Book Chat: The Butterfly Garden

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The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

From Amazon:

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.

In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.

As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding…

My Take:

I finally got around to reading ‘The Butterfly Garden’ (The Collector Trilogy) by Dot Hutchison after it sat on my Kindle for a while, being grossly overlooked. I think I actually tried reading it a couple of times but just wasn’t in the mood. Crazy lady! This book needs to be made into a movie for two solid reasons:

1. It rocked!
2. I was soooo not able to visualise the garden and its subsequent rooms so if Hollywood wouldn’t mind helping me out, that’d be great…

So, back to what I thought of the story itself, as I said, it rocked. It was so totally engrossing and while there were loads of names to remember and little things about the people who owned those names, it wasn’t convoluted at all and the plot really developed nicely. I always furrow my brow when the character seems to be too smart for their years and “Maya” was one of those characters. Perhaps I was a completely immature girl many moons ago and yeah, I still enjoy a good fart joke so maybe there really are kids out there who have Poe memorised, etc., who am I to say?!

The story moved along quickly and I found myself whizzing through the pages to see how it all ended. I’m not a spoiler so I’m not going into too much detail but suffice it to say that if you’re a fan of thrillers like Gone Girl, yada yada yada, you’ll probably like this one.

Anyone read it and care to share your thoughts?

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