This is one of the first short story collections I’ve read since I’ve left high school. Honestly, I just preferred longer stories when I had “limited” free reading time during college and after work. But, as we draw nearer to Halloween and I am branching out to writing my own short stories completely separate from “The Monster of Selkirk” series, I decided it was about time I brush up on the short story format. So I killed two birds with one stone here: a book of nothing but scary stories! Which does make this a bit of a unique review for me as well, since there are a slew of different stories of varying lengths with different kinds of monsters… I’m not going to review each story individually. It would make this review unnecessarily long and, more importantly, ruin all of the elements of suspense, horror, and general creepy factor for the entire collection. So I’ll be looking at Sutton’s book as a collective whole rather than its individual stories.
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Do you like watching outrageous amounts of Law & Order? Specifically Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit? Then read this book now. Seriously, this book is like reading an episode of SVU mixed a little with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Hopefully that gives you a pretty good idea of where this book goes, even without reading the synopsis. If you are sensitive to rape, kidnapping, or people with just really messed up lives, you probably won't enjoy this at all so save yourself the trouble. However, if that stuff doesn't bother you and you're looking for a quick read that is a thrilling page turner, then ta-da! I found the book for you! The Butterfly Garden is the story of one sick, and twisted individual's psychotic attempts of making a massive butterfly garden where his butterflies are the most beautiful girls he can find. He then kidnaps them, tattoos elaborate and beautiful butterfly wings on their back, and keeps them in his garden. Until they turn 21. Then things get even more messed up.
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