Breaking the rules vs Trading Up: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Breaking the rules Breaking the rules Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1843 ★★★★☆ 3.8 512 pages · ≈ 9 h 29 m · Challenging

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…

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Cover of Trading Up Trading Up Candace Bushnell · 2002 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 586 pages · ≈ 10 h 51 m · Moderate
“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.”

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

How to choose

Scores by source

Breaking the rulesTrading Up
Goodreads 3.8 (2971) 3.3 (20696)
Hardcover — 3.0 (14)
Apple Books 4.0 (86) —

Reception

Breaking the rulesTrading 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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