Even tho I wanted to end on the third book after reading the beginning of the fourth one I just kept going. Nothing much else on my tbr that I can get my hands on and I was intrigued to see the story from a different perspective.
Sadly, in the end, it wasn't nearly as interesting as I hoped.

My biggest problem with this book was that it is in large part a straight-up recap of the first three books. The spoken dialogue has to be the same (obviously) but a lot of the narrator's voice, as well as internal thoughts, are completely copied from the previous books as well. There is very little original content in this one. I suffered a constant Deja Vu effect because I recognized so many identical sentences outside of spoken dialogue.
In the end, I only took a slightly better understanding of why he acted so protective as well as confirmation of a lot of the flaws that annoyed me in the previous books already with me.
To me, this seems like a missed chance to clean up plotholes and shine a different light on a lot of situations and characters.

I could really see myself getting into a book like this (that retells the story from a different perspective) given a much better execution. There just has to be more new... information? I am not sure how to put it into words.

My speculation is that because the author was so thorough in making sure everything they experienced together matched flawlessly, she was badly primed to her own previous thoughts when writing the first three books so a lot of it came out much too similar to the template.
Maybe writing something like this from memory alone and doing an admittedly tedious and time-intensive second pass to adjust everything to fit the previous books, later on, would be a better approach to help more original thoughts to surface.

One advantage of this book is that you can read entire pages half asleep comprehending only half of it but still not lose track or miss anything (which I did every now and then). ( )

Didn't really enjoy it. It was telling book #1 from Nicholas's point of view. It gave a few more details on what went on with Nicholas but most of it seemed to be word for word from the 1st book. The other books in series to this point were great! and the one after is also great! You can skip this and not miss much. ( )

Actually 4.5.
It was fun seeing everything from Nikolas' POV, and I loved seeing more of his relationship with Tristan. I only wish we got to see Sara actually meeting Nikolas' parents . ( )