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Chaos Theory by Nic Stone

9 reviews

beckyyreadss's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed Nic Stone’s previous work. This year, I have been trying to read more books from authors I previously enjoyed. I love the Dear Martin series and saw this book in Waterstones and decided to read more of her work. 

This book is based on two points of view. The first is Shelbi and since she has enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won’t be there very long, she hasn’t bothered making friends. What her classmates don’t know about her can’t be used to hurt her, you know like it did at her last school. The second point of view is Andy and he is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again, which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn’t resist reaching out. And there’s no doubt their connection has them both seeing stars, but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull their universes apart.  

Everyone should read this book, I don’t care if you are a child, a young adult, a new adult or in your fifties or sixties. Read this book. It is such a good book based on bipolar disorder, mental health, grief of a sibling and alcoholism within young adults. I love how this book is a young adult book, but Nic doesn’t talk down about the importance of mental health. I loved Shelby and Andy, I wanted to hug them both throughout the book and wanted to let them know they are both important and loved. I am also really glad this book didn’t end with suicide, like I thought it was going to.  

It took me a while to get into this book mainly because I wanted to smack the shit out of the parents. Also, I would have loved for them to have a happy ending. A fully-blown reunion rather than the text message epilogue. 

Also, thank God, for having a character after my name that isn’t a complete tool like Becky Bloomwood, because I never thought I would read about a character named Becky that I liked and didn’t want to punch.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, and Abortion

Minor: Miscarriage, Car accident, and Pregnancy

lizzie_b99's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Medical content

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity and Vomit

Minor: Bullying, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Pregnancy

jupitersuns's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Amazing book! It talks about mental health that a lot of people should take time to understand. I could have read it in one sitting if I had had the chance but I work a lot so I couldn't :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Self harm, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Car accident, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

lyssie03's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Child death and Abortion

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

khaylam's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

lauding_42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide, and Car accident

mayy_y's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love books that are entertaining and equally educational. 

This book really touches on the topic of mental illness (even though the author hates describing it that way) and how it is for the people that experience it, and how it might affect their relationships with others. 

Right from the author’s note at thr beginning, I knew I would like this book. 
I’m also a fan of text messages in books, and this had a lot of it🤌🏼

So yes, you should def read this book. Be careful of the content warnings tho. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage

jessicaludden's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

“People aren’t put on this earth to meet your expectations.”

Chaos Theory follows the growing friendship and romance between Shelby and Andy who are both dealing with their own unique mental illnesses.

This book has such an important message surrounding the stigmatization of mental health issues. I think the mental health representation was written really well. Each character was portrayed very realistically and it was interesting to see how the way their brains function impacted who they were and the people they cared about it. This story was a good way to learn about how different people navigate through life differently. The author does a great job of depicting the reality of mental illness while also not making it a big scary thing that’s sets people apart. I loved seeing Shelbi and Andy’s relationship grow slowly over time and how they were able to find themselves together. Overall I liked this and I liked its message, but there was a lot going on and the dialogue was a little cheesy.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Random House for an ARC of this book!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol