Granny Dan by Danielle Steel

So this past week I read the book "Granny Dan" by Danielle Steel. It is about a young Russian girl who is sent to a ballet school when her mom dies and she is left to live with her dad and four brothers. She becomes one of the best ballerinas in Russia but then becomes severely ill with the influenza. She is invited to stay at the Royal family's guest house to recuperate. While there she falls in love with her doctor, who in turn falls in love with her. However, he is unhappily married and two children and can't just walk away. And she has dedicated her life to ballet and doesn't want to just give it up. The doctor tries to convince his wife to a divorce but she won't. So a couple years go by and they still can't be together. They see each other every now and then. Then a revolution breaks out and the ballerina breaks her ankle. The doctor convinces her to go to Vermont with him to start a new life together. He stays with the Royal family and moves around with them while they try to find a safe place to stay. He sends the ballerina to Vermont to stay with his cousin and promises her he will follow shortly. Well he ends up getting stuck with the family and they all get executed including him. All her brothers and her father were killed in the war and she can no longer dance because of her ankle. So she stays in Vermont and marries the doctor's cousin and has a daughter. She is forced to forget everything from her past to raise her new family with a husband she doesn't truly love. How sad is that? I was so disappointed when I finished to book. Couldn't she have at least had some sort of happy ending. I know that is always what happens in books, but when you read a story where two people love each other so much and have to work so hard just to be together and then it all ends tragically with neither ever getting what they truly wanted, I just can't stand that kind of story. The rest of it was good but the ending just totally ruined it for me. I have read a lot of love stories and I love them, even if not everything works out, but I hate it when absolutely nothing works out and the main character loses everything. I don't recommend reading it unless you want to cry and be disappointed.