Margo Millet’s got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter’s waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she’s always known she’d have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor – who is very keen not to be involved – she realizes she will need cash fast.
At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there. Help arrives in the form of her live-action role-playing flatmate Suzie, and her father, Jinx – a recovering addict and veteran of the wrestling world, who has experience of making an audience fall in love.
Before she knows it, Margo is an online phenomenon. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Book Info: Print length: 308 pages. Publisher: Sceptre. Publication Date: 11 June 2024
My Review:
I have seen this book being highly recommend all over social media and obviously my FOMO kicked in so I had to read it to see if it was as good or as funny as everyone kept saying it was.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is the story of Margo, a university student who finds herself pregnant at the age of 19 after a brief and rather unsatisfactory affair with her married English Professor. Determined to raise the baby alone despite everyone telling her not to ruin her life, she has no alternative but to drop out of school and try to earn money to survive. With little work experience, no childcare and not many options open to her, she creates an OnlyFans account which results in some toxic and morale dilemmas and several amusing incidents.
The book took a little longer for me to get into as the narration switches into third person and back to first person throughout and although it is Margo narrating both versions it did slow down my reading flow.
With a vast cast of fabulous characters, from Jinx, a retired professional wrestler, recovering drug addict and absent father to her very dysfunctional relationship with her mother and new stepfather, her wonderful housemate and new friends from Only Fans, Margo’s Got Money Troubles has enough backstories and personalities to keep the reader invested.
Did I laugh out loud? No, but there were lots of humorous situations and amusing scenarios to raise the odd smile. Overall I did enjoy the book and found myself rooting for Margo throughout.
Apple TV has commissioned this book into a mini series staring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning which should air in 2025 and I really do look forward to watching it.
