That's a lot of angry tags for such a short book. (Just Necessary Women as a stand alone audiobook.) 

Damn train wrecky accident. I accidentally hit the "borrow" button when I was looking at this book instead of adding it to my list so I could look into it later. So, because it took up one of my borrow slots for the month I listened to it. It's 20 minutes, what's the worst that could happen? 

Welp.

Graphic enough incest, cannibalism, and an unsurprisingly fucked in the head little girl. 

Enough said.

Seriously, fuck everything. I need to take another shower. 

I'm really into this book, but writing this kind of storyline in a romance requires a deft hand and I'm not convinced Kat Martin is doing that great a job of it yet. Six years ago the hero Ben's daughter, Molly, was kidnapped from in front of their home. Now, Autumn, the heroine, has been dreaming of her and thinks she's alive. It is a really serious story. So it's very jarring and awkward to go right from a discussion of Molly to Ben getting aroused and hard by Autumn. In a story like this I feel like that sort of thing needs to be toned way the hell down, or completely separated from the more serious aspects of the story. 

Also, I really don't understand where the summit enters into this. 

But I'm literally listening to a 13-year-old character talking about needing to be fucked and whatever else drugged up bullshit she's babbling about for I don't even know how long now and just need to point out again how there's been nothing about the fucking mystery for a long time. If you can even call it that since it seems to be completely forgotten in all this bullshit.

You people really do want me to burn it all to the ground, don't you?

69.2%

Dammit.

I'm glad this is the last Gillian Flynn novel I haven't read. Though I wish I read/listened to it before Dark Places, which I actually didn't mind. Flynn has an aptitude for writing seriously fucked up and/or unlikable characters. They're all fucked up, it's likable ones that are a rarity with her. In fact, I think the only somewhat likable character of hers was Libby in Dark Places.

But, really, does everything have to be so seriously fucked in her novels? I don't know. I don't want to complain about that too much because there is a somewhat enjoyable aspect to it when it's done right (Dark Places, Amy's POV of Gone Girl) but not when it's tedious and/or just for the sake of being ~OMG so out there (Nick's POV of Gone Girl, Sharp Objects).

Really, though, if I have to hear one more God damn thing about 13-year-old little kids doing nasty, depraved, whoreish shit I swear to fucking Christ I'm going to punch a kitten. We've heard more about how disgusting Camille was at 13 than we have about whatever the damn thriller part of this book is supposed to be. Nearly 70% and we're no further along in that part of the story than when the book started. But I sure as shit know every little bit of her fast-ass little 13-year-old self getting passed around between four high-school guys at some party.

*cue my fucking bile*

Then there's her 13-year-old sister who's following in her footsteps. We've heard a lot about that, too.

And I thought the 15-year-old's part of Dark Places was bad enough. I look back on that storyline almost fondly right now.

Hell, at least I had some sort of warning since I knew I was listening to a Gillian Flynn novel. And this book doesn't have the absolute audacity to be parading itself around as a "romance" with that kind of depravity in it. Looking right the hell at you there, Victoria Dahl. (Shit, that book was actually much worse. Oh, stay tuned for that review because it WILL happen. Eventually.)

/rage

(Who am I kidding? I'm going to hit play and be raging full-steam again because Camille's dumb ass just got in the car to PARTY WITH FUCKING 13 YEAR OLDS. I FUCKING CANNOT.)

P.S. – oh, my God, enough with the first person, Flynn! Damn.

ETA: Yep, she's doing Oxy and X with the children right now. On top of drinking ALL the things. Does Flynn even know what a child is? Yes, because Camille KEEPS FUCKING POINTING OUT THAT THEY'RE GOD DAMN CHILDREN. Fucking makes me sick there are people actually okay with all this shit in real life. Where is a motherfucking kitten when you need one . . . ? Better yet, who can make Battle Royale a reality?

Particularly when we don't get to see justice. And there were so many in this book. It was 568 pages and there was really no forward movement on the story until around page 300. And even then the resolution was left to the last 20 pages. All those words and I didn't get to see anything I wanted to see, and yet she still shoved in that bit of ~it continues~ at the very end. Frankly, if you're writing a book about devil worship and are already at 568, why not go the extra 98 pages? That would have left a lot of room to have a more satisfying climax and wrap-up. At least I really liked the hero and heroine, though there were some things I could do without.