Tinfoil Butterfly

A Novel

By: Rachel Eve Moulton

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

The Shining meets About a Boy in this electrifying debut about a troubled young woman and a lonely boy facing their demons in the frozen Black Hills.

Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way.

The town is eerily quiet and Emma takes shelter in a diner, where she stumbles across Earl, a strange little boy in a tinfoil mask who steals her gun before begging her to help him get rid of “George”. As she is pulled deeper into Earl’s bizarre, menacing world, the horrors of Emma’s past creep closer, and she realizes she can’t run forever.

Tinfoil Butterfly is a seductively scary, chilling exploration of evil - how it sneaks in under your skin, flaring up when you least expect it, how it throttles you and won't let go. The beauty of Rachel Eve Moulton's ferocious, harrowing, and surprisingly moving debut is that it teaches us that love can do that too.

©2019 Rachel Eve Moulton (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the definition of malignant from Merriam-Webster.com, © 2019 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.

What a wild ride!

This sucked me in quickly and had me on edge until the end. I adored it!

Awesome except...

This book was awesome! I couldn’t stop listening and found it so interesting. But toward the end it got really confusing as to what was real and what wasn’t and what was happening when. And then it just ended… I don’t know if I was t paying close enough attention or if I just needed to figure out the deeper meaning in all of it but I don’t actually know who was the killer or what event happened when. Maybe I’ll go back and listen to the last 1/4 BC I enjoyed it so much and would like to figure it out?!

Beautiful writing and a dark story

While I’m not sure the ending is everything I hoped or that the themes it touches on were fully explored this book is beautifully written and has a plot that will keep you turning the page. Good book for those able to handle gruesome descriptions and unlikable protagonists.

Not for me

I didn’t get it, probably it is just me. It was just very confusing to follow.

Eh

I really wanted to love this book-I hears great reviews about it and gave it a go. Unfortunately it just didn’t do it for me. The storyline quickly turned from hitch-hiking creepy to I’m into my step brother, and I found a kid who needs help but I just can’t seem to do anything about it? I realized at the end that I just strongly dislike the main character, maybe that was the point, I’m not entirely sure. I don’t think I’d recommend this book to a friend.

Emo, ‘tortured’, adolescent, and unbelievable

Got this recommendation from NPR. I usually like their recommendations, but not this book. The story was a disjointed compilation of every type of horrific, dramatic and unconventional aspect of society. From rape to addiction to murder to child abuse, and that’s just the beginning. Not inherently a bad thing but it was not artfully done. Rather, it gave off the feel that the author wanted to shock the audience, rather than weave a story. Also, I was not a fan of the reader’s voice. Listen to the sample before you commit.