**My Thoughts on Hyped-Up Books**

One book that I decided to read and share my thoughts on is "Ice Planet Barbarians" by Ruby Dixon. This book series has been hyped up by many booktubers, and I must say, it was a pleasant surprise. The series is literally all about aliens and humans and steamy times, and that's exactly what it is. With other books in the series being way too long, this one was a great compromise at 218 pages.

I have to admit, I didn't expect to enjoy "Ice Planet Barbarians" as much as I did. The beginning of the book is not that good, with Georgia being captured by aliens and taken to an ice planet filled with young females. However, things quickly turn around when she meets a character named Vechin, an alien who claims her as his mate. If you're looking for a series about mates, this might be the one for you.

One thing that I appreciated about "Ice Planet Barbarians" was its lack of plot. There's no deep exploration of the planet or the aliens' motivations. The book is straightforward and to the point, with a focus on steamy romance between Georgia and Vechin. If you're looking for a light, easy read with plenty of action and romance, this might be the perfect series for you.

In contrast, "Icebreaker" by Hannah Grace was a different story altogether. This book is also hyped up on Tick Tock, but I have to say that it was way too long at 435 pages. While I enjoyed the book overall, I couldn't help but feel that multiple chapters could have been taken out without affecting the plot in any significant way. The book follows Anastasia, a figure skater who is trying to make it big on the Olympic scene, and Nate, the captain of her college ice hockey team.

As they navigate their complicated relationship, Anastasia struggles with commitment issues and focuses mainly on her goals. Meanwhile, Nate tries to win her over and show her that he cares. The book tackles some serious mental health themes, which I appreciated. However, I couldn't help but feel that the plot was a bit predictable, and that the book could have benefited from some editing to make it more concise.

**The Verdict**

In the end, I'd say that "Ice Planet Barbarians" is worth checking out if you're looking for a light, easy read with plenty of romance. While it may not be the most complex or engaging story, it's definitely fun and entertaining. On the other hand, "Icebreaker" was just okay for me. While it tackled some serious themes and had its moments, I felt that it could have been tightened up to make it more effective. Whether or not a book is worth the hype is always subjective, but I hope this review has given you a better idea of my thoughts on these books.

**Book Recommendation**

If you're looking for a series about mates, "Ice Planet Barbarians" might be the one for you. While it's not the most complex or engaging story, it's definitely fun and entertaining. If you're looking for something with more depth and complexity, you might want to look elsewhere.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso our book talk Tick Tock books are they worth the hype probably not hello everyone my name is Heather and welcome to the channel bookables today I'm here to talk about books that are really hyped on Tick Tock and whether or not they are worth that hype so we all know Tick Tock is taking the World by storm whether you agree with it or not is up to you and with that book talk has become very very popular with a lot of books that I really have not heard a lot about being featured a ton like I just see them over and over and over again so I thought hey why not do a video and read a lot of these books that are being really hyped up and see if they really are worth the hype or not we're gonna talk about seven books today that whether or not I think they're worth the hype now of course as always this is objective because you guessed it everyone has different opinions what I may like you might not like what you like I might not like so as always with all of my review videos and all my videos always is take this with a grain of salt at the end of the day read the book for yourself and see if you like it let's get into it because I have seven books the first two books I'm gonna talk about I have actually read previously a while ago so my memory in them is a little bit fuzzy so I would start off with them first up is from blood and Ash by Jennifer L armentrout now she is a very popular author she got into the book scene when I kind of first certain booktube she wrote the obsidian Trilogy I believe which I did not read but I heard a lot about from blood and Ash because everyone was saying it was the next big vampire romance and who am I if not a girl that is obsessed with vampires you got me you're standing at the mouth of hell and it's about to open I read this was so pumped up for it and no no I'm here to tell you if you love vampires you want a vampire romance this ain't this is not for you it's just not that good so this book of father named Poppy who is in this Fantastical world where she's like a maiden where nobody can look at her but of course she falls in love with her bodyguard named Hawk who she discovers is not quite who he says he is this book comes out at a whopping 622 Pages which is not by the stretch of imagination that crazy for like a fantasy book but mostly a romance fantasy books a little bit stretching it and honestly nothing happened in this book like nothing happened the fact that this author made this a Trilogy I I don't get I do not get so I I didn't enjoy this one I can't recommend it honestly because I just didn't like it I really wanted to like it as a vampire lover I am always trust me always looking for a great vampire romance because Angel Spike need I say more but this one just wasn't it so is worth the hype no I do not think so not in my opinion next up is one that I quite really can't fully explain and that is the Spanish love deception and that is the Spanish love deception by Elena Arma so this one took booktube book talk by storm a couple years ago and everyone talked about it and then I decided to read it and I couldn't finish it so this one's technically a dnf but I'm still gonna tell you my thoughts and feelings on it so this book we have a character named Catalina and Aaron and basically the beginning of the book Catalina has to go to this um wedding I believe with her family in Spain and she doesn't have anybody to go with and so her kind of Nemesis guy that she works with Aaron decides to volunteer to be her date and you think that's oh so great yes and I was even for it but by a page 150 I kid you not I'm pretty sure it was either 150. they still were not in Spain they were still like in the office talking like I was like what why this book just really drags on this book had 487 Pages which coincidentally is not the longest romance book I'm talking about today and that's a lengthy romance novel in my opinion to me a good romance novel Falls anywhere between 300 to 400 Pages that's my sweet spot for me if it's any less I feel like it's a little bit too short if it's any more than 400 I feel like it's a little bit too long this one was way too long and was took way too much time I did not like either of the main characters honestly so add dnf it so can I say this is worth a hype or not I guess honestly I can't really say because I did not finish the whole book but I'm glad I didn't I just didn't I wasn't vibing with it and I'm kind of glad I didn't next up we have an indie author and that is the Dreamland billionaires by Lauren Asher they recently got cover redesigns and I gotta say I love them I think they're great with the schematics and blueprints I'm here for it so this is the Dreamland billionaire series which of the books follows a different brother so at the beginning of the book you learn that their grandfather has died he was the CEO of Dreamland AKA four each of them can collect their inheritance he has left them each instructions to do different things the first book kicks off with the character named Rowan and he's he has to like become the CFO for like a few months and try to find dreamlands like weakness and make it better and so he does that so he gets in the nitty-gritty of like um almost like imagineers with Disney World and stuff with the rides and things like that and when there he meets a character named Zara who is kind of in the thick of it she works with a beauty salon and then she gets bumped up to be like kind of imagineer and stuff like that and they butt heads a lot like it is a very hate hate relationship at first but of course things happen steaminess happens and it kind of goes from there again this is a very lengthy one as well oh actually it's probably that's not that bad 440 which is weird enough as I'd say it it's one of the shortest romance books I've read in this list this one like is it worth the hype I'm gonna say kind of yes I liked it I like the whole aspect were each books about a different brother and I've only read the first book in the series but I plan to read other ones I will say I didn't love this one as much as a lot of other people do but I am hopeful to like other ones like I feel like I'm gonna connect with the other brothers and their books instead I think there's terms and conditions and I forget what the other one is but I have to say I get the whole appeal of it the whole Dreamland it's like Disney and reading fairy tales and you know you have kind of a very grumpy CFO with a very happy like sunshiny character I get it stuff we have another Indie author that has since been traditionally published I believe so and that is the Twisted series by Anna Huang the first book is Twisted love and this one follows a character named Alex and Ava and Alex is a very very very he lets you know tough guy like you think a tough guy Alex is like I'm here this is a tough guy I'm Alex I'm way up here and at the beginning of the book his best friend's like hey I'm moving away can you keep an eye on my younger sister Ava and of course you you know what happens Ava again is like literal sunshine and he's the grumpiest of all Grumpy's but also he is very smart he is the badass of all badass he made his first million when he was 11. I I didn't enjoy this I just I don't it was not for me like I just felt like they were she was really pushing hard on Alex being like the best guy ever like the toughest guy ever like the smartest guy ever he made us who was being the CFO of his company at really really young and I'm like I don't know what 11 year olds doing that because I was and I was looking like a total geek so I don't know but again the spicy scenes were a little bit too intense for me in this one this one was very much like kind of oh what's the word like a lot of like Angry type of stuff which I just that's not me but I don't know for this one was the height worth it or not for me no a lot of people say it gets better as the series goes on and I did peek into the other books in the series and I read like kind of skimmed them a little bit so I can't say I fully read them by any means which I have not um but I just I didn't Jive well with any of the other ones as well so for this one for me I didn't love it I don't know if it's worth the hype or not if you want to really steamy very very intense I've esteeming maybe this would be for you but sadly it just wasn't for me so we have probably the most hype one this is the one I've heard about the most other than the Spanish love deception and that is things we never got over it by Lucy's score this is the first book in her knock them out series and this one was for the longest book because holy crap so this book is a whopping 572 Pages let me repeat that this romance book is 572 pages that's insane so this book we have a character named Naomi and she goes to this very very small town in Virginia I'm from Virginia as well um no it's called knock them out pretty sure there's no knock them out really and it's in Northern Virginia I'm in Southern Virginia and she is meeting her twin sister Tina there because Tina calls her and she's like I need help like come help me and so Naomi kind of leaves her wedding like she decides not to get married to this guy and she goes to save her sister but little does she know when she gets there she learns that Tina has stolen her car stolen her money and left her her 11 year old daughter wayle who Naomi never even knew existed so not only did her sister totally steal everything from her but she has an 11 year old niece that she had no clue existed so Naomi is quite literally like what the hell so she has to figure things out so she stays in a small town to be the caretaker for her niece and she meets a guy named Knox there who's a very Gruff guy another kind of tough guy but has a heart of gold and I'll be honest with you I did enjoy this this was a great romance it took a long it was a very very slow build up and I enjoyed the side characters I enjoyed the small town however the length is the problem I have especially these last few books I'm going to talk about the length is where it falters for me because it's just too long 572 pages is too long for a romance book now I recently have gotten a comment on YouTube on one of my videos where I think I coincidentally I complained about the length of like a novel like this and they said well if it's on Kindle unlimited the authors get paid per page that may be why there's a lot of pages I don't know if that's actually true I don't know but if it is it would make sense of why these books are like over 400 500 pages which I mean nope no qualms to them get your money you wrote the book I understand it but for the sake of plot there's no reason for it to be 572. this book dragged on there were so many chapters I think you can pull out completely from this book and the book would be totally fine you wouldn't miss anything so is this worth the hype I want to say kind of yes I did enjoy it the romance was great the characters were great but again the page count was just way too long that's my main thing with these books they're way way too long if it if it is in fact true that they get paid by the page when it comes to Kindle unlimited like I get it but then I'm like like I don't know like does it make I don't know it's it's I can't really say you know next up we have Icebreaker by Hannah Grace this one is also really long it's 435 Pages again you could have taken multiple chapters out of this book and nothing could have happened to it so this one follows a Gary named Anastasia who is a figure skater trying to be an Olympic figure skater and we have Nate who is the captain of his ice hockey team during college so it's kind of new adult as well they have to share a ring together and they kind of loathe each other Nate actually really likes Anastasia so the whole book he's really trying to woo her show her that he cares and she's very very scared of commitment and doesn't want a lot to do with it because she's so focused on her goals while also there's a lot of mental health talks in this book which I really appreciated again I did enjoy this one was it worth the hype though I don't know because again way too long multiple chapters could have been taken out and nothing would have happened to the plot in my opinion but I'd have to say I did like this one is it very rememberable uh it's so hard for me to judge like whether a book is worth the hype or not for me I'm gonna have to go 50 50 on this one it was okay but I don't know if it was like 100 hypable but that again as always with all these are just me last book that I have to talk about is ice Planet barbarians by Ruby Dixon this is a book series that I've heard a lot about never had any plans on reading until I thought about doing this video and I have to say pretty glad I did this is a book series literally all about aliens and humans and steamy times and that's literally it so with these other books you have where there's just so much that is just not quite essential to the plot that you can be taken out of this one literally like is so short that like you know there's really no plot so in this book we have a character named Georgie and she's sleeping one night and what do you know Georgia Gets Zapped up by some aliens and she's in like a cell with all these other really young females and they have been taken by these aliens that are really really horrible the beginning is not that good and then they get dropped off because the alien ship kind of malfunctions on this planet that is like full of ice and snow and they're like where the heck are they and Georgie being like the kind of leaders of the girls decides to go explore and there she gets captured by an alien named vechnel vector and he is like hey you're my mate I resonated and you are my mate you are mine and whoa things happen from there and basically if you love books about mates if you want a series that where it's like you get a mate you get a mate you get a mate then you get a mate this series is a good one for you if you just want a book all about aliens and if you want a book about aliens and human woman getting it on and this is great for you never thought I would say but I I enjoyed it it was fun it has no sort of plot to it at all do they go into the details about this planet not really do they go in the details about why this is all happening not really you just have to accept it for what it is it's just a book about steamy times and that's all you got again this book is way this book is really short this one comes out in a whopping 218 pages so you got the other ones but are way too long and this one that's a little bit too short so you gotta find a compromise for this one though is it worth the hype yeah because it was a good alien time and I had a good time with it never thought I'd say it but here we are so there you have all of my thoughts and opinions on these books that have been very very hyped up on booktube book talk and things like that and whether or not I thought they were worth the hype I know I'm missing a ton more there's probably a lot more that I've already read so let me know if you have any other books that you've seen on Tick Tock that is you think is worth the hype or not if you've read any of these also did you think they were worth the hype or not I would love to know as always thank you so so much for watching this video and I will see you in my next one bye foreignso our book talk Tick Tock books are they worth the hype probably not hello everyone my name is Heather and welcome to the channel bookables today I'm here to talk about books that are really hyped on Tick Tock and whether or not they are worth that hype so we all know Tick Tock is taking the World by storm whether you agree with it or not is up to you and with that book talk has become very very popular with a lot of books that I really have not heard a lot about being featured a ton like I just see them over and over and over again so I thought hey why not do a video and read a lot of these books that are being really hyped up and see if they really are worth the hype or not we're gonna talk about seven books today that whether or not I think they're worth the hype now of course as always this is objective because you guessed it everyone has different opinions what I may like you might not like what you like I might not like so as always with all of my review videos and all my videos always is take this with a grain of salt at the end of the day read the book for yourself and see if you like it let's get into it because I have seven books the first two books I'm gonna talk about I have actually read previously a while ago so my memory in them is a little bit fuzzy so I would start off with them first up is from blood and Ash by Jennifer L armentrout now she is a very popular author she got into the book scene when I kind of first certain booktube she wrote the obsidian Trilogy I believe which I did not read but I heard a lot about from blood and Ash because everyone was saying it was the next big vampire romance and who am I if not a girl that is obsessed with vampires you got me you're standing at the mouth of hell and it's about to open I read this was so pumped up for it and no no I'm here to tell you if you love vampires you want a vampire romance this ain't this is not for you it's just not that good so this book of father named Poppy who is in this Fantastical world where she's like a maiden where nobody can look at her but of course she falls in love with her bodyguard named Hawk who she discovers is not quite who he says he is this book comes out at a whopping 622 Pages which is not by the stretch of imagination that crazy for like a fantasy book but mostly a romance fantasy books a little bit stretching it and honestly nothing happened in this book like nothing happened the fact that this author made this a Trilogy I I don't get I do not get so I I didn't enjoy this one I can't recommend it honestly because I just didn't like it I really wanted to like it as a vampire lover I am always trust me always looking for a great vampire romance because Angel Spike need I say more but this one just wasn't it so is worth the hype no I do not think so not in my opinion next up is one that I quite really can't fully explain and that is the Spanish love deception and that is the Spanish love deception by Elena Arma so this one took booktube book talk by storm a couple years ago and everyone talked about it and then I decided to read it and I couldn't finish it so this one's technically a dnf but I'm still gonna tell you my thoughts and feelings on it so this book we have a character named Catalina and Aaron and basically the beginning of the book Catalina has to go to this um wedding I believe with her family in Spain and she doesn't have anybody to go with and so her kind of Nemesis guy that she works with Aaron decides to volunteer to be her date and you think that's oh so great yes and I was even for it but by a page 150 I kid you not I'm pretty sure it was either 150. they still were not in Spain they were still like in the office talking like I was like what why this book just really drags on this book had 487 Pages which coincidentally is not the longest romance book I'm talking about today and that's a lengthy romance novel in my opinion to me a good romance novel Falls anywhere between 300 to 400 Pages that's my sweet spot for me if it's any less I feel like it's a little bit too short if it's any more than 400 I feel like it's a little bit too long this one was way too long and was took way too much time I did not like either of the main characters honestly so add dnf it so can I say this is worth a hype or not I guess honestly I can't really say because I did not finish the whole book but I'm glad I didn't I just didn't I wasn't vibing with it and I'm kind of glad I didn't next up we have an indie author and that is the Dreamland billionaires by Lauren Asher they recently got cover redesigns and I gotta say I love them I think they're great with the schematics and blueprints I'm here for it so this is the Dreamland billionaire series which of the books follows a different brother so at the beginning of the book you learn that their grandfather has died he was the CEO of Dreamland AKA four each of them can collect their inheritance he has left them each instructions to do different things the first book kicks off with the character named Rowan and he's he has to like become the CFO for like a few months and try to find dreamlands like weakness and make it better and so he does that so he gets in the nitty-gritty of like um almost like imagineers with Disney World and stuff with the rides and things like that and when there he meets a character named Zara who is kind of in the thick of it she works with a beauty salon and then she gets bumped up to be like kind of imagineer and stuff like that and they butt heads a lot like it is a very hate hate relationship at first but of course things happen steaminess happens and it kind of goes from there again this is a very lengthy one as well oh actually it's probably that's not that bad 440 which is weird enough as I'd say it it's one of the shortest romance books I've read in this list this one like is it worth the hype I'm gonna say kind of yes I liked it I like the whole aspect were each books about a different brother and I've only read the first book in the series but I plan to read other ones I will say I didn't love this one as much as a lot of other people do but I am hopeful to like other ones like I feel like I'm gonna connect with the other brothers and their books instead I think there's terms and conditions and I forget what the other one is but I have to say I get the whole appeal of it the whole Dreamland it's like Disney and reading fairy tales and you know you have kind of a very grumpy CFO with a very happy like sunshiny character I get it stuff we have another Indie author that has since been traditionally published I believe so and that is the Twisted series by Anna Huang the first book is Twisted love and this one follows a character named Alex and Ava and Alex is a very very very he lets you know tough guy like you think a tough guy Alex is like I'm here this is a tough guy I'm Alex I'm way up here and at the beginning of the book his best friend's like hey I'm moving away can you keep an eye on my younger sister Ava and of course you you know what happens Ava again is like literal sunshine and he's the grumpiest of all Grumpy's but also he is very smart he is the badass of all badass he made his first million when he was 11. I I didn't enjoy this I just I don't it was not for me like I just felt like they were she was really pushing hard on Alex being like the best guy ever like the toughest guy ever like the smartest guy ever he made us who was being the CFO of his company at really really young and I'm like I don't know what 11 year olds doing that because I was and I was looking like a total geek so I don't know but again the spicy scenes were a little bit too intense for me in this one this one was very much like kind of oh what's the word like a lot of like Angry type of stuff which I just that's not me but I don't know for this one was the height worth it or not for me no a lot of people say it gets better as the series goes on and I did peek into the other books in the series and I read like kind of skimmed them a little bit so I can't say I fully read them by any means which I have not um but I just I didn't Jive well with any of the other ones as well so for this one for me I didn't love it I don't know if it's worth the hype or not if you want to really steamy very very intense I've esteeming maybe this would be for you but sadly it just wasn't for me so we have probably the most hype one this is the one I've heard about the most other than the Spanish love deception and that is things we never got over it by Lucy's score this is the first book in her knock them out series and this one was for the longest book because holy crap so this book is a whopping 572 Pages let me repeat that this romance book is 572 pages that's insane so this book we have a character named Naomi and she goes to this very very small town in Virginia I'm from Virginia as well um no it's called knock them out pretty sure there's no knock them out really and it's in Northern Virginia I'm in Southern Virginia and she is meeting her twin sister Tina there because Tina calls her and she's like I need help like come help me and so Naomi kind of leaves her wedding like she decides not to get married to this guy and she goes to save her sister but little does she know when she gets there she learns that Tina has stolen her car stolen her money and left her her 11 year old daughter wayle who Naomi never even knew existed so not only did her sister totally steal everything from her but she has an 11 year old niece that she had no clue existed so Naomi is quite literally like what the hell so she has to figure things out so she stays in a small town to be the caretaker for her niece and she meets a guy named Knox there who's a very Gruff guy another kind of tough guy but has a heart of gold and I'll be honest with you I did enjoy this this was a great romance it took a long it was a very very slow build up and I enjoyed the side characters I enjoyed the small town however the length is the problem I have especially these last few books I'm going to talk about the length is where it falters for me because it's just too long 572 pages is too long for a romance book now I recently have gotten a comment on YouTube on one of my videos where I think I coincidentally I complained about the length of like a novel like this and they said well if it's on Kindle unlimited the authors get paid per page that may be why there's a lot of pages I don't know if that's actually true I don't know but if it is it would make sense of why these books are like over 400 500 pages which I mean nope no qualms to them get your money you wrote the book I understand it but for the sake of plot there's no reason for it to be 572. this book dragged on there were so many chapters I think you can pull out completely from this book and the book would be totally fine you wouldn't miss anything so is this worth the hype I want to say kind of yes I did enjoy it the romance was great the characters were great but again the page count was just way too long that's my main thing with these books they're way way too long if it if it is in fact true that they get paid by the page when it comes to Kindle unlimited like I get it but then I'm like like I don't know like does it make I don't know it's it's I can't really say you know next up we have Icebreaker by Hannah Grace this one is also really long it's 435 Pages again you could have taken multiple chapters out of this book and nothing could have happened to it so this one follows a Gary named Anastasia who is a figure skater trying to be an Olympic figure skater and we have Nate who is the captain of his ice hockey team during college so it's kind of new adult as well they have to share a ring together and they kind of loathe each other Nate actually really likes Anastasia so the whole book he's really trying to woo her show her that he cares and she's very very scared of commitment and doesn't want a lot to do with it because she's so focused on her goals while also there's a lot of mental health talks in this book which I really appreciated again I did enjoy this one was it worth the hype though I don't know because again way too long multiple chapters could have been taken out and nothing would have happened to the plot in my opinion but I'd have to say I did like this one is it very rememberable uh it's so hard for me to judge like whether a book is worth the hype or not for me I'm gonna have to go 50 50 on this one it was okay but I don't know if it was like 100 hypable but that again as always with all these are just me last book that I have to talk about is ice Planet barbarians by Ruby Dixon this is a book series that I've heard a lot about never had any plans on reading until I thought about doing this video and I have to say pretty glad I did this is a book series literally all about aliens and humans and steamy times and that's literally it so with these other books you have where there's just so much that is just not quite essential to the plot that you can be taken out of this one literally like is so short that like you know there's really no plot so in this book we have a character named Georgie and she's sleeping one night and what do you know Georgia Gets Zapped up by some aliens and she's in like a cell with all these other really young females and they have been taken by these aliens that are really really horrible the beginning is not that good and then they get dropped off because the alien ship kind of malfunctions on this planet that is like full of ice and snow and they're like where the heck are they and Georgie being like the kind of leaders of the girls decides to go explore and there she gets captured by an alien named vechnel vector and he is like hey you're my mate I resonated and you are my mate you are mine and whoa things happen from there and basically if you love books about mates if you want a series that where it's like you get a mate you get a mate you get a mate then you get a mate this series is a good one for you if you just want a book all about aliens and if you want a book about aliens and human woman getting it on and this is great for you never thought I would say but I I enjoyed it it was fun it has no sort of plot to it at all do they go into the details about this planet not really do they go in the details about why this is all happening not really you just have to accept it for what it is it's just a book about steamy times and that's all you got again this book is way this book is really short this one comes out in a whopping 218 pages so you got the other ones but are way too long and this one that's a little bit too short so you gotta find a compromise for this one though is it worth the hype yeah because it was a good alien time and I had a good time with it never thought I'd say it but here we are so there you have all of my thoughts and opinions on these books that have been very very hyped up on booktube book talk and things like that and whether or not I thought they were worth the hype I know I'm missing a ton more there's probably a lot more that I've already read so let me know if you have any other books that you've seen on Tick Tock that is you think is worth the hype or not if you've read any of these also did you think they were worth the hype or not I would love to know as always thank you so so much for watching this video and I will see you in my next one bye foreign\n"