The Butterfly Garden

Title: The Butterfly Garden
Author: Dot Hutchison
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Format: Paperback
Pages: 391
Reason Read: Play Book Tag
Rating:

My Thoughts

THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN was very suspenseful and unique because it switches between first-person narration to third-person limited narration, which I haven’t really encountered before. It was a good way to tell the story and made me want to keep reading so I could find out what happened. I also really like the MC, Maya, and thought she was an interesting character.

Unlike other reviews suggested, I don’t think the story was very plausible. I think I could’ve liked it and even overlooked the implausibility IF the antagonist hadn’t seemed so “normal” instead of the psychopath he was. The story contained quite a few rapes, but the way the writer described them (not too descriptively, thankfully), they seemed more like normal sexual encounters than the assaults they were and that didn’t sit well with me.