Neither the personality of this butterfly nor the situation in which they are, for obvious reasons, allow a true love story that would probably occur outside a confinement. The book is full of complex characters: the Gardener, his son Desmond -because the other, Avery, has nothing complex-, and Maya have a number of nuances that are not lost through the development of the facts.Īs the story progresses, a love story (although very unloving) begins to develop with Maya and Desmond. Avery on a much higher level than Desmond, but the second is still an accomplice. The Gardener's two children, Avery and Desmond, are also part of the Garden and their father's atrocities. But still, he has them kidnapped and, apparently, abuses.
How can you love someone that way? The Gardener is a sweet, sensitive, delicate and careful man with his butterflies. But, above all, the gardener's strange obsession with his butterflies, an obsession that is finally explained, but never understood. Little by little, Maya is opening to tell in detail her experience with abuse and death in the garden. The twisted ideas of the kidnapper, whom she calls the Gardener, become unknown, causing the reader to devour each page to discover and understand the reason for the existence of the garden. Beauty has never been so scary.” From there, we can begin to assume what awaits us with Dot Hutchison's The Butterfly Garden.įrom the perspective of Maya, a young woman who was kidnapped, we are able to find this garden where each of the captive women is a butterfly.
On the cover, the book receives the reader with a message: “More chilling than The Silence of the Innocents.
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