Will Patton did an awesome job reading this book - it really made it feel like it was an autobiography. Well done!

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Thirteen Moons tell the story of one man's life - Will Cooper. Orphaned while still a boy, he was sold as a "bound boy", and became the sole shopkeep at a remote trading post on the edge of Cherokee lands. He learns Cherokee and is adopted into the family of Bear, a local Cherokee chief. He spends the rest of his life with one foot in the white world and one in the Cherokee world. He falls in love with the "daughter" of a local wealthy man who is partially Cherokee. He even teaches himself the law, which serves him in good stead when he works actively against the U.S. government to prevent HIS people from having to be relocated along with the rest of the Cherokee to territory out west (the Trail of Tears).

I'll be honest. This story rambles. But the writing style and the storytelling are so beautiful that for the most part I didn't mind the ramble at all, and just sat back to enjoy the journey. This story has a way of bringing you to tears one minute (when Will's beloved horse is stolen and injured my eyes started to water) and laughter the next (the negotiations for the duel that followed). This is especially true if you have a dry sense of humor like me.

Ironically, similar to the author's previous book Cold Mountain, this story also ends with a bang. That's not a spoiler though. You'll have to read the book to find out what I'm talking about :-)

The audio version of this book is wonderfully narrated by Will Patton, with just the right atmospheric music used at the transition points.

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