I always enjoy reading Barbara Taylor Bradford novels. In my opinion, some are better than others. "breaking the rules" was one of her better novels. The only reason I gave it four stars versus 5, was because it did drag at times. The main character, "M", is mysterious with several secrets. She ventures to New York in hopes of becoming a fashion model. There she meets a famous actor by the name of Larry Vaughn. Their attraction is instantaneous. Her adventures take her to the capitals of Paris and London. However, some of her secrets are impossible to hide. Will she find true happiness and fame, once her secrets are revealed? ( )

believe it or not, only 20% of it was interesting. nearly stopped reading in the end flipping it more just to finish ( )

interestingly I didn't really enjoy the first part of the book. Once it involved the Harte Family it became more interesting and enjoyable. ( )

I didn't love this book. It was okay but... M (protagonist) is too perfect, too confident, too smart - invincible. The fact that she was disturbed at all by the rape is hard to believe because everywhere else in the story, she's a superwoman. She was difficult to love because she had no vulnerability.The story jumps around, swapping points of view often between at least ten characters. The author goes off on tangents, sharing details about a very secondary character when we've had no other information on them up to that point and nothing after. The scene itself becomes unimportant to the reader because we have not grown to love that character, we don't care about them. In the third section, I felt the story really dragged. It was a whole lot of build-up to a disappointing climax. ( )

Definitely by far the worst book I've read by her... I've only read a few, but I liked the others or I wouldn't have bothered with this book. ( )