Chaos Theory by Kelly Anne Blout and Lynn Rush is book three in their Twin River High Series. Starring Victoria Knight and Corey Chaos. To save face after a public breakup, Victoria asks Corey's help in pretending to he her fake boyfriend. What follows is a fun and sweet story. It was also great see the characters from previous books. Happily recommend the book and the series.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing a free copy in exchanged for an honest review.

Fake dating tropes have always been one of my personal favorites, but I often have a problem finding storylines that aren't fully predictable and bland. In my opinion, Chaos Theory did NOT have this problem. I was connected to the story from beginning to end. Corey and Victoria were lovable characters, and watching their relationship develop was very heartwarming. Overall, it was both an easy and feel good read that I highly recommend!

Title: Chaos Theory
Author: Kelly Anne Blount & Lynn Rush
Pub. Date: May 24, 2021
Rating: 5

This will be a spoiler free review. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Fake dating will forever be one of my favorite tropes. I love it so much.
I’ve really enjoyed the books in the Twin River High series, but omfg this was easily my favorite. I loved Victoria and Corey so much. They were just so cute together.

Like with the first two books, I do wish this book was longer, but I also loved that it was on the shorter side. But I do think some of the more emotional parts were glossed over a bit in favor of wrapping everything up quickly. I don’t think that it’s necessarily a bad thing, and I would gladly read many more books in this world, in this series. I just wanted a little bit more.

This book was full of such cute moments, and lowkey, I kind of reminded me of You’d Be Mine and that book is one of my favorites. I will most definitely be recommending this book to everyone – hell, the whole series. I thoroughly enjoyed this third book, read it in one sitting and fell for the characters.
I loved that Corey just seamlessly fit in with Victoria’s friends. All those moments were so great and brought so much joy.

Honestly, if you’re looking for a feel good, quick YA contemporary read that will leave you feeling warm and giddy, then you probably are going to want to check this book out. I mean, fake dating! Kisses! A winter/ice themed festival! It’s just such a good book, and I’m so glad that I read it.

Okay, raise your hand if you love the fake relationship trope! Now, if you raised your hand, use it to purchase this book.

Chaos Theory is a sweet story about Victoria and Corey. Victoria, a Twin River High junior who has just been dumped and humiliated publicly and online, is desperate for a date to the Ice Festival. *Insert Corey - an influencer from LA, and also Victoria’s dad’s client, who honestly just needs a break from the spotlight and finds himself in BFN Wisconsin.* Victoria uses this to her advantage, and Corey is so on board for a chance to live life like a “normal” teen, even if it is just for a few weeks.

Naturally, they both develop feelings for each other even though this goes against the clause in their fake relationship contract, but it doesn’t happen THAT easily. In true Rush & Blount fashion, this story is full of twists and turns.

If you loved Gutter Girl and Project Personality, you must read Chaos Theory! I truly hope that there are more books to come in this series because I need the next one like California boy Corey needed all of the hot beverages.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC!

Chaos Theory by Kelly Ann Blount & Lynn Rush a sweet as sugar five-star read. This is number three in the Twin River series, and I have loved all of the stories they each follow a different young couple and the chaos that they face. I have loved feeling like a teenager again, reading about how the face life now, Corey Chaos was something special, and I understood why Victoria was hesitant, at first, I couldn’t understand as something was alluded to but not made very clear, but then when it was all explained it all made sense. I adored all of the cute ice related dates, this was as sweet as sugar, but it also had a great lesson as well. We could all learn from these teenagers and I for one cant wait to see who we will get to know better next.

Victoria is mortified when her boyfriend Todd breaks up with her at school. She then discovers not only was he two timing her, videos of the dumping have gone viral on social media. In order to restore her reputation and show Todd she’s moved on, she asks her dad’s client, social media sensation Corey Chaos, to be her fake boyfriend, but the feelings they have for each other are the real deal.

Victoria and Corey make an adorable couple and their Ice Festival contractual dates are super sweet. They both have secrets, which threaten their new relationship, and the supporting cast is great. I liked how Victoria writes poetry and Corey, who has gotten attention singing cover songs, seeks to perform his own creations.

The fake relationship trope, which is one of favorites, is well done. Todd and his new girlfriend seem a little over the top mean, but their behavior helps fuel the conflict. Resident mean girl Gretchen, of course, gets in on the fun. One of the things I love about a series like this is that the stories of the other characters you have come to adore from the previous books continue. I enjoyed seeing Hope and Landon, in particular, from PROJECT PERSONALITY.

Entangled Crush continues to provide sweet contemporary romances that both teens and adults can enjoy.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for providing an Advance Reader Copy.

Another fun book from Blount and Rush about the teens at Twin River high. This one tells the story of Victoria, a junior who has been dating Todd for two years. That is, up until he dumps her in the school cafeteria in front of everyone and the video of their breakup goes viral. Victoria's dad, luckily, is an agent for a hot, young social media influencer. And of course, you see where this is going. Corey Chaos comes to Wisconsin to lay low a bit before a new reality show starts. He and Victoria hatch a plan to show Todd what he's missing. And of course, they end up falling for each other. It's predictable, but fun. The characters are likable and we catch glimpses of other characters from the previous two books. Now I'm ready for books about Tony, Gretchen, and @$%hole Todd. A quick, but fun read which will make you smile.

YA: ✓
Romance: ✓
Series: ✓
Summer Read: ✓
Fake dating trope: ✓
A book to get you out of a reading slump: ✓
Fast-paced: ✓


After a very public and embarrassing break up Victoria decides to fake date YouTube icon Corey chaos. But we all know what happens when two people pretend to date ;)

This is the third book in the TwinRiver High series, and the writers have yet to make a mistake! The authors have created so many beautiful characters that the reader is so curious and eager to know more about them. 
This is a very pleasant read, but still discussing important topics such as cancer, car accidents, loss of a parent, and alcohol intoxication.  I appreciated how the issues are tackled straight on and sincerely addressed by both parties. Definitely my favorite so far in the series!

I liked the story overall but I didn't really enjoy that the names were so similar because it made me pause a lot. I also felt like the personalities were kind of blah.

What a cute couple to leave off with for this series (at least currently). I've had so much fun binge reading this series over the past week or so and have really grown a fondness for so many of the characters. The books really have that hometown feel that evokes nostalgia, kind of like "One Tree Hill."

This book had an interesting new spin compared to the previous two with it centered around a romance of someone not already attending Twin River High. Corey made a really nice addition to the Twin River cast. I liked that despite his fame, he stays true to himself and what he really wants in life. He's humble and genuine and I enjoyed reading from his point-of-view a lot during the book. I've liked the pattern the books have followed of picking a new side character to focus on for the next book. It was cool to be able to see Victoria in book one and then find out her backstory in this installment. Her story was far deeper than I had expected and was a nice change of pace to read about someone who wasn't already a Twin River native.

This book probably has the quickest pacing of all three and I massively enjoyed the featuring of the town's traditions of the Ice Festival and Ice Ball. I had a lot of fun being able to read about the different fair activities and food while being nice and warm inside my house instead of in the 12 degree weather the book featured at times. And although this book has some really heavy topics, I found it to be the most lighthearted and full of a lot of feel-good feels. I especially enjoyed the ending which added the perfect final touch of wholesomeness to this book.

Overall, I've really enjoyed this series and would love to see more books published for it. There's so many characters I'd love to see featured next. I've loved the variety that the books have given and how each installment has its own feel. The romance in this book, despite being fake at the start, was really cute and I enjoyed seeing Corey added to the Twin River class. A huge thank you to the authors and Entangled Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read the eARCs of these books!

I loathe giving books low ratings, but this one was...not for me. It's dual, first person POV (Entangled Teen's specialty), but the two main characters don't seem to be very different from each other. There's not much personality to either of them either. There's no chemistry, unless you count a couple of random lame attempts at flirting to be the things relationships are made of. I strongly disliked Corey Chaos's name. I wish Todd and Tony's names would've been further from each other because I had a hard time keeping them straight for a while. The beginning was kind of boring (I'm talking like the first six chapters), and while I understand why Victoria's story had to start in that spot, Corey's didn't. So maybe that should've just been a prologue or something? I would've liked it better had the story started more "in the action" and weaved in the backstory. That doesn't really seem to be Entangled Teen's style of writing however, and that's fine, I just didn't think it worked for this story. Unfortunately for me, the book never really picked up from there (probably because of the lack of chemistry I mentioned.) And in 2021, I do not have time or desire to read books that just aren't doing it for me. I skipped ahead a few chapters. The great news is, if you skip through the story, you actually miss the story. I've read other boring books where I skipped ahead five chapters and hadn't missed a thing. You'll miss the story if you do this. And from what I can tell, it would be a good, cute story with lots of neat and crazy plot points. But the book just lost me around 40%, and I couldn't bring myself to go back to read the rest. I would still pick up books by either author! In fact, that's what first drew me to this book: I've read individual books by each author and loved them. And I won't hesitate to pick up either again. But I'm probably going to skip the other Twin River High books for now. The only other thing that bothered me was the grammar and because I was reading a galley, I can forgive that mostly. But the non-consistent use of "blonde" and "blond" drove me bonkers. Blond = male. Blonde = female. I don't even care if you only ever use the male spelling with no e, just be consistent. This, along with the missing commas, probably won't bother the general reader nearly as much as they bothered me.
I loved that this had a content warning at the beginning: cancer, death from cancer, death of a parent, drunk driving, car accidents, rehab. Entangled takes super good care of things like this for their readers, and I always appreciate it.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review!

This third book in the series might have become my favorite so far! I’d wondered about Victoria after book 1, and now we get her story! I was not expecting her to have such an extensive secret past. And I was not prepared for Corey Chaos, the new guy in Twin Rivers. He has heartthrob down to a science. I loved the natural way the fake dating situation came about. The fact that they both develop feelings little by little was expected, and yet unfolded once again in a manner I wasn’t expecting at all. Corey was definitely swoon worthy and I’d like to see more of him in future books! Both my teenage daughters and I are excited about reading more in this series.

Each new book in the series leaves me wondering about other characters in this universe. I still have questions about Kyle and Gretchen. Tony is always on my radar, and now Mia has joined those ranks! It’s fun that we can still catch up with Jace, McKenna, Hope and Landon and see where life has taken them. Another high recommendation from me if you like a fun fake dating situation with a social media celebrity! I received an advanced copy for the purpose of review. All opinions are my own.

First of all, thanks to NetGalley and Entangled: Crush for approving my request and sending me an eARC in exchange for a honest review.
You have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.


TRIGGER WARNING: cancer, death caused by cancer, death of a parent, driving under the influence of alcohol, car accident.


Victoria Knight has just suffered one of the greatest humiliations of her life: being suddenly dumped, in front of everyone during lunchtime in the school cafeteria. Her boyfriend of two years Todd Miller, along with his friends, also took care to film the scene and make it go viral on Instagram.
And, as if humiliation in general were not enough, this also happens a few days before the start of the Twin River Ice Festival. And we want to talk about the school dance, where she and Todd were named as the princess and prince of the Ice Court?

The unexpected arrival of one of her father's clients gives Victoria an idea about the way to make Todd pay for what he did to her. Victoria has known Corey Chaos for a couple of years, though they've never interacted that much - and Victoria left her Los Angeles life and its scandals behind her. But why not take advantage of the presence of one guy as Corey - rising musician and idol of crowds - by asking him to be her fake boyfriend and show everyone there's someone better than Todd around for her?

Corey is stressed beyond all limits - he has become famous on YouTube with covers of famous rap and hip hop songs, but people only see that about him. He continues to have to participate in events and interviews and he no longer knows what normality is: he has no time for the study that his tutor expects, he has no time for himself and above all he no longer has the time and inspiration to write his original songs - that's why his agent's proposal is something to be taken on the fly. He's also seen Victoria's video on the internet and he feels very sorry for her, so he doesn't feel like saying no to her - but trusting people in a world like his where everyone has an ulterior motive is difficult and even a contract not signed can be a public relations nightmare.

And then you know what they say about fake relationships...


This third volume is also extremely fluid as the previous ones but, perhaps because I have read almost the same dynamics for three novels in a row, I feel as if this one has deepened the characters a little less.
Also there's the issue of the instalove which I don't particularly love, but with this series I felt generous and was willing to overlook it - I realized that I feel very annoyed with the instalove when it comes to stories with adults. With young adults I tend to be more accommodating - unless of course they say "I love you" after two pages of meeting. Here the times are a bit more dilated than in "Project Personality" where the story was concentrated in two weeks - here it's not much more than that, it all happens in about a month, so it's quite the same, but they are seventeen and for me, with hormones going crazy at that age, I can stand big statements about feelings.

Speaking of "Project Personality", of all the characters we've met before the ones who have the most lines are Landon and Hope - and we find out whether Hope got accepted to MIT or not. Victoria and Todd appeared in that book and from those moments there, I never imagined that Todd would turn out to be a complete imbecile - how much I hated him you can't understand. Oh no, because ditching Victoria in the cafeteria is just the tip of the iceberg - what a mean, mean boy.

Victoria is a sweet and quiet girl who cares about others - in fact she is very dedicated to volunteering and she just didn't deserve a cruelty like the one Todd committed. Although she's from Los Angeles and has only been in Twin River for two years, she's in love with this little corner of Wisconsin and the quiet life she leads.
Tranquility and normality are exactly what Corey is looking for, even if he doesn't abandon the dream of being able to live on his music only and not on covers. Dating Victoria, spending time with her friends, gives him a slice of the life he had before fame and it brings back to him enthusiasm and desire to do things.

They are very cute together, both reserved and reluctant to open up to others about their passions and emotions - Corey's original music is still in a drawer and Victoria has never told anyone that she loves writing poetry.

Now that we are in January - metaphorically thanks to this book - the Wisconsin described in these pages is even more magical and beautiful than usual. Twin River is especially so, with its Ice Festival and all the opportunities these guys have to spend time together and have fun. I liked Mia, so protective of Victoria and I loved the friendship that develops between Corey and Tony - Tony and Jace are among the few who treat Corey like a perfectly normal guy. Landon too, but he hardly appears in these circumstances at all.

In conclusion, this is a very nice series that you can really read in a flash - sweet, light while still addressing important issues and with a hint of instalove that you can even gloss over. The drama as always is not lacking, but I appreciated how the situations are faced head on and honestly discussed between both parts- at least the first drama of the two expected - and are not dragged uselessly for pages and pages only to lengthen the story.
Maybe it's not a full four stars, maybe it's a 3.75 stars, but only because I've read three books with the same outline all in a row. It doesn't mean that, if more books will be added to the series - and perhaps one with Tony as a main character, I will be really happy to continue.

What's a girl to do after a bad (& very public) breakup? For Victoria the answer is complicated: Stage a fake dating scheme with the rising star your dad manages, who happens to be in town for a few weeks.

This was fun! I loved the small twists to the typical fake dating plot. I liked how Victoria and Corey's relationship progressed. Chaos Theory is one of those stories that just makes you happy. It's SNOW MUCH FUN. (and the setting is an Ice Festival and Ice Ball - as someone who has witnessed snow ~3 times this was fun to read about, but I know I wouldn't last a day...)

This is the third installment of the Twin River High series and Kelly Anne Blount & Lynn Rush haven't had a single miss in this series! (I know we are getting blessed with three installments released in a month- but Blount & Rush have crafted so many wonderful side characters that I wouldn't mind reading more about)

All in all, this was a cute fake dating story (with a dash of revenge) that I really enjoyed!

Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled: Crush for an eARC. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.