Then, when there was a reveal around her at the end … well, it didn’t particularly work for me. Honestly, I didn’t find it all that believable. Second, for a good chunk of the book, Dot Hutchison tried to add this level of suspicion to Maya, the young woman narrating the tale of horrors in the Garden.
I love butterflies and I didn’t want to associate a psycho with them (eventually, that connection broke, thank goodness). Two things I didn’t like about this one: for a few months after I finished the book, I found myself associating butterflies with the negative, which I hated. The Butterfly Garden, a truly unique serial killer story. I think there was a time when I liked it (especially during my Dean Kootnz phase), but the older I get, the less I enjoy it. You know, since beginning to write these reviews, I’m realizing how much I’m just not a fan of that. I also enjoyed not being in the serial killer’s head.
I think part of the reason why I found the book so interesting is because it’s actually a story about a community of young women who have to find a way to survive and keep their sanity in a world that is both beautiful and horrifying, where they are both pampered and tortured. It’s not clear why she’s in the hospital or what precisely happened to her, so there’s almost two simultaneous mysteries going on: who is this girl, what happened to the Gardner, and what IS the whole garden and butterflies thing? The story is told through a series of flashbacks from one of the victims, who is in the hospital and is telling her story to FBI agents. But, in terms of the serial killer/crime fiction genre, this was a very creative approach. It’s the first book in a series (The Collector Book 1), although the rest of the series seemed a bit less successful (more on that in my next review). “The Butterfly Garden” by Dot Hutchison was a fascinating book. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. 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. Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.
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