Don't get me wrong, the writing and narration were also excellent, but I didn't fall into a swoon over it like I did Nightwoods, which I just finished. Nightwoods was just more captivating than this one. I've seen Cold Mountain several times but never read it. I'm looking forward to listening to that next. I love these stories and the way they're written.

Beautifully written, romantic, melancholy--like life. I loved every word of this book. The narration was the best I've ever heard. I don't give this praise lightly.

What a beautiful & tragic story. The imagery is wonderful. I felt like I was hiking the hills of NC. Will Patton was the perfect choice to narrate. Highly recommend!

This novel is extraordinary and beautifully written. No other words are needed. Will Patton's narration is perfect.

I felt as if I were being told this story by the person who lived it. The voice and inflection of the performer (Will Patton) was spot on. I'm sure that my overall enjoyment of the book was thus enhanced ten fold, more than if I'd read it myself. In general, I love historical novels because they shed light on how things really were in past times, far better than any history book alone could do, and "Thirteen Moons is one of the best I've ever experienced.

Cannot think of one.

Everything. As I said, his voice was perfect for the character and his inflection made the telling totally believable.

I would love to sit down with Will himself and pick his brain for memories not told in the book and have him show, and tell me about items he'd collected through his life. If I were a braver person I'd love to do the same with Feather Stone.

If you'd like to get an inkling of what the Eastern Native Americans Tribes, (particularly the Cherokee,) were facing in the early 1800s, this book will deliver that, plus so much more. It is definitely NOT your typical "Western Novel" about Cowboys and Indians"

This was a gorgeous, involving story, and Will Patton's virtuoso performance made me glad I listened instead of read it.

I read COLD MOUNTAIN when it came out, and enjoyed it enough to pass it along to my dad. He was born and reared in the Virginia/West Virginia Appalachians and enjoyed the setting more than the story, I think. I saw the movie as well, and interestingly enough, preferred the book's ending to the movie's. THIRTEEN MOONS shares the location setting, but takes it back to pre-Civil War. Will Cooper; orphaned and abandoned as a child, adopted by a clan of Cherokee and eventually becoming its leader, leads quite an extraordinary life, to hear him tell it. I found Will to be an unreliable, yet sympathetic narrator of his life story, given, as old men will be, to braggadocio and bravado.

THIRTEEN MOONS is written in the same vein, but on a much lesser scale than, McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE or Phillip Meyer's THE SON. The plot is not nearly as involved, nor the scope as encompassing. It was a very good read (listen actually, since I got it through Audible), but I'd prefer THE SON.

I could listen to Will Patton read the phone book; he was extraordinary in THE SON.

Gives us a glimpse of a time and place that may have been and is no more.

This book is beautifully written, breathtakingly poignant, and a wonderful world I like to escape to time and again. Will Patton's narration is superb.

I loved the narrator's cadence and voice. Great story and lots of mountain lore and adventure. Clair however was mysteriously unexplained...