"A Land Remembered" and its Terrible Ending!!!!!!

I read this book in a span of ten days while only reading it five of those days. The reason I finished this book so fast was because it was very exciting and I could not put it down. Tobias and company were making money, buying land, and living together as one happy family. They brought in Skillet, Frog, and Bonzo to help with the cattle and they too became part of the family. Zech got married to a red-headed women named Glenda and they had a son named Solomon, or "Sol" for short. I was about 80% done with the book and was eager to find out how the author would close the book and leave everyone in happy spirits. Well when I got to the end, I was very angry at the way the book ended.

Everyone died!!!! The family began to split apart because everyone had tragic accidents and began to drop like flies. Bonzo died from an illness. Emma had a heart attack. Tobias was ill and then got hypothermia from trying to save his orange trees from the freezing weather. Skillet did not die but he moved out and went to live with his wife and kids (which is understandable but still very sad). Glenda died from a bull ramming her in the stomach with his horns. Frog also died from the bull but he was older and didn't have much time left anyways. Zech was devastated over Glenda and he ended up drowning (it was not suicide, however, I have my doubts). Sol was alone at 15 years old and ended up moving to the city to get away from the house and all the death that happened there. He ended up meeting a very nice girl named Bonnie and even though he loved her, they never got married because Zech told Sol in anger never to marry, because once you do and they die it is the worst feeling in the world. Right before they were about to get married, she died in a hurricane!!!!! I completely forgot about Tawanda dying while giving birth to her second child that Zech again was the father of. The book ended with Sol making a lot of poor decisions of selling the land that Tobias and Zech worked so hard for and having them build hotels and cities from and destroying the environment. Sol and Toby were not friends anymore until the very end when Sol apologized for all he had done. The book ended with Sol dying of old age and a lifetime of regrets over what he had done in his life. However, you can't put all the blame on him because he was alone at the age of 15 with no parents or family because everyone died in the worst possible ways!!! I did not want to read the last 30 pages of the book because I was so heartbroken over what had happened to the MacIveys that I just wanted the book to end!

Having said that, the first 350 pages were still very good and I enjoyed the book, even though everyone died I was still happy to read to the book because it was a very good book with lots of interesting things happening throughout Tobias, Zech, and Sol's lifetime.