"Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing." 
 This book had me from page one. And I devoured it in one night. I couldn't put it down, I couldn't go to sleep. That was how gripping this story was. 
 Oh where do I even begin to do this book justice? It was heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and absolutely horrifying. But it was written so beautifully that it contradicted all the ugly in the story. I don't know how best to describe it. It was like a whole other world that didn't feel real but at the same time very, very, very real. I don't think I'm making sense, but that was the sense and the overwhelming feeling that I had as I was reading the book. 
 So, there is this 'garden', tended by who I can only describe as a psychopath, known as The Gardener. Only, this is no ordinary garden. Because inside this beautiful garden are butterflies; girls kidnapped from the streets and their homes to be tattooed with butterfly wings across their backs, and are constantly raped until their time is deemed up. Oh it's harrowing to read of their plights. 
 We see about the happenings inside the garden through the eyes of one of the girls kidnapped, Maya. And it is because of her that I find this story emotionally-gripping. Her friendship with the other girls, her strength, her cynical attitude were everything. 
 And now I can't stop thinking of her and the other girls. To think, that this could be or actually is the reality for a lot of people out there in the real world, my heart is breaking. The book ended on what was described as a good day. And I hope to God that a lot of good days will happen to everyone and anyone who are experiencing any forms of injustice.