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    The Fort
    The Fort
    The Fort
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Fort

    Written by Aric Davis

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    During the waning summer days of 1987, a deranged Vietnam vet stalks Grand Rapids, Michigan, abducting and murdering nameless victims from the streets, leaving no leads for police. That is, until he picks up sixteen-year-old Molly. From their treehouse fort in the woods, three neighborhood boys spy the killer holding a gun to Molly’s back. They go to the police—only to have their story disregarded. But the boys know evil lives in their midst. A growing sense of honor and urgency forces the boys to take action—to find Molly, to protect themselves, to stand guard for the last long days of summer.

    At turns heartbreaking and breathtakingly thrilling, The Fort perfectly renders a coming-of-age story in the 1980s, in those final days of childhood independence, discovery, and paradise lost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2013
    ISBN9781469294896
    The Fort
    Author

    Aric Davis

    Aric Davis is married with one daughter and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked for sixteen years as a body piercer. He now writes full time. He likes weather cold enough to need a sweatshirt but not a coat and friends who wear their hearts on their sleeves. In addition to reading and writing, he also enjoys roller coasters, hockey, punk rock, and a good cigar. Davis is the author of eight previous books: From Ashes Rise: A Novel of Michigan, Nickel Plated, A Good and Useful Hurt, The Black Death: A Dead Man Novella, Rough Men, Breaking Point, The Fort, and Tunnel Vision.

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    • 4/5
      This is my first time reading a book by this author and I really enjoyed it. I've already found a couple more by this author I've added to my TBR list.

      In the beginning I thought of Stephen King's book Stand by Me. While this book is a coming of age experience by the end of the book that comparison while still relevant could be interpreted as insulting. Mr. King and this author are in different writing leagues, so keep that in mind before interpreting harshly.

      This is a quick read or quick listen type story. I definitely dont think it was intended to be the sort of novel where you go deep with the characters and get all wrapped up in who they are, why they do what they do, etc. The book isn't long enough for all that. It's just long enough to give you the amount of info and circumstances of characters to appreciate who they are in a more superficial way. Every now and then you would get some depth of character thrown in to keep it interesting, maybe.

      The story flowed well enough, and I enjoyed the characters of the three boys. I also enjoyed the detectives character based upon those before mentioned thrown in depths of character. Becca and Tim's parents definitely needed some rework as the slap in the head missed its mark. Lots of evidence pointing towards some editing and page filling going on I believe. Some of the added scenes (graphic children images found for example) seemed like afterthought filler instead of valued content. Like in high school or even some college where a paper must total a certain page count. You find yourself throwing in little known facts to get that desired page number because you've already overloaded it with paragraphs starts/stops. It almost felt like the author was trying to reach some preset number of pages and was struggling to achieve that.

      Definitely interested in checking out these other two books by this author I found and remain optimistic. This is achieved by being 100% aware of what I intend to read, the preset expectations based on gained knowledge and doing so as a quick read entertainment piece only. Like not expecting Stand by Me when Reading The Fort because the two authors are in completely different leagues. Stephen King plays for the yearly National Championship Team and the other is still playing games in the minors dreaming for his chance. Which he very well could get in due time. Just still has some more work to do.
    • 3/5
      I'm left wondering who the target audiencefir this was. It was a bit too explicit for a YA, but a but thin for an adult read. It was ok, but it could have been better.
    • 3/5
      The line in chapter 56 about looking into the kids' eyes made me cringe. Everything after it was too preachy. I also found the dialogue for the kids to be way too adult for their age. The story was ok. I started to get annoyed with Tim's parents and it felt like a forced plot device to keep me turning pages.

      I did like how it made me reminisce about summer and playing in the woods though. There was a good line I wish I had highlighted where one of the kids is thinking that if being an adult means having the feeling of freedom that he had while walking through the woods, it would be great. If only. The older I get, the less time I have to sit in trees feeling pleasantly bored.
    • 4/5
      This is like if Koontz wrote the Stephen King story that became the movie "Stand By Me." It was OK but fell flat at the end. In particular I'm surprised the bottle cap system they used for security never amounted to anything. It was just a gratuitous detail instead of anything important.
    • 4/5
      It was nice to have a suspenseful mystery in which the reader is able to grasp the perspective from the killer as well as from the main characters. I became very close to each of the characters, and I admit it, I felt empathy even for the killer--a Vietnam vet whose background was handled very well. What struck me was how the kids learn that adults aren't "perfect"--they make mistakes, they can't fix everything, they don't have some kind of lie detector built in, and no, growing up isn't always as fun as it's built up to be. I remember perfectly well going through that stage of life, and I'm sure many other readers will nod their heads in agreement with the boys on many observations about the world around them. One of the reasons I wasn't completely in love with this novel was due to the ending scene with the boys and the detective. I don't think I've ever read anything so utterly forced--it was uncomfortable to read. Another is that, although I don't think we really needed to be in another character's head too much, it would have been nice to either have more scenes with the kidnapped Molly or to hear some of her thoughts, or even dialogue. I wanted to get to know the person the killer was so entranced by (or thought he was). I will say I don't typically "get into" detective/mystery books, but this one genuinely surprised me. Well-written and incredibly suspenseful. I wish it had been longer!