Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

I've found that Goodkind did have a talent for creating characters, which is what drew me in as a middle schooler--but all the worldbuilding around them is pretty trash.

Like, I'm not entirely against magical femdom pain warriors...hell, I'm a fan of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series with its holy courtesans. But there's a right way to do it and a wrong way, and he chose the wrong way.

And like you said using Jordan as an example, he was also a very blatant thief of things he thinks are cool (like Jordan's stuff), and was pretty up his own butt about his philosophies--acting like they're smart and well-thought-out without actually showing any glimmer of understanding of how real people work.