If the ‘butterflies’ try to escape, or try to kill themselves too many times, they get embalmed earlier. His sadistic son Avery visits the Garden too, but the Gardener bans him now and then, after he hurts or destroys any of the ‘butterflies’.
In the Garden, the ‘butterflies’ have an expiry date, as beautiful things don’t last forever the Gardener embalms them in a see-through case, showcasing their beautiful tattoo, on their 21st birthday. The agents find out that Maya is called Inara before her capture, which was also a fake identity – one she bought to run away from a home where she was not loved and pretended to be older than she is so that she could work and live on her own. First, Maya isn’t her real name – it was a name given by the Gardener, who names all his butterflies after he has given them a set of tattooed wings on their backs.
Maya isn’t really helping with the situation either – she appears to be holding back some secrets.
Now FBI Agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison have brought in a survivor Maya for questioning to piece together the whole story.Īs the other ‘butterflies’ look to Maya for answers, the FBI agents wonders if Maya was more than just a victim. The ‘butterflies’ are teenage girls abducted and locked up in a big beautiful garden, where they are visited and raped by the ‘The Gardener’. The Butterfly Garden starts off at the end – where the FBI have found the garden, captured the man and his sons, and rescued the ‘butterflies’. **This part of the review consist of Plot Spoilers I don’t think it’s correctly classified as a thriller, because it wasn’t a fast-paced secret spy type of story then again, I don’t know what other better classification it would have – “creepy books” or “psycho books” perhaps? There’s twisted darkness but beauty in it, like the Gardener and his ‘butterflies’. This is a very dark book and somewhat fascinatingly so perhaps there’s a masochistic psychopath hiding in the deep dark depths of my inner soul, but I actually find myself really liking the book and couldn’t quite stop reading it. It is about a man who kidnaps teenage girls and locks them up in a beautiful garden where he rapes them, as well as put his mark on them – in the shape of a beautiful Butterfly tattoo on their backs. This popped up on my suggested readings in Amazon store – I don’t know why because it’s very dark and somewhat depressing, not my usual cup of tea. Today’s book review on The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison is slightly off the usual kind of books that I reach for and after reading it, I would say that it is definitely not for everyone.
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