The Butterfly Girl 2 - The End

 RATING:OKAY

SPOILERS!!!

I have to say that I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the first one in the series. I liked the part about Celia even though her family life and what she is living as a street girl is very, very hard. However, I love her personality, her maturity albeit her age, and her determination to protect her sister from their stepfather.

In this book Naomi is somehow all over the place. She and Jerome fall out, and I think that the reasons why she wants to pursue her plan to find a sister whose name she doesn't even know is over the top. And I find her behaviour towards Celia iffy. Despite my misgivings, Naomi discovers more about the past. She and her sister were in an orphanage after their parents died, and they disappeared from the place. Her sister's name is Sarah, and Naomi discovers that their abduction is conected to the disappearance of many migrants and the street girls. And all this leads her to Judge Thurman, and his son, Wesley, and Naomi knows that Wesley was her kidnapper.

Naomi realises that Celia knows about the house where the kidnapper takes the girls, but Celia has gone missing. She has been kidnapped as she wrongly assumed that a man who she has seen hanging about was an undercover police. Celia is taken to the house where Sarah is. Celia is resourceful, and she and Sarah want to escape, and Celia feeds Wesley rat poison, and he gets sick. Then Naomi finds the house after discovering a map that Celia has hidden in the book about butterflies. Naomi confrons the kidnapper and gets injured in the process, and in the end he is arrested.

At the end of the book we learn that Naomi and Jerome are now Celia's foster parents, which they find difficult as Celia is used to going and coming as she likes. Celia's stepfather is now in prison after she went to her teacher to tell her about Laryssa being raped by the man. Alyssa is now with foster parents and want to adopt her. And Rich, Celia's friend, is now staying on a horse farm where he is learning to look after horses. And Sarah is recovering from the traumas of all the years she has been kidnapped.