RaveThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn his accessible history narrative Blood Moon, author John Sedgwick pulls no punches in depicting the Cherokees’ forced migration, and the book’s accounts of displacement, dispossession and disease make wrenching reading ... But Blood Moon places the tragic event in a context that’s more complex than many readers may realize, revealing how internal divisions within the Cherokee Nation may have made a bad situation worse ... Blood Moon unfolds as a sweeping intergenerational saga that views the devastation of a people from the perspective of two families ... As a century-spanning history book, Blood Moon is unusually fast-paced and compelling, at times reading more like one of Bernard Cornwell’s action-packed period novels rather than an academic tome. Sedgwick seems most vested when his accounts hinge on personalities or battles, but becomes less focused and authoritative when describing larger, less tangible socioeconomic forces ... Few tragedies prove as readable.
