A review by westernskynaida
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

5.0

I’ve started being less critical of books and less afraid to give books a full rating. So this one definitely is a full 5/5 for me

I feel this was really well written for showing how someone experienced trauma - past and current trauma. Stockholm syndrome from both the persecutor’s side and the victim’s was also very well written

Even with how disjointed some of the parts were, it made sense with how Maya’s trauma played out

This book was also very good at making my skin crawl with how terrifyingly close to some true crime stories I’ve heard about played out or could have played out

I’ll definitely be checking out the rest of the series of these books because I read this so quickly