Book Review: Margo's Got Money Troubles
Sometimes, the prose felt inspired, marvelous and deft, and I luxuriated in it. Rufi made me laugh, made me worry, peppered little insights about humanity and art in here. And then the prose would shift into a didactic passage, like an informational segment on PBS, and I would recoil like a spider jumped on my face.
I liked the story overall. I wish she could have figured out how to write about some of these topics more subtly.
I don't think I'm the target audience for "Baby's First Class War", or "Baby's First Encounter with Sex Work". I am already well aware of how evil American society is, so I spent most of the book feeling existing anger and disgust rise up in me at the way our young heroine Margo is treated by everyone, and the moments of "wow, isn't this fucked up?" rang hollow because I'd seen them coming and was already yelling at the screen book.
I also don't need pages and pages of "Here's how tiktok works" or "Here's how OnlyFans works", nor do I need the power fantasy of figuring out the perfect way to go viral on some platform.
All in all, I feel medium? I loved Margo and Jinx and Bodhi, and could have spent many more hours in their company. The rest was only so-so.
(Crossposted from Hardcover.)