Blood Brothers in Louisbourg by Philip Roy is a young adult historical fiction novel that features two male characters. Fifteen year old student Jacques is travelling to Louisbourg with his military-minded father. Jacques wants nothing more than to read Voltaire and play his music. His officer father wants Jacques to become a man and a soldier fighting for the French in Cape Breton's military fortress. The other main character is a Mi'kmaw youth named Two-feathers. This odd name represents the heritage of his Mi'kmaw mother and French military father. Jacques narrates his own story in the first-person. For some unknown reason the author distances the reader from Two-feathers by having his story told in the third-person. Two-feathers is the idealized and romanticized character who loves nature, holds spiritual beliefs and is at home in the forest. Two-feathers is searching for the French father he has never met and finds ways of entering fortress Louisbourg without alarming the sentries. The two characters never meet but both are attracted to a French beauty named Celestine. During this story set in 1744, the two youths manage to make their way despite the ensuing war between the French and English. Author Philip Roy explains the two main characters in this YouTube video: http://youtu.be/q-DAO62VJhY