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!

For a novel that is in large part about making money off of one's sex appeal, this is not a remotely sexy book. Instead it's funny, smart, and poignant. Nobody makes the right decisions all the time here, but everyone is doing their best, and everything works out in the end... I think.

Five stars because this novel made me think, made me feel, and made me root for Margo. It's smarter than it has to be but not smarter than it should be. Recommended!

4.5 ⭐ This is one of the most unique books I've read this year. Consider me a new follower of Rufi Thorpe; I've been converted.

There are so many interesting choices made here regarding character and perspective. I found the meta moments layered within to be super satisfying (specifically in regards to how this story is being told). The narrative voice is so fresh and immediately reeled me in.

We follow Margo, a young woman who finds herself entangled in an affair with her (married) college professor. Once pregnant with his child, Mark makes a quick, clean exit from her life, leaving her to raise young Bodhi by herself. Naturally, at twenty-years old, this is an overwhelming situation to find herself in. Margo's smart, but needs as much help as anyone else might in a similar circumstance.

She discovers the world of OnlyFans, which seemingly becomes a solution to her financial issues. However, given the misconceptions and stigma surrounding sex work, Margo faces some serious backlash from the people in her life.

This book is filled with thoughtful commentary surrounding a number of different topics. It's also very funny. I especially enjoyed reading about Margo's dynamic with her father, an ex-professional wrestler. You wouldn't expect so many worlds (and topics) to collide so seamlessly in one relatively short book. And yet, it worked.

"Real people were both good and bad, all mixed up together, only the screen made everyone into basic silhouettes. The resulting image could appear either way depending on which way you turned it, which details you showed.

But that happened in real life too. So much so that sometimes it made her dizzy. Even when it came to herself, Margo could see it both ways: hometown girl makes good, defies capitalist patriarchy, or teen whore sells nudes while nursing, too lazy to work."

Side note: I also loved Elle Fanning's narration of the audiobook and was excited to see she'll be starring in the adaptation, as well.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. This might be my favorite book of the year. It was funny and witty and everything I want in a story.

Margo is the perfect description of being young and stupid in your early twenties, but she took it a bit far by sleeping with her college professor and getting pregnant. Also the decision of keeping the baby without planning for the financial and childcare aspects since the father's baby wants nothing to do with it.

I rooted so much for Margo because she's a good person really trying to do things right. You can really see how much she grows as a character, how she learns to support herself and her baby using her creativity, exploiting the male gaze to her advantage. I loved how she slowly built a support system who show up for her and cheer her on on all her endeavours. It was also very cute reading about how Margo and her baby fall in love with each other. There's also a romantic subplot that was lowkey very cute. I liked the ending but would love to see it more detailed.

Bottom line: I loved this book! It was light and deep at the same time.

This was a little too odd for me. Though I knew it was about Only Fans going into the story, I guess I didn’t really think about what that entailed. The writing was good, but I just didn’t like the premise, especially when Margo teams up with the other girls.

Margo's Got Money Trouble was hilarious, poignant, and made me a little teary at times. Thorpe's writing is razor sharp and manages to touch on many issues in today's society in an engaging way. Thorpe does not gloss over the struggles of being a teenage mom. Margo struggles a lot, but eventually finds her footing. She is smart and devoted to her son Bhodi. It was a joy to read about her developing a relationship with her father Jinx. Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me the opportunity to read an ARC. It was truly a delight!

I was totally surprised by how much I enjoyed this quirky story about Margo. You can’t help but root for her and want her to make the best choices so she can as she fights for herself and her baby and goes on a journey of self-discovery.

Margo's Got Money Troubles is the latest by Rufi Thorpe. I have read this author's previous books and between the reviews and my previous experiences with the author I was really looking forward to this one -- sadly for me it's just ok. I didn't see the humor others cite and I just found myself feeling bad for Margo and I found myself judging the people in her life for their lack of humanity.

The author does a nice job of developing the characters especially Margo and her Dad and I will look forward to the author's next book.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of Margo's Got Money Troubles in exchange for an honest opinion. This book is available now.