Touch

Hmmmm. Similar feelings about this to North's last book. It's well done, engaging and kept me reading. But it's just not original. Just as ....Harry August had the same basic idea as Ken Grimwood's Replay, the device at the core of this one is lifted from the movie Fallen. I'm not throwing around accusations of plagiarism - both novels go in very different directions from the works I've mentioned - but the shadow of those earlier works hangs over both books. It's impossible for me to read them without harking back to the other. I'd love to see what Claire North could do with an idea that hadn't been done before.