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emmascr's review
4.0
This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.After reading the other books in the #LoveLondon series I couldn't wait to read Picnic's in Hyde park.
This book begins with Zoe banging down Matt's door. She's arrived back in the UK heartbroken to find her sister in a similar state with the added 'bonus' of losing her job.
Zoe is really caring and smart but she is also extremely stubborn. She gets it into her head that she needs to get revenge for Melody and comes up with this crazy plan to humiliate Matt.
Matt is a quite blunt and rude at times but deep down a great guy who loves his kids. He can get caught up in his own world and when he does he can sometimes be a bit selfish. When you get to know him you see that actually a really sweet guy.
I loved Zoe and Matt's story all the twist and turns and the obstacles they have to overcome.
I absolutely adored how each of the characters from book 1-5 are in this book and love that they are all connected. This book is the perfect summer read and will have you craving a trip London, stat.
This book begins with Zoe banging down Matt's door. She's arrived back in the UK heartbroken to find her sister in a similar state with the added 'bonus' of losing her job.
Zoe is really caring and smart but she is also extremely stubborn. She gets it into her head that she needs to get revenge for Melody and comes up with this crazy plan to humiliate Matt.
Matt is a quite blunt and rude at times but deep down a great guy who loves his kids. He can get caught up in his own world and when he does he can sometimes be a bit selfish. When you get to know him you see that actually a really sweet guy.
I loved Zoe and Matt's story all the twist and turns and the obstacles they have to overcome.
I absolutely adored how each of the characters from book 1-5 are in this book and love that they are all connected. This book is the perfect summer read and will have you craving a trip London, stat.
sarahs_bookish_life's review
4.0
Picnics in Hyde Park is an enjoyable read that I just flew through.
Zoe and Matt are both great characters that are very likeable and it is obvious right from the start the attraction that they both feel towards each other.
As Zoe comes into Matts life by becoming a nanny to Matts two children it was also great to see the relationship between Zoe and the children also. Having lost his wife in an accident three years ago, it is obvious how raw it still is for Matt and the children and quite often it brought a tear to my eye throughout the story.
This is the first of Nikki's books that I have read and will certainly be reading more.
Zoe and Matt are both great characters that are very likeable and it is obvious right from the start the attraction that they both feel towards each other.
As Zoe comes into Matts life by becoming a nanny to Matts two children it was also great to see the relationship between Zoe and the children also. Having lost his wife in an accident three years ago, it is obvious how raw it still is for Matt and the children and quite often it brought a tear to my eye throughout the story.
This is the first of Nikki's books that I have read and will certainly be reading more.
ljbentley27's review
5.0
Oh my giddy aunt, I cannot express just how much I have loved the #LoveLondon stories. Having read all the short stories in the series it was such a thrill to get to read the full length novel. After I had finished turning the last page I felt that sensation of contentment that you only get after reading a good book. Picnics in Hyde Park is wonderful.
The whole #LoveLondon series had a cast of colourful and memorable characters and it was a joy to meet up with them again in Picnics in Hyde Park; Moore has woven them into the story so seamlessly that their presence in the novel is both plausible and expected (little hints are littered in the short stories – basically realisation light bulbs kept going off as I read the novel and understood the cross references).
Picnics in Hyde Park is about Zoe, a nanny who has just returned from America having been scorned by her lover. She returns angry and is further incensed when she finds out her younger sister Melody has just been wrongly terminated from her job. Zoe goes to find out why Melody as fired but unintentionally lands herself a job working for the same employer.
Zoe wants to exact revenge on behalf of her sister but as she falls deeper in love with the children that she is looking after but also her developing and complicated feelings for her boss Matt.
But the course of true love never did run smoothly.
As I said earlier, I bloody love the #LoveLondon series and Picnics in Hyde Park is no exception. I must admit I was yelling at the characters (in particular, Zoe) at several points in the novel. I had an impending sense of doom all the way through the story but it just spurned me on to read more. Picnics in Hyde Park was simply a delight to read and I am genuinely saddened that the series is over.
Picnics in Hyde Park by Nikki Moore is available now.
Follow Nikki Moore (@NikkiMoore_Auth) on Twitter.
The whole #LoveLondon series had a cast of colourful and memorable characters and it was a joy to meet up with them again in Picnics in Hyde Park; Moore has woven them into the story so seamlessly that their presence in the novel is both plausible and expected (little hints are littered in the short stories – basically realisation light bulbs kept going off as I read the novel and understood the cross references).
Picnics in Hyde Park is about Zoe, a nanny who has just returned from America having been scorned by her lover. She returns angry and is further incensed when she finds out her younger sister Melody has just been wrongly terminated from her job. Zoe goes to find out why Melody as fired but unintentionally lands herself a job working for the same employer.
Zoe wants to exact revenge on behalf of her sister but as she falls deeper in love with the children that she is looking after but also her developing and complicated feelings for her boss Matt.
But the course of true love never did run smoothly.
As I said earlier, I bloody love the #LoveLondon series and Picnics in Hyde Park is no exception. I must admit I was yelling at the characters (in particular, Zoe) at several points in the novel. I had an impending sense of doom all the way through the story but it just spurned me on to read more. Picnics in Hyde Park was simply a delight to read and I am genuinely saddened that the series is over.
Picnics in Hyde Park by Nikki Moore is available now.
Follow Nikki Moore (@NikkiMoore_Auth) on Twitter.
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