yo thomas covenant fucked me up too
the worst part is like...it comes totally out of left field. like donaldson started writing the book and then was like, 'I need to make this guy an anti-hero'
like it normalizes/reproduces the idea that people who do cold-blooded shit like that aren't predators. shit's weird and gross
goodkind's worse.
like the covenant thing was gross and shitty and you're just supposed to be uncomfortable reading the rest of the book I think (at least I was). then the cash grab happened and Donaldson wrote 8 more books or w/e
not only is goodkind just like extremely self-aware fash and 'muh asiatic hordes', but he's also totally oblivious of his sub fetish somehow
neither are good, but goodkind's in a league of his own