a realization

[coraa]

One of the things that keeps me reading Diane Duane's Young Wizard books, even though the quality varies some after the (excellent) first couple, is my profound hunger for books featuring protagonists who are responsible and kind.

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[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late to the party, but: Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil both fit. In the first, the heroine slowly grows into responsibility, until at the end she's willing to die if that's the responsible thing to do; in the second, she's accepted her responsibilities, and the plot is largely the fault of a colleague who hasn't. And in both books, many of the characters are wonderfully kind.