Fifteen Minutes by Karen Kingsbury

I just finished Fifteen Minutes by Karen Kingsbury.  She stopped time for me as I read this insightful story about a young man by the name of Zack who goes onto a singing show much like American Idol.  Zack is a very strong Christian who says that going after a chance to sing on the TV show Fifteen Minutes won't change him.  He is going to honor God with every chance he gets.  Zack is hoping to win it all in order to save his parents horse farm.  Little does he know that the production of a television show will cost him some things that are very important to him.  God is watching out for Zack and you can see God's hand in Zack's career in ways you do not expect.

As I said earlier, Kingsbury stopped time for me.  What I mean is that she pulled me into the story so completely that as I was reading I had no idea how much time had passed.  Kingsbury brings up some good questions in the book about how we all think that life will not change us.  Yet as time goes by we see the little compromises we make here and there, only to see just how we have changed.  Sometimes we have people that speak into our lives to help us see the changes so we can correct things.  Sometimes the changes cost us things we weren't expecting.  As Christians, we want to do things that glorify God.  Some of the roads that we travel will end up pulling us away from God.  Zack found that this was happening in his life, but God also had people in his life to pull him back to God.  All he had to do was listen.  The same goes for us, God is constantly calling to his children back to himself.  There is a price to pay and Zack had to pay that price, but was it too high for him?  Read Fifteen Minutes to find out if the price for fame is too high.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a free ebook to read and review.