Breaking the rules vs Trading Up: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Models, Celebrities, Young women, New york, Fiction
Breaking the rules
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Thirty years ago the world was introduced to Emma Harte. Now meet M, a new woman of substance guaranteed to win our hearts all over again. A new era has begun.When those you love are threatened, there's nothing you…
Trading Up
“IT WAS THE beginning of the summer in the year 2000, and in New York City, where the streets seemed to sparkle with the gold dust filtered down from a billion trades in a boomtown economy, it was business as usual.”
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A lingerie model whose fame and success have gone to her head, Janey Wilcox becomes involved in a world of too much money and too little ethics where she is forced to reexamine her values to determine how far she is…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Breaking the rules highest: Breaking the rules 3.8 · Trading Up 3.3.
- Trading Up has the widest readership — 20696 ratings behind its score.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Breaking the rules | Trading Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (2971) | 3.3 (20696) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.0 (14) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (86) | — |
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Reception
| Breaking the rules | Trading Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2971 | 20696 |
| Editions | 22 | 26 |
| Citations | — | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1700 | 8197 |
| Reading it now | 294 | 286 |
| Written reviews | 203 | 790 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 169 |
| Pages | 512 | 586 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Breaking the rules or Trading Up?
Breaking the rules has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Breaking the rules 3.8/5, Trading Up 3.3/5).
Which is shorter to read: Breaking the rules or Trading Up?
Breaking the rules is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Breaking the rules (512 pages, ≈ 9 h 29 m); Trading Up (586 pages, ≈ 10 h 51 m).
Which is harder to read: Breaking the rules or Trading Up?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Breaking the rules: Challenging; Trading Up: Moderate.