Forgiveness ... An elusive emotion at best. The potential giver holds all the weight, and quite weighty it is. A messy uncompromising, unrelenting emotion; wrapped up in endless layers, all demanding your attention. Guilt, sorrow, pain, and most profoundly fear. Catherine Anderson draws you deep into this maelstrom with her sensitive, embracing novel Comanche Moon. She asks for a most disconcerting extraction from her readers̶ask yourself, with candid raw honesty, “Who is right? Who is wrong?, Are the dictates of black and white truly definitive? Is your enemy evil?, or Are they merely your reflection?”

Comanche Moon communicates this incredible complex emotion with such delicate, fragile beauty. It builds on a timeless and ceaseless cycle of war and hate. The seemingly never ending exacting of retribution for all involved. The cycle never runs out. The perfect example of Zeno’s Paradox.
Until ... That single defining moment when someone has the immense courage to unreservedly, innocently, irreproachably offer forgiveness. The dawning of recognition that all the players have been beaten and battered, and no one can win this game. The only victory to be had is through the mastery of letting go. Ending the cycle of hate, and filling the void with it’s opposition ... Love. (4+)