Margo's Got Money Troubles

Margo's Got Money Troubles

2024 • 317 pages

Ratings20

Average rating4.4

15

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.

October 7, 2024