I don't really like romantic books but this one kinda of hit home. My past relationships have been up and down and this book put things into perspective for me. It is a nice quick thought provoking book. ( )

Certi libri ti prendono, non riesci ad andare a dormire, a fare altro finché non li finisci. E questo per me è stato uno di questi.
Il bello è che non ce n'è motivo.
All'inizio del secondo capitolo, quando viene presentato il secondo protagonista sai già come andrà a finire. E alla metà di questo stesso capitolo sai anche il 90% della trama, quale sarà il percorso che porterà a quella fine. E comunque è una storia per niente originale.
È scritto in maniera decente, ma in fondo normale. Dato il mestiere di sceneggiatore cinematografico dell'autore è molto 'filmico', ma non in maniera sfacciata né invadente.
E nonostante tutto ciò, non riuscivo a smettere di leggerlo. Ho dovuto impormi di andare a dormire, ma appena alzato l'ho ripreso e finché non l'ho finito non ho fatto altro.
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Riletto. Ci sono momenti in cui hai proprio bisogno di libri come questi: uno squarcio di speranza e gioia a buon mercato. Ma non per questo da disprezzare. Anzi ( )

A nice blend of romance, drama and faith. The storyline was believeable, the romance wasn't korny and the references to god and faith weren't preachy. A good book with a beautiful cover!!!

I had some idea--but then again, little idea at all--what I was in for when I picked up The Touch by author Randall Wallace, the story of a young, gifted surgeon who refuses to operate anymore after a personal, fatal tragedy.

I didn't know until right before I started reading that this novella is by the screenwriter of the 1995 film Braveheart, but I didn't go on reading with Braveheart expectations or qualifiers in my brain. I just took the story as it came, and although this may not be the place to make any cases on the matter, I would encourage all readers who normally steer clear of novellas because of their "too short" or "no depth" stigma NOT to prejudge and pass up this book on that basis. It's too nuanced, too raw, too beautiful, too powerful of a story to overlook.

Sometimes, less is indeed more, and the author does more here than just relay a little medical tale. Admittedly, in the beginning, some of the wording and punctuation choices had me thinking the read might turn out to be on the pedestrian and even corny side, but I was proven wrong. Here, medicine and surgery become a song; they're beauty and art, faith and genius, trial and triumph. The whole story is all of these things, both within and outside of the operating room.

It's an excellently woven testament to life and love, and though I couldn't absorb it all in one read-through, what I have absorbed this time is enough to mark this book as one of my all-time favorites.
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I received a complimentary copy of this book, for which I've given an honest review, through a rewards program from the publisher. I received no monetary compensation. ( )

One of the best books I've read in a long time. Such a beautiful and hopeful storyline. Very inspirational and a must read. The characters of Jones and Blair are so compelling and heart warming.
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Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability called The Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancée, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room.

Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon’s hands, reducing or eliminating failed surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this surgical tool, and all of them have failed.

As Lara pursues Jones’s skill for her project, Jones’s stubborn resistance cracks, and he begins to open up to her about the wounds that still haunt him. But when Jones discovers the urgency behind Lara’s work, he must choose to move beyond his past. As each is forced to surrender secret fears, they are bonded together through the lives of the people Jones serves and by the healing secret that Faith left behind. ( )