Crime Fiction

Fri 18 Sep 2020 04:21 BST

The Butterfly Garden: Creepy but addictive crime fiction

If you really like serial killers stories, you'll love this

I must to say that this book is not for everyone, because at some point get so twisted and gross that you can barely believe that's happening, I mean in the book.

The best resume with spoiler would be that there is a prison called "The garden" where a twisted man known as "The Gardener", who kidnaps young women and keeps them in his private prison, also tattoing them a buttefly wings on their back to later rename them, but there is something more, when they turn 21, he put them in formaldehyde to preserve their beauty forever.

The story is being told by Maya, when you start the book, all events have happened, and Maya is being interrogated by an FBI agent, who has followed the case for a while, the FBI agent wants to discover what really happened, because, he thinks that there is something more, that Maya is not saying.

The story also bounces between the life in "The Garden" and the interview room as flashback, telling us Maya's days in the garden since her first day to the actual day. This make the book gripping, and you always get hooked to try to unveil what will happend in the next chapter

The author does an excellent job, portraying the gardener's motivation. He is able to find in his twisted mind to find delicate words to describe what he does to the butterflies, as he calls them.

What most impressed me or outraged me, was how the violence and abuse, in all its forms, becomes normal within "The Garden", the butterflies just accept their fate, it was what most outraged me. Also some scenes are so graphic, that you can't contain your repulsion, but overall how the idea that make this psychopath, does what it does, his reason is well adressed.

Although the end, does not work for me, and also some plot holes like, there are at least 20 girls in the garden, if they organized they could scape, come on, they surpass them 20 to 3, its fantastic but the end takes away the impact that the story as a whole could have had

This is the first book of "The collector Series" by Dot Hutchison, I can't wait to see where the author is heading with this series. So 3 to go!