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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us the collector 2 book free the problem. Return to Book Page. The collector 2 book free — Roses of May by Dot Hutchison. Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place the collector 2 book free young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside.

With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead.

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Kindle Editionpages. More Details Original Title. The Collector 2. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror Other Editions All Editions Add a New Edition. Friend Reviews. To the collector 2 book free what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Roses of Mayplease sign up. Oh my goodness I would give anything for a copy of this book, is that even possible? Butterfly Garden entered me into an entire new world of books and it still remains to be one of my favorites.

I felt in the first chapters as if it wasn’t possible the book could get any better but I was so unbelievably wrong. I am so anxious to see what comes of The Roses of May.

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Deep breath. So last year I stumbled upon a novel titled The Butterfly Garden on NetGalley and decided it looked equal parts disturbing and beautiful, and it was both of those things and so much more. It was light horror kept wholly in the natural world; I was stunned at how the author wrote of such nightmare inducing content with a fully readable nature. TBG might very well stay in my list of most memorable reads; it was читать статью that good and I highly recommend it to anyone with a strong enough stomach.

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I didn’t hate it, but I never really felt a strong connection to any of the characters either. It also seemed to have several long lulls, where I was waiting for something In my opinion, this follow-up wasn’t nearly as good as the first book. Check out more of my reviews at www. View all 17 comments. Jun 04, Always Pouting привожу ссылку it really liked it.

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View all 83 comments. Aug 25, Candace rated it liked it Shelves: kindle-unlimited , dark-themes , dangerous-hero-themed-books-read , listened-to-audio-version. Although there are a few connections, through characters, between the two books, they are really not a major factor.

This book could easily be read as a standalone. Year’s ago, Priya’s sister, Chavi, was murdered by a serial killer that has managed to evade capture for over a decade. Now it seems that she has become the murderer’s latest obsession. Priya and her mother have moved all over the country trying to lay low and avoid Priya’s new stalker.

With each new springtime murder, Priya receives flowers like the ones left on the victims. It is clear that they are coming from the murderer. Meanwhile, three eager FBI agents work with Priya to try and find the killer before he strikes again. Some have a more personal stake in the manhunt and over the years they’ve formed a bond with Priya and her mother. Eventually they begin considering ways to use Priya to help them draw out the killer.

All in all, it was an okay type of read. I didn’t hate it, but I never really felt a strong connection to any of the characters either. It also seemed to have several long lulls, where I was waiting for something In my opinion, this follow-up wasn’t nearly as good as the first book. Check out more of my reviews at www. View all 17 comments. Jun 04, Always Pouting rated it really liked it. Years ago Priya Sravasti’s sister was murdered by a serial killer who is still at large, leaving her family irreversibly changed.

Her mother, Deshani, must constantly change location for her work helping to shape up HR departments making them move across the country constantly. When Priya’s mother is profiled for her success she happens to mention the new town they’re moving to this time leading the serial killer after them. When flowers that match up with the murder victims begin to show up on Years ago Priya Sravasti’s sister was murdered by a serial killer who is still at large, leaving her family irreversibly changed.

When flowers that match up with the murder victims begin to show up on their doorstep Priya and her mother inform the FBI, but after hearing about another person’s on going court case Priya must decide whether or not she’ll have to take justice into her own hands. I haven’t read the butterfly collector, though I definitely plan to now, so I didn’t know about the butterfly girls and the garden going into the book.

It didn’t take away from the book though because it does a good job of letting the reader know about it and what happened. Reading about the aftermath was really interesting also, especially the public attention and the court case. I never thought about the negative attention that must come with being attached to such a high profile case before. The main story line was definitely intriguing and can I just say Priya and Deshani were great, I love scary and strong women.

I don’t know how I felt about the killer though, because I thought it was kind of obvious who it was and view spoiler [ I don’t see why the first girl he kills had to be his sister hide spoiler ] like what was the point of that plot twist it felt unnecessary. It just made the FBI look dumb, which okay they kind of are so it’s realistic, because the first victim is supposed to be the most important one, the one usually linked to the killer and I can’t believe they didn’t look into him earlier.

I was super happy about view spoiler [ Priya killing him hide spoiler ] because that was pretty awesome. I think it was completely justified.

Anyway I enjoyed the book, though I’m not sure how neatly the two arcs of Priya and the butterfly girl’s came together.

The identity of the killer wasn’t surprising but the build up to the confrontation was excellent. View all 33 comments.

Nov 03, Mischenko rated it liked it. I read The Butterfly Garden in and it was truly a captivating thriller. When I saw that the second book was out, I requested it from NetGalley right away.

The problem was that I was too late getting to it and ended up having to purchase the book. The story follows Priya, a girl who lost her sister Chavi four years ago after she was murdered.

Priya and her mother are still very upset about the loss of Chavi and relocate frequently as they are working hard to move on with their lives and to keep low. I think what threw me off the most is that this book is nothing like the first and takes place about four months after the end of The Butterfly Garden with not much focus on the first book at all. I had issues connecting with the characters, but I did enjoy the relationship between them and I did still enjoy the book, especially the ending.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for allowing me to preview this book for an honest review. May 15, Mary Beth rated it really liked it Shelves: up-to-date. This is the second book of The Collector Series. I recommend that you start with book 1 The Butterfly Garden. I loved The Butterfly Garden and this one was really creepy good. I didn’t find it to be as disturbing as the first book. I loved this one too.

It continues the story of the butterfly girls while introducing us to a new plot. There is a new serial killer who kills a teenage girl and leaves her body in a church surrounded by flowers, every spring for well over a decade.

Priya and her mother move every few months to be safe. They seem to be doing good in a small Colorado town but then flowers begin to appear and are afraid that they are in danger. I loved the author’s writing style and how the characters were developed. You still have some of the same characters, the FBI Agents, and a couple of the butterfly girls. The main character is Priya who is the sister of one of the serial killer’s victims.

Even though she tries to be tough, at times she is depressed and angry at what happened to her sister five years ago.

Priya’s mother is very protective and dominant. This is a very tense read. It is so suspenseful. I loved the action, which didn’t seem to stop with lots of twists and turns.

Why only four stars and not five? I was able to guess thekiller and it was quite obvious and I love to be kept guessing but that was just minor and didn’t matter to me because the creep factor kept me turning the pages. I recommend this book for those that love a dark thriller. Serial Killer Lovers will love these two books. I want to thank Netgalley, the publisher, and Dot Hutchison for a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

View all 42 comments. Jun 24, Tulay rated it it was ok. Don’t recommend. This second book isn’t as engaging as the first book. One clever and obnoxious girl and her mother.

Understanding and patient FBI characters. Parts of the story was confusing, found myself re-reading some parts. Won’t be reading the next book in this series. View all 8 comments. I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book, seeing as the first book in the trilogy was so powerful, and I was wondering if this follow up would be a worthy successor. It only took me a few pages, however, to be sucked right in. In this book Priya and her mother have moved to Colorado, trying to find a new life after the brutal slaying of her sister 5 years before, a victim of a serial killer.

It doesn’t take long for the madman to find her there though. He starts stalking her, leaving her flow I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book, seeing as the first book in the trilogy was so powerful, and I was wondering if this follow up would be a worthy successor. He starts stalking her, leaving her flowers that are symbolic of his previous victims. He has been killing girls for 17 years, and still nobody seems to have any clue as to who he is.

So who in her new town is stalking her? There honestly isn’t a lot of choice, Priya’s favourite pastime is playing chess in the park with a group of war veterans.

I loved the characters in this book, from the strong female figures of Priya and her mum, our three FBI agents from “The Butterfly Garden” and I just adored the chess vets. I especially loved the relationship Priya has with Eddison. Who would have thought he had it in him! A truly wonderful book, full of heartwarming relationships.

Highly Recommended. View 2 comments. There’s no Bureau requirement, no order, no generally agreed guideline, nothing official that mandates his presence at the funeral of a girl who killed herself because the seams where she broke the first time were too fragile to stitch together a second time.

While the girls await their day in court with the Gardener, another killer is at large: the Spring Killer, who kills one teen every spring, and has done so for 17 years without exposing himself. His only marker is the flowers that he leaves around each girl’s lifeless body. Eddison may not have a younger sister in blood anymore, but he’s got Priya, a spunky London transplant whose older sister Chavi was one of the Spring Killer’s victims 5 years prior.

Though Priya and her mother have moved across the country to Colorado to escape their past, something is looming on the horizon that has Eddison terrified. These women are the only family he’s got left, and he’ll be damned to lose them. I was so excited when I got approved for an ARC of this sequel on NetGalley, but this book actually took me a few days to get through I only note that because the first book was practically a one-sitting read for me. To be totally honest, Dot Hutchison ripped my heart into so many tiny pieces in The Butterfly Garden that I was a little bit terrified to read more of her writing.

That said, I am so glad that I read this, because I really enjoyed it so much. It took a little bit of time to get into, as the beginning did feel a little slow, but once Dot got into the meat of the story, I ate it up. While the first book alternated POVs between Inara’s memories and Vic Hanoverian’s detective work, this one alternated between Priya’s first-person experiences and Eddison’s third-person investigations and experiences, as well as brief bouts of second-person thoughts from the killer which was AMAZING.

I love the way Dot seamlessly switches perspectives, and she’s mastered each formatting so well, which isn’t something just any author can do. I also was kind of ecstatic to see the trio of agents back again, especially with the focus having shifted to Eddison; it made me wonder, will the third and final book in the trilogy come from Ramirez’s POV? One can only hope, because I’m kind of in love with her character’s sass. Speaking of character development, Priya was such an enjoyable narrator; she and her mother are Indian, but have moved to the States from London, so there’s some really delightful backstory revealed here and there.

Her mother, Deshani, is a firey badass who terrifies everyone she meets except Priya , and she was just so fun to read about. There’s a lovely diverse cast in this book, even more so than in the first one, and there are so many wonderful side characters, especially in the cast of grumpy old veterans that Priya befriends.

As far as action goes, it took a while to pick up, but Dot took her time carefully crafting the back story so that, once the action began, I really felt like she just dove in headfirst. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the kind of book with ridiculous new situations and events every other chapter, but she builds up the sense of dread so beautifully that I felt nauseated more than a few times, just out of apprehension for what was going to happen and who the killer would turn out to be.

I wasn’t shocked by the reveal of the killer, but I honestly don’t think we were intended to be taken off-guard; much like in a good horror film, sometimes the best part is learning who the villain is through little crumbs here and there.

I won’t say anything further to avoid spoiling it for you guys, but seriously, if you enjoyed the first book, please pick this one up, because it’s SO damn good. I would recommend this series to anyone who enjoys thrillers and can handle being kept up at night a little bit, pondering the horrors of mankind.

Content warning: this book contains physical and sexual violence, and may be a difficult read for survivors of abuse or anyone with a weak stomach for abuse. Please read at your own risk and keep yourself healthy and happy. View all 15 comments. May 13, Meredith rated it liked it Shelves: netgalley. At the same time, Priya is being protected by the Quantic0 3, a group of FBI agents on the hunt for the serial k 3.

At the same time, Priya is being protected by the Quantic0 3, a group of FBI agents on the hunt for the serial killer. The Roses of May is the follow up to The Butterfly Garden , which I did not read, so I might have a different perspective than other readers.

I found it to be slow moving and I felt like I was just waiting to get the end for the inevitable to play out. However, Priya was an interesting enough character to keep me invested.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The Roses of May is the second book in Dot Hutchison the collector series.

This one isn’t my favourite I found it to be kind of slow to start , it picked up almost at the end. I liked the slight continued story from book one the the girls from both stories interact really well and fun. I would still recommend this one I’m looking forward to the next. View all 16 comments. When I found out there was a sequel, I was stoked as a stoat.

Priya is a seventeen-year-old girl suffering from grief and depression and an eating disorder, exacerbated by her sister’s gruesome murder several years before.

Now, it looks like her sister’s killer has found her yet again and she’s going to be the next target. The killer is actually pretty creepy and reminded me of a Criminal Minds episode. Unfortunately, the process of catching the killer is hindered by department politics as the policemen’s new supervisor kind of has it in for them and is reluctant to connect previously unrelated cases without solid evidence of Blues Clues-level obviousness.

One of the cops is a family friend of Priya, so he takes this especially hard. Also complicating things is the trial for the Garden, where many of the ex-Butterflies are having trouble adapting to the “real world” and exhibiting obvious post-traumatic stress in the wake of the Gardener’s trial and his one surviving son’s arrest. Even if it hadn’t been connected to one of my favorite mystery-thrillers of all time, I still don’t think I would have been super pleased with it.

There are too many POV swaps, and apart from the killer and his creepy and unusual way of displaying the bodies, there wasn’t much to make it stand apart from the many other serial killer novels out there. I did like Priya a lot, though. I’m a sucker for books that write about damaged women in a way that still portrays them as whole beings who are full of agency.

Priya had a lot of issues but they didn’t define her, and I really liked that. I also liked her relationships with the war veterans she played chess with and Inara, one of the Butterflies who reached out to Priya because of their shared tragedy. I’m not sure I’m as eager to read the third book now, since this one was such a disappointment. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t nearly as good as I was expecting, and felt like it was an entirely different subgenre of mystery-thriller, which makes it extra weird that they’re linked in a series.

View all 4 comments. May 11, Jill McGill rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley. Dot Hutchison has done it again!!! Her imagination is scary, creepy and absolutely brilliant! Also, to make it even creepier Dot Hutchison takes us into the mind of the serial killer allowing the reader the chance to see how he justifies killing each victim. If you enjoy a mystery with suspense, brilliant writing, and a very strong plot, then you will absolutely love this book!

View all 12 comments. May 30, Jan rated it liked it Shelves: series , netgalley. I honestly don’t think I even bothered to read the description-I just had to know what happened to the captive Butterflies! I don’t think I am the only person who felt this way either. So here is where the disappoint comes into play and my expectations fell apart While there are some mentions of the Garden and some of the more memorable ‘Butterflies’, it’s clear the author has moved on.

Book 2 introduces us to a new victim, a new serial killer, and a police procedural story line that just fell flat for me. The pace was soooooo slow, especially in the middle, that even when there were attempts to tie the Butterflies into the plot, it wasn’t enough to move things along. I also had a hard time believing the relationships that these FBI agents had with their victims. How are they able to solve any cases when their time is so wrapped up in checking on them and staying in their lives?

It’s very sweet, but completely unrealistic. I do wonder how this book would have read on it’s own, without having any ties whatsoever to The Butterfly Garden. Would I have enjoyed it more without the disappoint of it not being what I wanted it to be?

View all 7 comments. Sep 20, RedemptionDenied marked it as to-read. May 20, Sarah Joint rated it really liked it. The Butterfly Garden was a book that stuck with me.

It was dark, it was disturbing, it is the kind of book you just don’t simply forget about. Though I remembered the plot well and most of the characters, I re-read it before this one. Not only to refresh my memory, but because I just knew I’d genuinely enjoy it again. I’m glad I did, and would really recommend you start with the first book before this one. Though it adds new main characters, several we met in the first feature as well.

This one The Butterfly Garden was a book that stuck with me. This one is slower to get started than it’s predecessor, and it took me awhile to get into it. The new characters are intensely likeable and the story is interesting. Don’t go into it expecting another Butterfly Garden.

This one also focuses on a serial killer who forms strange attachments to the young girls he kills and has several strong and inspiring female characters, but that’s where the similarities end. While the first book focuses on imprisonment and escape, this one focuses mostly on a young girl named Priya dealing with the tragic death of her older sister. The murderer has never been caught, and the investigation is ongoing.

He strikes the same time every year, and that time is approaching The book also focuses on the “Butterflies” we met in the first They’ve been free for a few months but the media attention still swirls around them and they’re all having difficulty adjusting to the outside world.

The same agents from the first book are still working on the case of the Butterflies, and now bracing for another victim from the murderer who has left the bodies of girls in churches around the county. They have a special affection for Priya, having met her after she found her sister. They’d protect her at any cost, and now that May is creeping closer, they may have to. My review is honest and unbiased. Sep 08, Sarah rated it liked it Shelves: fiction , netgalley , ebook , z This book isn’t really a proper sequel in my opinion.

I was really confused at the start of the book because I couldn’t figure out who each of the characters were and whether they were in book 1 or not; Google wasn’t much help so I just powered on reading in hopes that I would catch on and eventually, I did. I feel like this book would have been a lot better if it was a standalone book and not part of the trilogy.

I felt like the mix of the new story and the old story was so messy and it came off as being really forced. I feel like it didn’t add anything to the book and it didn’t really add much to the either story. Why force it? The plot of this book is intriguing enough without having to drag the butterflies into it.

If Hutchison was set on adding the butterflies then she should have really gone for it. Sprinkling them into the story every so often didn’t work for me. In book 1, I felt like the agents were used as a very smart way to tell the story of the butterfly garden but in book 2 they are very much apart of Priya’s life. The story isn’t told the same way and I felt like that was a negative difference from the first book.

I also kept questioning why the agents were so invested in Priya’s life. I’ve never spoken to real agents or anything but the ones in the book came off as really unprofessional. I kept thinking over and over again “would this really happen? This story was a lot more far-fetched then Book 1 and Book 1 was pretty far-fetched! The only difference was that I was totally engrossed in The Butterfly Garden and didn’t quite question the authenticity until that silly twist at the end.

I thought the serial killer was interesting. I liked his little snippets throughout the book and I thought his motives and backstory was perfectly messed up. It’s painfully obvious who the serial killer is, which was unfortunate but I was glad to get a little bit of a twist with his backstory.

I thought the strongest aspect of this book was the serial killer as I wasn’t really pushed with the main characters. I didn’t understand them and I couldn’t really relate to them. I especially couldn’t understand the relationship dynamics. The characters and their relationships seemed unrealistic and two-dimensional for the most part. The writing was good.

I find Hutchison’s books very easy to read and this book helped me get out of a slump. Her books are also quite addictive. Even though I mentioned quite a few problems that I had with the book, I didn’t want to stop reading it.

I wanted to see how it played out and so that is a really good thing. Would I recommend this? Will I be reading the next book? I hope it is better than this book though. While the blurb suggest that this was a continuation of The Butterfly Garden , in reality it isn’t. Sure, we meet the same agents again, and some of the girls make a rather brief appearance. But the plot revolves around a new case of serial killings and the book is far from being the same sick thriller the first one had been.

It’s a slow read, that is more about several characters dealing with their respective traumata. An introspective story, without many suspenseful moments, which is unusual While the blurb suggest that this was a continuation of The Butterfly Garden , in reality it isn’t.

An introspective story, without many suspenseful moments, which is unusual for a book about a serial killer case. I still like it because of some beautiful writing and its strong-willed characters.

I also liked that we got Priya’s PoV in first person, the agents’ in third person and the killer’s in second person. And the seamless transition between the three. That was cool. But I can see why fans of The Butterfly Garden might be disappointed in this second book. For me it didn’t hold up quite as well on a re-read as the first one in the series did. I mean, I already liked this less than The Butterfly Garden , but that’s okay.

That one is after all one of my favorites. But while I again enjoyed The Roses of May for the characters and the prose, I was disappointed in the denouement which I had mostly forgotten about and also thought that towards the end the author told us a little too often how great these girls and women are. I loved them already. There’s really no need to repeatedly hit me over the head with their awesomeness.

Buddy read with Alla , with whom I already have a date for the third one. I don’t know what to say. This book, I have to state sadly, is absolute trash. The first book in the series, The Butterfly Garden , despite its wildly improbable premise and absolute let-down of an ending, managed to hold the reader’s interest throughout. This one, the second in the series, though much more believable, had me yawning about 20 percent into the book. There is a serial killer who murders young girls, sometimes rapes them too, and arranges them with floral decorations in church Sigh.

There is a serial killer who murders young girls, sometimes rapes them too, and arranges them with floral decorations in churches- in May each year. This has been going on for sixteen years, and somehow it’s all connected to seventeen-year-old Priya Sravasti, whose sister Chavi he had murdered 5 years ago. Well, stated like that, the premise does sound intriguing – but it’s anything but. The whole plot lacks any kind of coherent logic: the psychology is totally wonky: and the “aha! And to bore you further, the entire cast of the first book keeps on paying unnecessary visits into this one.

Avoid it. Mar 11, Crime by the Book rated it liked it. Shelves: zbooks-i-read , jane-made-me-do-it , completed-library-rentals , save-my-pennies.

I think I liked this even more than the first book! It was not as heavy or dark as the first book, but it certainly had it’s twisted aspects. I thought Priya and her mum were a wonderful addition to the already fantastic characters. Their sarcasm and snarky inner monologues had me nodding my head with approval while fighting back giggle fits.

Super excited to dig into the next book! View all 31 comments. Nov 24, Wendy rated it really liked it Shelves: nov , , wom While this was a gripping novel it didn’t have the same shock factor as the 1st in the series, The Butterfly Garden.

This story follows the same detectives as they dive into another unrelated case. However, the characters and the story from The Butterfly Garden interweave slightly with this story. A serial killer is, once again, on the prowl and the detectives have formed a friendship with the sister of one of the murde The Roses Of May is the 2nd book in the “Collector” series by Dot Hutchison. A serial killer is, once again, on the prowl and the detectives have formed a friendship with the sister of one of the murder victims.

This is the chilling tale of Priya who starts finding clues that the killer might be targeting her next. A haunting story that left me wanting more. I look forward to the final book in the trilogy. This review is being written weeks after I finished. I apologize for not having the book fresh in my mind while writing this review.

What I can tell you right off the bat is that I’m giving this book 4. Before I can write a review of this book ‘The Roses of May’, I need to set the tone of the previous book ‘ This review is being written weeks after I finished.

In book 1, we meet two F. She was kidnapped from work by a extremely wealthy man referred to as The Gardner.