fleshed out and ended up being relatable.

I do think the baby (sleep, milestones, mannerisms) was pretty unrealistic though lol

Margo’s Got Money Problems is not one of my typical reads but I loved it! Filled with many laugh-out-loud moments, this unique story is also surprisingly emotional at times. I absolutely loved Margo and rooted for her throughout. This was such a fun, contemporary novel and I highly recommend it!

Even though the book hasn't been published yet, it has already been adapted for television as a series and will be produced by David E Kelly and A24. The series will stream on Apple TV and will star Dakota Fanning.

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe will be available on June 11. Many thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for the gifted copy!

A young, single mother (and daughter of a professional wrestler) clumsily turns to the digital world of OnlyFans to make a living. I found this book to be thoughtful, funny, and heartwarming! I fell in love with the characters and simply didn't want the story to end.

I was very fortunate to receive an advanced reader copy from NetGalley but all thoughts are unbiased and my own!

I never would have picked up this book on my own based on the blurb, but after seeing how it was picked up by Apple and A24 I wanted to give it a shot. Long story short: I loved it.

This book gave me the whole range of emotions! I was laughing out loud, feeling very stressed for the characters because of choices they made, but also I got the warm fuzzies at times. I loved how Margo and her family was written, I had a love hate relationship with her parents, but it made them human. Speaking of Margo, that’s my GIRL. She was so realistically written and the entire time you couldn’t help but root for her.

The book itself covers lots of modern day topics like OnlyFans and TikTok and social media. When I read books that tackle these modern elements I worry they won’t age well, but for this book it really didn’t seem like a problem. It wasn’t “chronically online” if that makes sense, but did a great job capturing the realistic side of these social medias and their impact on our society.

From a technical perspective readers are introduced early into the book the flipping of points of view from first to third person which I found to be really interesting and cool. I almost like analyzed the why behind this when I was reading which made me feel closer to the character.

Loved it and want to already read it again.

This book is a solid 4 star read and is unlike anything I have read in a long time. Margo gets knocked up at 19 and decides to keep her baby. Despite being so young she knows she has to do something to make ends meet and provide for her baby. Margo decides to delve into the world of OnlyFans to see if she can make ends meet. This book was quirky and I loved every minute of it. The characters were so likable. I loved how strong and smart Margo was even though she was young and naive. I fell in love with her dad Jinx- the lovable ex pro wrestler. My WWF/WWE loving heart absolutely loved the wrestling references sprinkled throughout.

Dear Rufi- WIll you please make another book with these characters? There are so many places you could take this book- or please make a more wrestling heavy book! This was fantastic!!

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for this advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you William Morrow and Netgalley for an advanced copy of " Margo's Got Money Troubles". I didn't really know what I was getting into after reading the synopsis of this book, and I honestly am not sure if I liked the book or not after reading it. Margo is a college freshman who gets pregnant by her college professor. Even though everyone in her life is telling her not to have the baby, she does and is shocked how her entire life changes. She realizes quickly that taking care of a baby is time demanding and expensive, so she sets up an OnlyFans account to get extra money. While I honestly didn't love the premise of the book, I genuinely liked Margo who showed how far parents would truly go for their children.

Here’s my confession: when I read the premise for MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLE I initially passed this story by. I was confident I was not the target audience for a book about a young mother supporting herself by being a cam girl on Only Fans and her father who is an ex WWE wrestler.

Boy, was I wrong.

Dare I say these characters doing life on their own terms captured my heart? Margo’s uphill battle and abrupt entrance into adulthood/motherhood had me rooting for her successes, despite her unconventional methods to get there. I have to hand it to Margo– this girl is creative!

Rufi Thorpe challenges reader’s perceptions of what it means to be not only a good mother, but a good person. Themes of addiction and consent loom heavy, but the found family trope brings the story straight to heart.

READ THIS IF YOU:
-are skeptical about this premise (please try it anyway!)
-have ever felt down on your luck
-are intrigued by a screen adaptation starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning

RATING: 4.5/5 (rounded up to 5 stars)
PUB DATE: June 11, 2024

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an electronic ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a fun and wild look at what it takes to make it in the world in 2024 with little resources and a bit of ingenuity.

Margo is a freshman in college when she starts a 6 week affair with her professor, Mark. She ends up getting pregnant and Mark wants nothing to do with the baby as he’s already married. Margo forges ahead, having the baby named Bodhi (yay! Also my sons name!) but finding herself totally unprepared to actually make a living with a newborn. Margo’s dad is an ex WWE wrestler and addict and her mom totally unhelpful so she decides to be a cam girl on OnlyFans. It’s a lot but so is the money.
I certainly learned a lot about OnlyFans! This was a weird one to rate for me in all honestly. I found the premise hard to relate to and a lot of the shenanigans were really childish. Some of the “deep thoughts” by Margo, including pontificating about the Virgin Mary, were a little out of place for me as well. That said I found the book enjoyable and it’s definitely one that you could talk endlessly about with a book club. Lots to discuss around parenting, how we view woman and mothers, etc…Also it’s being made into a show with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning apparently?! Kind of elevates the content knowing that. Anyway, if you’re into coming of age and can stand to hear all about online cam work give this one a go!