A great book ... with an awful ending.

So ..... I'm new to this whole reading for pleasure thing, and let's be honest - I'm not really reading.
My reading is pretty much consumed with scientific journals.

However for the last year and 1/2 I've been doing books on tape. I find my books by those top rated in Amazon, or that I hear talked about. Once in awhile I'll pick something off the shelf at the library when I don't already have something requested and waiting. Mostly non-fiction stuff. Once in a while I do fiction, and that is the reason for my blog today.

Yesterday I finished "The story of Edgar Sawtelle"
http://www.edgarsawtelle.com/

This book is fairly long ... 18 discs ... the author did an amazing job of drawing me into the character and the dogs. It was the type of book I didn't want to get out of the car. I would sit another minute at work, and eat in my car during lunch. It was a wonderful story, until ...
Last night I finished the book. The last few pages were awful. Without spoiling it for everyone ... the bad guys came out the winners.
I'm very disturbed. The book was easily a 5 star for me, until the horrible ending. I know in life not everything works out - but I'm not sure how I feel about investing so much in a story like this. I feel betrayed by the author.
Fiction is a crap shoot ... you are a puppet in the authors hand. They coerce you down the road, and then push you off the cliff!