I thought the book was very well written and I found it engaging enough to continue. However ultimately it just wasn’t for me. I think there is a readership for this story, though, and I hope that it’s successful enough to see a second installment.

Samson and his three best friends live in Charleston when the first shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter. Too young to really understand what slavery and the coming war are all about, the Fearless Four try to do what they can to help out their community.

Samson, and his friends, one of whom is the son of a freedman and another a daughter of a prominent family, uncover a plot to betray the south to the northern army.

The Fearless Four are all so sincere that you can't help but root for them and enjoy their rather lighthearted (for war time) adventures around the Lowcountry. Even though this book is for a much younger audience, I enjoyed the fresh, rather innocent take on the start of the civil war and life in the antebellum south.