When did the Guardian article come out? Online it is tagged for the 11th...
(The spike started the 9th.)
Might be a reflection of the original Facebook outing post or it might be that word of mouth on the book is getting out.
I found 80 reviews at Amazon: 78 give it five stars, 1 four stars, the last one star.
Sales may now be going beyond the hard core fans expected to buy anything in the series.
Interesting experiment and getting more interesting daily.
Especially with reviews like this:
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I almost didn't buy this book. Although Terry Goodkind is one of my favorite authors I found his last couple books disappointing, so I started it with low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. This book was impossible to put down. The story was fast moving, gripping and masterfully written. Mr. Goodkind will have you transported inside the Wizard's Keep while you are reading the story. I feel it is his best effort since Faith of the Fallen. It also gave we SOT series fans a better understanding of how the sword came to be and the creation of the Confessors. If this is an example of what he can do freed from the constraints of a publishing house then I hope the rest of his offerings come in the same format. I can't wait for his next book!
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Still don't know why or how this book ended up self-pub but the question seems to be looming ever larger.