Margo's Got Money Troubles
Ratings20
Average rating4.4
God I loved this. Renata recommended it to me because I keep reading books about being sad in space or sad about space - looking at you, Challenger by Adam Higginbotham. Instead, she suggested, why not read something funny and heartwarming about dicks and Pokémon and Dragon Ball and dads and daughter and love and love and love.
Much better, I think.
I just LOVED this book! I had picked it up on the recommendation of a friend without reading too much more about it and I think if I had read what the plot was I might have been like “uh oh this sounds depressing and I'm NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THAT” but I'm so glad I didn't do that, because this was exactly what I was in the mood for. SO funny and fresh and unexpectedly heartwarming but also a real page turner. I couldn't put it down and read it all in two days. AND went to look up what else this author has written and acquire those books next.
I had to binge through this as I started dangerously close to the library's return date, but this was perfect entertainment, and such a blast to listen to. With Ellen Fanning voicing the audiobook, and the absolutely marketable content of a young woman discovering herself and her entrepreneurial spirit, amidst the worlds of young motherhood, onlyFans and wrestling, I can only imagine that this will be translated into the big or small screen (yup, just looked it up, of course it is!)
Such fun and perfect execution.
4.25 | margo millet you are a mess but trying your best and i love that. was worried i wouldn't be into it because i've ended up not being a huge fan of stories with 20somethings doing not good things, but margo was just sooo likeable, you couldn't help but root for her. looking forward to the tv series!
INFINITY STARS. Worth the hype! This is what I call a “slump breaker”. In a slump? Read this book! Even better on audio. I cannot wait for this show, it will become my entire personality. There are so many more layers to this book than “teen mom starts only fans” and the readers basing their one-star reviews on that alone need a re-read or a reading comprehension course. I said what I said.
The basic idea is very interesting, but it could have been developed in countless other better ways. I found the characters unrelatable because they keep flip flopping between extremes over and over again, which I guess is a way to explore the concept of “nobody is ever completely good or evil”, but I found no nuance to it. There are a lot of story lines, and a lot of them are not fleshed out enough for me to care about. I found Margo's TikTok scripts super cringe, not for the content itself but for the writing style, and I found it hard to believe that they would have ever granted virality or even fame. There's an explanation given as to why the point of view keeps changing between first and third person, but I found it unnecessary and annoying none the less. There are also paragraphs that break the fourth wall and speak directly to the reader, but again I found them unnecessary and randomly placed.
I read that this book is going to be picked as a limited series and it might work way better as such, but I would definitely not recommend this book in the meanwhile.
First half of the book and second half of the book felt like two very different stories - loved first half (4 stars), second half was only okay (2.5 stars).