The Overnight Ordeal

Choice Adventures #16

by Karen Ball

The reader's choices determine the course of the adventures of a group of Christians as they confront various fears while spending the night in the belltower of their church.

Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Karen's latest full-length novel, What Lies Within, has been nominated as the Best Inspirational Novel of the Year. Readers regularly call Karen's writing powerful, uplifting, and fun. She writes from her home in Oregon, where she lives with her husband, Don, and their two "kids": Dasha, a mischievous 4-month-old Siberian husky, and Dakota, an Aussie-Terrier mix that should have been named Psycho.

Next to working with words, Karen's greatest joys are playing with her dogs, laughing, savoring nature and wildlife, and finding wonder in everyday life.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is such a ridiculously weird book.

It's Christian lit which is basically telling the reader that they should listen to their parents and their conscience (god?) by making the viewpoint character so unlikable and poorly drawn that you can't help but be against anything he says or does.

The conscience is an actual voice in his head which he gets mad at for being right most of the time.

There is no actual resolution to most of the throughlines. They just kind of stop.