So I loved the prequel book (I know it gets a lot of hate) but it was an amazing dynamic and very steamy. However, this book was just too damn long. The first 50% I enjoyed for the most part but then it got very stale to me and I just had enough. I powered through the rest of it but it wasn't really worth it. I love jake and caleb, they were chefs kiss perfect combo. If the book was only them 2 and like 200 pages less, I probably would've rated it 5 stars. But.... I just do not give a damn about Ilmari. I'm glad people love this book and maybe I'm being harsh, but nothing about him was exciting to me. I don't care for them speaking a different language and his entire personality just felt like being a big brute with no redeeming factors at all. It does have really good smut in it but at times the scenes are very far apart and the story between them was just getting old after a while.