The whole story ended with such a ridiculous and constructed solution, I was wondering if I was still reading the same book. For me, that was the turning point where everything went downhill, and fast. At the end the reader learns that a former roommate of Maya was the only 'Butterfly' who ever managed to escape, and that Maya may even have provoked her capture on purpose. However, once the release was set into motion, the story was getting more and more unbelievable. I was glad that Maya did not completely fall for the Gardener's younger son, but efficiently manipulated him into helping the girls escape. However, each such moment was easily revealed as illusion by the next horrific and inhuman treatment. It was fascinating how within such an unbelievable and cruel situation there where still glimpses of hope and spontaneous happiness to be found. But the next moment, the reader is taken back into reality - the girls are held captive, repeatedly raped and eventually killed. Some passages read like the girls live in a secluded artificial kind of paradise, especially within the beautiful setting of the glass conservatory, complete with a small waterfall and stream. The story is told from the POV of Maya, as the Gardener named her, after most of the girls are finally rescued. Most of the girls learn to arrange themselves with their situation, and others don't stay for long. But whenever a girl reaches her 21st birthday he kills and preserves her in a glass cabinet like in a real butterfly collection. Here he visits them to satisfy his desires, even considering himself in a very twisted way as their benefactor. A man who calls himself the Gardener holds over twenty girls captive, marking each with a butterfly tattoo on their backs and 'collecting' them in a huge conservatory.
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