- Audience-Alienating Premise: The book was self-published because no publisher at the time wanted to publish a book about talking badgersnote . Nevertheless, the book has its fans.
- Complete Monster: Kronos desires to be leader of his large group of Cilgywn forest badgers, but only because he likes ruling over others. Kronos makes friends easily and is liked by many, but it's all an act as he needs support to get to the top of the council. Kronos also has a god complex, and he convinced his brother Zoilos that he'd one day be a god. Kronos weeds out any badger that gets in his way of his goal. He is involved with the deaths of over four badgers, with two being leaders, but he tries to make the deaths seem accidental: He "accidentally" trips Buckwheat into a river, has both Dandelion and an entire family of foxes killed while making it was a skirmish, and then has a boulder crush the current leader Eldon—while there were cubs around. Kronos ends up splitting the badgers into two groups, but he keeps his deserters in line by force. Those who try to escape are captured and tortured to death by Kronos and Zoilos. Oftentimes, even those that just behave in ways that Kronos dislikes are tortured and killed by his underling Vulcan.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The book is about a large group of badgers escaping genocide by badger cullings. It's a long physically, emotionally, and spirituality tiring quest trying to escape the humans. The Cold Moons also features some Family-Unfriendly Death and Family-Unfriendly Violence, such as badgers being killed by cullers (either by gas, dogs, or bullets), badgers murdering one another, and a badger who was mauled by hunting dogs years ago and survived with various deformities.
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