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    Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel
    Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel
    Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel

    Written by Rachel Eve Moulton

    Narrated by Jess Nahikian

    3.5/5

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781978691032
    Author

    Rachel Eve Moulton

    Rachel Eve Moulton earned her BA from Antioch College and her MFA in fiction from Emerson College. Her work has appeared in The Beacon Street Review, Bellowing Ark, Chicago Quarterly Review, and The Bryant Literary Review, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

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    • 5/5
      This audiobook culminates by blurring lines of mental illness, abuse and love into a melting pot of hardened emotions that carry you thru the story in disbelief. The characters are all damaged and their attempts at finding/holding onto love manifest in awkward,
      un-natural and brutal experiences that increase the level of devastating realities. This was an awesome story was brought to life by one of the best talented female narrators. Excellent storytelling by both narrator and author, I still feel the affects of this story, it's been hours later since I finished it.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Holy crap this book was freaking amazing!! Couldn’t put it down!!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Tinfoil Butterfly, I went into this blind. Needing something to listen to that would hold my attention and last longer than an hour. I didn’t read the blurb or check reviews.

      With that being said, this story is haunting, twisted, and rather beautiful.

      Emma is the main character and she is so flawed, angry, and we meet her hitchhiking. Her driver is less than a shitty person, and she narrowly escapes.

      Enter Earl, a young child raised up in the Black Hills, this wild soul tied so deeply with the land that he’s certain he can never leave.

      I don’t want to ruin the book, so I’ll stop with that vague summary. It’s certainly dark and I would consider it “triggering” self harm, etc. but I found it stunning, heartbreaking, and sinister.

      Don’t let the evil in.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is so beautifully written and the narration really brings it to life. My only disappointment is that the story didn’t go on longer

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I’m going to be really honest the ending really threw me off but it really was a good listen. The narrator did an excellent job. The plot was fine, It’s far more character focused than I expected which was fine, it’s really not much of a thriller though which was also okay! I’m still really not sure how to feel about the end though it felt a bit abrupt although I think it does fit with the story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book...right up until the ending. It did not end the way that I wanted it to. I was so bothered by it that I explained the entire complex, intriguing story to my husband just so I could tell him the ending and make him as frustrated as I was.
      However, as I was finishing up my synopsis of the story I realized that the ending was exactly right.
    • 4/5
      This was an intriguing novel that was not exactly what I was expecting from the description, but by the time I realized that, the story had already sucked me in and I had to find out more about Emma and why she seemed to be on her own with a horrid scar on her stomach from pulling out her own stitches. It's not clear at first why Emma so desperately wants to get to the Badlands or what it has to do with her past, but she is obviously willing to risk her life to make it there. When she ends up having to run from the man who promised to take her there, she finds herself in a deserted ghost town where she meets a troubled child with a past even more tragic than her own. With a blizzard on the way and a deranged man after her, Emma's desire to live awakens in ways she never thought possible.
      I received an advance copy for review.
    • 4/5
      I'm a little conflicted about this book because, overall, I found it extremely good, bleak as hell (that's a compliment, by the way), and very well written.

      I have to say (without spoiling anything), that I had two issues with the back end of the book. The first is the dumb decision that occurred with the last visit to the underground area that I won't say any more about (you'll know it when you get there). No amount of justification will convince me that the decision chosen would have ever been made by any person with a sliver of intelligence.

      And the second was, Moulton drew out the ending far longer than she should have, in my opinion. All the dramatic tension was gone, but she kept writing...

      Regardless, the four stars is for the trip up to that point, and for the fact that, even while being delivered a bit of a mess toward the end, the author did, at least, write it really well.

      Will I read anything else my Rachel Eve Moulton? Hell yes. I truly believe she's an author to watch.
    • 4/5
      I'm really glad I didn't start reading this before bedtime because this story got intense real fast. A teenage girl hitchhiking to the Badlands in South Dakota gets herself out of one messy situation and lands in an even worse one. She runs out of gas in a deserted old mining town far up the mountain with a blizzard on the way. Then she discovers the place isn't quite deserted. I'm not going to say anymore. I didn't know anything about this going in, and I think that's for the best. Moulton's writing is compelling--I finished this in two days--and parts are downright terrifying, while other parts are simply heartbreaking. A nice discovery, courtesy of the Shirley Jackson Award shortlist.
    • 4/5
      Thanks to NetGalley for my ARC.Moulton writes beautifully. Moulton writes beautifully about wildly terrible and violent things. Tinfoil is a full on exploration of what is evil on evil acts and evil motives and on violence and horror and what really is horrific. Tinfoil Butterfly unwinds the story of Emma, a hitchhiker, who herself is trying to outrun violence in her own past who after a particularly violent run in with a driver she encounters finds herself trapped in a ghost-town where she meets Earl a strange child who wears the novel's titular Tinfoil mask. Things only get worse and more troubling from here. The story absurdly unwinds as Emma tries to care for Earl and how the both of them must live in the violent world that they find themselves in and that to find peace the must encounter and live with and engage in increasingly violent acts in order to find peace. TInfoil Butterfly is beautiful and shocking and troubling. It explores themes of love and regret and abuse and loss and evil and violence and how we all deal with these things when our lives are entangled with others whose lives are full of these things as well. A worthwhile read for those who are ready to come to grips with reading passages of intense violence.