The Butterfly Garden
By Dot HutchisonPublished: Thomas and Mercer, 2016
Pages: 288
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Amazon, Goodreads
"Why do you mark us?"
"Because a garden must have its butterflies."
Wow, talk about taking me by surprise! The Butterfly Garden is an engaging, wonderfully written novel about a man who kidnaps teenagers and holds them against their will in a beautiful garden that holds gruesome secrets.
I absolutely loved the characters. They're all so well-written and eloquent, even the antagonist of the story - the Gardener and his cruel son Avery. I felt deeply for all of the girls stuck in the Gardner's sick fantasy... Maya, Lyonette, Bliss are all characters that I could FEEL them, feel what they were feeling and feel their heartbreak when one of the other girls went "away."
The Butterfly Garden is filled with horrors, a place constructed by a mentally unstable man who creates a garden within a garden to keep young girls and rapes them and then preserves them. The novel truly exhibits how something utterly beautiful can also be horrendous.
I loved this novel. It's truly a gem that I would not have bothered taking a second glance at until I saw a Goodreads review from someone I follow. I hope that my readers that enjoy thrillers give The Butterfly Garden a chance.
RATING (out of five puppies):
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