The Butterfly Garden
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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...
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4 primary books#1 in The Collector
The Collector is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Dot Hutchison.
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4.5
This blew me away, I think it was written so beautifully, I liked how everything made sense and lined up together in the end. I like the messed up way the Gradner was written, that he believes that he is the girls' savior and that he takes care of his butterflies even though he kills them and showcase them , I really pictured him as a realist villain and not exaggerated.
I cared for the girls and liked Innara/Maya's reason for wanting to hide something from the FBI which at first I thought that was just for making the book longer.
The portrayal of the kidnapped girls and how they acted and were adjusting to the garden was accurate in my humble opinion. There were stuff that were disturbing and it was fitting to the story. I was really invested in the book and can't wait till I pick up the rest of the books.
