Not even a little. SoT is basically the awkward love child of Atlas Shrugged and The Wheel of Time series. Goodkind shamelessly rips them off so much that Robert Jordan and Ayn Rand practically deserve a writing credit. I actually like both Atlas Shrugged and The Wheel of Time and I found the series practically unreadable. Every book is about how Richard Rahl, Goodkind's protagonist, is basically the perfect specimen of human power and will, and overcomes seemingly impossible odds through unearned and low-effort deus ex machina powers.

This is to say nothing about Goodkind's treatment of women in his books. I'm hardly a bleeding hearted feminist, but Goodkind challenges that, not because he writes women in a deft and nuanced way, but because basically every woman in the series seems to exist to serve Goodkind's BDSM/rape fantasies that it gets actively uncomfortable to read at times.

There's so much more, but to leave you with one of my favorite moments from the series that illustrates just how great a shitbag Richard is and how disconnected Goodkind is from any sort of normative morality in a series all about morality, in Book 1 Richard is captured by bad guys. He's then paraded before one of the bad guy's allies and her court, including her 7 year old daughter. Princess Minibitch mocks Richard for being in chains and sticks her tongue out at him. Richard responds to this by kicking Minibitch in the face, shattering her jaw and severing her tongue. Richard's jailer, a hot woman in skintight red leather, responds to this by taking Richard away and having sex with him.