This book was AMAZING!!! I went through so many emotions while reading. First, there's the hope because you start off knowing the girls escpaed the Garden. But then you feel such anger and sadness at the horrors the girls go through while there. The Gardener is a pyscho, and his son is worse. The things that go on in the Garden range from a sick kind of intimacy to brutal cruelty. The story of what happened in the Garden is told by 'Maya'. You grow to love, and mourn, so many of the girls or 'Butterflies' through her eyes, learning their personalities and habits. But Maya is holding something back and finding out what she was hiding was mind blowing. I didn't expect it in any sense of the word. I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.