Lyonette who is the mother hen to the other girls. Zara the bitch who is mean to everyone and yet still claims our affection in the end. The straight-talking, spirited Bliss who never knows when to shut her mouth. The depth of the characterization is fascinating. “I can’t think of any reason it can’t be both.” I’ve seen it in a few others, but for myself? Maybe I’m just not capable of it.” “Honestly? I don’t think I know what that kind of love is. There are no throwaway characters and the author portrays each victim as an important individual in her own right. The intricate friendships and different personalities. The author doesn't shy away from grotesque details, but it is so well-written, each character so well-crafted, that it never feels gratuitous or deliberately sensational.īut, perhaps the thing that makes The Butterfly Garden stand out so much from other thrillers that contain tension, mystery and psychopaths, is the relationship between the young women.
Full of secrets that keep us reading, but likable enough for us to be pulled along for the ride on an emotional level too. The perfect balance of ugliness and beauty.Īnd Maya is the perfect narrator. It is a chilling, terrifying thriller, and yet it is so beautifully told. At night, the creature that was the Garden peeled back its synthetic skin to show the skeleton beneath. As she recounts her tale of life as a captive, it becomes clear that she is hiding something, and the agents begin to question what part Maya played in these crimes.ĭuring the day there was conversation and movement, sometimes games or songs, and it masked the sound of the pipes feeding water and nutrients through the beds, of the fans that circulated the air. And maybe, just maybe, she knows something more. The truth behind what happens to the girls when they turn twenty-one. But it is the witness they are interviewing - known only as Maya - who really knows what it was like behind the garden walls. He calls them "Butterflies", tattooing wings on their backs before renaming them, raping them and letting his violent son terrorize them. What they know is that they have found "The Garden", a prison where the psychopath known as "The Gardener" has kept young women trapped for decades. It's set in the present with two FBI agents trying to uncover the truth behind the crime scene they have just discovered. And my instincts were right - I was enthralled from page one. It promised a story of beauty and horror. It exuded a dark creepiness that drew me in.
But it popped up in my GR feed and everything about it called to me. I haven't been highly anticipating it for months and it only made it on to my "to read" shelf a few days ago. The Butterfly Garden was a book I knew nothing about. At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was.
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