You grew up on epic stories where relatable heroes struggled against the darkness, where hope inspired courage and the choice to keep fighting for goodness, and where victory came with a cost but the sacrifice was always worth it. But now it’s like the well of those stories has run dry, and your choices for new reads are on two ends of the spectrum: books that are clean but cheesy with unrealistically good characters…or books that are exciting but depressing and morally gray, where evil is either celebrated or undefeatable. Where’s the elusive third option?

 

Light defeats darkness. So should our stories.