{Book Review} Fifteen Minutes - Karen Kingsbury
If you know me, you know I like to read, which, if we are being
honest, is probably an understatement. I don't have one certain
genre that I stick with BUT my absolute favorite author is Karen
Kingsbury! I've read every single book that she has wrote and have loved
every one of them. This book was no different. Thanks to netgalley.com I
actually got to read this book about a month ago but was waiting to
talk about it until closer to the time of its release date, which is
October 29 (you should really go buy it that day)!
The majority of the people in the US have, at one time or another, watched one of the singing competition shows on TV like American Idol or The Voice. Kingsbury takes on this world, and she does it well. For the purpose of this novel she makes up a fictional TV show called Fifteen Minutes, and I think the title is perfection. Fifteen minutes of fame, how can it change your life? Will you let it change your life? Can fame make even the best intentions and most God fearing man falter in his convictions? How can fifteen minutes change even your relationships with the people you love the most? I loved the way Kingsbury took on these questions and addressed how fame can change a person even when they don't realize it.
Fifteen Minutes follows Zack Dylan as he leave his home in Kentucky and goes to audition for the show Fifteen Minutes. He has good intentions, he wants to save his family's farm and he wants to show the love of Jesus through him as the nation watches. But then he is faced with decisions that have him pushing the boundaries of his faith and his character.
Book Description:
The majority of the people in the US have, at one time or another, watched one of the singing competition shows on TV like American Idol or The Voice. Kingsbury takes on this world, and she does it well. For the purpose of this novel she makes up a fictional TV show called Fifteen Minutes, and I think the title is perfection. Fifteen minutes of fame, how can it change your life? Will you let it change your life? Can fame make even the best intentions and most God fearing man falter in his convictions? How can fifteen minutes change even your relationships with the people you love the most? I loved the way Kingsbury took on these questions and addressed how fame can change a person even when they don't realize it.
Fifteen Minutes follows Zack Dylan as he leave his home in Kentucky and goes to audition for the show Fifteen Minutes. He has good intentions, he wants to save his family's farm and he wants to show the love of Jesus through him as the nation watches. But then he is faced with decisions that have him pushing the boundaries of his faith and his character.
Book Description:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen
Kingsbury comes a dramatic story about fame, true love, and the cost of
having it all.
Zack Dylan made a promise to God and his college sweetheart as he left his family’s horse farm in Kentucky to compete on the popular reality television show Fifteen Minutes: If he makes it, the fame won’t change him.
Overnight, Zack is the nation’s most popular contestant, a country singer with the looks and voice of a young Elvis. As his star rises, Zack is asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs, and also something more. Something Zack could never have imagined. Just as America is falling in love with Zack, just as he’s on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster.
At the same time, Reese Weatherly, a therapeutic horse instructor, is no longer sure about her relationship with Zack, or the wedding they had dreamed about. While Zack advances from one round of the competition to the next, an offer comes to Reese—one that will take her to a home halfway around the world.
Then Chandra Olson—reigning diva pop star and one of the Fifteen Minutes judges—intervenes. Chandra has suffered so much public pain and private agony since her days as a Fifteen Minutes contestant. Now she wants just one thing: meaning.
Can Chandra’s private losses help Zack find his way, or will his fifteen minutes of fame cause him to lose the life he once loved? Fifteen Minutes is a story of character, compromise, and the cost of having it all. A story that raises the question: Who are the real winners?
Zack Dylan made a promise to God and his college sweetheart as he left his family’s horse farm in Kentucky to compete on the popular reality television show Fifteen Minutes: If he makes it, the fame won’t change him.
Overnight, Zack is the nation’s most popular contestant, a country singer with the looks and voice of a young Elvis. As his star rises, Zack is asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs, and also something more. Something Zack could never have imagined. Just as America is falling in love with Zack, just as he’s on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster.
At the same time, Reese Weatherly, a therapeutic horse instructor, is no longer sure about her relationship with Zack, or the wedding they had dreamed about. While Zack advances from one round of the competition to the next, an offer comes to Reese—one that will take her to a home halfway around the world.
Then Chandra Olson—reigning diva pop star and one of the Fifteen Minutes judges—intervenes. Chandra has suffered so much public pain and private agony since her days as a Fifteen Minutes contestant. Now she wants just one thing: meaning.
Can Chandra’s private losses help Zack find his way, or will his fifteen minutes of fame cause him to lose the life he once loved? Fifteen Minutes is a story of character, compromise, and the cost of having it all. A story that raises the question: Who are the real winners?
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