The Gift: A Review

The Gift is another fine book by Richard Paul Evans. It is published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Gift refers to a little boy named Collin who has healing abilities that profoundly impact the spiritual and physical health of adults in his life. The main character in the book, Nathan Hurst, has a chance encounter with Collin, his younger sister and their mom at an airport. As the ensuing story unfolds Hurst gets close to mom and her kids. He subsequently comes to grips with overburdening guilt stemming from childhood incidents.

Evans is a gifted story teller with keen insight into human nature. He develops his characters well and maintains a flow which has an element of the unpredictable which all good story tellers seem to master. At the end of the book I was struck by this comment by Nathan Hurst:

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.₁

Change what you desire and you change who you are. Change your values and you change what you desire. Good writers of Christian fiction skillfully weave themes like that into catching stories.



1. The Gift, by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon & Schuster, copyright 2007; Epilogue, Page 231 (large print edition).