The Butterfly Garden

What would you do?

This is quite an uncomfortable read. Especially for a woman. There is always that fear in the back of our heads of being taken or hurt someway. This book is the ultimate nightmare.

We follow the story told in a very silence of the lambs fashion, of a girl who survived the worst case scenario. Or did she? How long was she enduring this, was she a part of it? Can we believe what she says? And from the beggining, although we know very little about her, we are told to believe. And it's terrifying. Not because it's horror, but because of the real human awful things that she recounts.

Her little descriptions of seemingly every day details in this place, even when she got to strangely settle, to survive the day to day, something always popped up to remind her and us of the stakes here.

And to “survive”, she made questionable choices. We are not meant to like her, or even agree. But in a realistic way, we are to question ourselves if we can judge, and what would we do. Like i said, terribly uncomfortable read. But real somehow. Hard to rate too, because while it wasn't enjoyable, i get it, and it feels like an important read somehow.

I don't rate it five stars, because although i liked the resolution, i did feel the explanation as to why we know little about the MC ended up being rather ludicrous and unnecessary. Other than that, it gripped me from start to finish.