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A review by sicksadlit
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I did not expect to finish this book considering OnlyFans as a legitimate business idea but here we are.
Margo's Got Money Troubles tells the story of 19 year old Margo Millet who falls unexpectedly pregnant by her college English professor and decides to keep the baby. When little Bodhi comes along, Margo's life explodes. She loses her waitressing job, is forced to quit uni thanks to her baby daddy's threatening mother, and she loses two of her three flatmates all in one week. With her father barely on the scene and her mother fairly useless, she realises she needs to find a way to make money that provides flexible working conditions to be available to her baby - and FAST.
Enter: OnlyFans.
Margo's Got Money Troubles is a whole lot of important cultural discourse, piled into one super fun and easy-to-consume package. You'd hardly realise the book is talking about misogyny, sexism and the hypocrisy surrounding a woman's right to choose what she wants for her body.
I loved the confronting plotlines surrounding the reality of engaging in sex work as a mother, even when it's OnlyFans which doesn't involve any actual face-to-face interaction. The blistering reality of the ways in which society looks down its nose at mothers young and old no matter what she does, under the guise of "caring about what's right for the baby".
The characters were complex and nuanced and utterly believable. I rooted for Margo and Jinx and loved the way Margo viewed those she loved and their flaws.
What I reaaaalllyyy didn't like was the switch between Narrative Points of View. I hated it.
I know it was meant to be a literary device, but there were so many little passages that seemed to foreshadow some huge revelation in this way that just never came. It made me wonder if the author used it just to sound/come off super smart?? Idk. Maybe I'm too dumb to get it but I did not feel like it added a single thing to the story. In fact, every time it switched between first and third person it yanked me out of it.
For that reason I give it four stars. The POV thing truly detracted from the story and if not for that it may have been a five-starrer.
Margo's Got Money Troubles tells the story of 19 year old Margo Millet who falls unexpectedly pregnant by her college English professor and decides to keep the baby. When little Bodhi comes along, Margo's life explodes. She loses her waitressing job, is forced to quit uni thanks to her baby daddy's threatening mother, and she loses two of her three flatmates all in one week. With her father barely on the scene and her mother fairly useless, she realises she needs to find a way to make money that provides flexible working conditions to be available to her baby - and FAST.
Enter: OnlyFans.
Margo's Got Money Troubles is a whole lot of important cultural discourse, piled into one super fun and easy-to-consume package. You'd hardly realise the book is talking about misogyny, sexism and the hypocrisy surrounding a woman's right to choose what she wants for her body.
I loved the confronting plotlines surrounding the reality of engaging in sex work as a mother, even when it's OnlyFans which doesn't involve any actual face-to-face interaction. The blistering reality of the ways in which society looks down its nose at mothers young and old no matter what she does, under the guise of "caring about what's right for the baby".
The characters were complex and nuanced and utterly believable. I rooted for Margo and Jinx and loved the way Margo viewed those she loved and their flaws.
What I reaaaalllyyy didn't like was the switch between Narrative Points of View. I hated it.
I know it was meant to be a literary device, but there were so many little passages that seemed to foreshadow some huge revelation in this way that just never came. It made me wonder if the author used it just to sound/come off super smart?? Idk. Maybe I'm too dumb to get it but I did not feel like it added a single thing to the story. In fact, every time it switched between first and third person it yanked me out of it.
For that reason I give it four stars. The POV thing truly detracted from the story and if not for that it may have been a five-starrer.