Maya had a dysfunctional childhood that forced her to become street smart at a young age. All the girls are marked with death the moment they come into his "care." He keeps them locked away in a glass harem, until they turn twenty-one-years of age. The Gardener kidnaps young women and tattoos butterfly wings on their backs. As the interview unwinds, we are left with bits and pieces of the story. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are interviewing her to find out about the other girls and also about the man who called himself the Gardener. Honestly, it reads like Gillian Flynn decided to rewrite THE COLLECTOR as a dysfunctional harem in the style of James Patterson's Alex Cross books, and it's darned good. It is possible to be influenced by other work(s) and still make your story your own - something Hutchison does with great skill. That said, I am not implying that THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN is derivative in the slightest. Both are about women held captive who are desperate to escape. Both are about obsessive men who compare women to butterflies and see them as sexual fetish objects to be owned and collected. I would be very surprised if Hutchison never read John Fowles's THE COLLECTOR - the parallels are numerous. Authors who excel at doom and gloom are so few and far I'm rather desperate to get my hands on A It's probably one of the best books I've received for reviewįrom that site this year.
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