Sorry, not going to spend more time on this. To the donate pile it goes.

The casual animal and human cruelty is not my bag, but the played up sexist religious town culture (it's basically puritan Salem but swap out Jesus for Demeter and witch hunts for human sacrifices) combined with the intense "not like other girls" energy of the main character is also a huge turnoff. I've read too many books with this backstory, and I don't get the sense that I'm going to find anything else I particularly like in this story and these characters. 

Not for me, but maybe for a different reader. The adiobook narrator is doing a good job.