What are your good books with bad endings?

[Emmalita]

Zirza enjoyed Laura McHugh's What's Done in the Darkness until the last bit. "The story, which had been flowing along nicely, suddenly dials it up to 100 for a few pages before wiping its hands on its apron and asking 'so what else is happening?'"

https://cannonballread.com/2022/07/wh...

[Cait]

A Light in the Ruins! PERFECT til the very last chapter D :

[Emmalita]

Cait wrote: "A Light in the Ruins! PERFECT til the very last chapter D :"

I don’t know that one. I think I’ve erased all the books that betrayed me at the end from my brain. But I do remember the ones I started hating a few pages in.

[Cait]

I wish I had your memory/unmemory!

[Emmalita]

Cait wrote: "I wish I had your memory/unmemory!" My brain is essentially an etch-a-sketch.