The Real Story

What made the experience of listening to Blood Moon the most enjoyable?

Not much

Who was your favorite character and why?

This is a true story so these were real people not just characters as you say. I only liked the people who really tried to help the Indians. Not those who were greedy & only wanted money & fame for pretending to help them.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Fred Sanders?

No, his voice was raspy sounding & annoyed me so much so that I had to shut off the tablet to rest my head as it gave me a headache.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Every thing that was said about the whites taking the land from the Indians mad me sick & the way the Cherokee were treated. I am totally disgusted with my people who treated these proud tribes with such disregard & beat them & killed them by taking their land & hunting grounds from them & bringing death & hunger & disease to them.

Any additional comments?

I have more empathy for the Indians than I used to after hearing all the things they had to had live through or should I say died for. I am 1/4 Cherokee. I am appalled at what they went through. People can be so cruel & inhumane to other people & animals. I am ashamed for my white ancestors who did this to the first people who were here first before the whites came & destroyed their freedoms.

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Well Written

This book takes a complex subject in American history and breaks it down to an understandable narrative. No one is nessisarily the "bad guy", but it does last out everyones flaws who were involved.

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Heartbreaking

I am of Cherokee decent and am currently searching for information about my heritage. All records were burned and I have, miraculously, one remaining picture of my Native Great Grandmother because of the hate that still runs deeply from, sadly, my own relations, mostly of English ancestry. How is it that people are still so consumed with judgement in an age when we should be most enlightened?
Beautifully written, this book/audiobook is a sad testament of the damage that hate, ignorance and ego-driven greed can cause. I hope we will learn from the history shared here and chose better for our present times.

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A unique perspective on American history

This book stands alone. Every other narrative of the trail of tears and of the civil war follows the same predictable well known paths. If all history was this good we would all be historians. Amazing.

Fascinating

Very informative and fascinating to hear this side of history. The Cherokee are an amazing people to learn about.

Indian all good, white man all bad.

I have hundreds of history books. This book is just terrible old narrative of some humans are inherently bad, some are inherently good. I think that is called racism. I rarely delete a book before finishing.

Great

If you want to truly learn the history of our cherokee nation, this book is the place to start.

Great book

I found this book very interesting the story was great. I highly recommend it there were several items that I didn’t know about with the Cherokee people

Heading Optional?(make up your mind)

The book was good. Narration was hard to push through but I enjoyed it overall.

Remarkable and very well researched book!

I originally bought this book for my Scout Troop & a 3-day canoe camping trip in NW Georgia. I read “Thunder in the Mountains” about Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce Indians of the Pacific NW. This was a fascinating read. So, I wanted to share with the Scouts some cool Indian stories about the Indians in Georgia.
And, I feel very confident that “Blood Moon” achieved the excitement I was searching for.

The book was long, but worth it. I was hoping for a more happy ending for the “good guys” and was a little disappointed towards the end. However, the author did a nice job ending on a happy note about the future of the Cherokee Nation.