"reaction from him" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing the response of someone to something else. For example: "The news of the promotion elicited a positive reaction from him."
Raonic breaks with a series of huge forehands and there is barely any reaction from him.
The letter in "The New Yorker" was the next reaction from him.
I think he did, but I certainly didn't get any hostile reaction from him at all.
Even the most hardened guest was looking at him with sympathy, unable to get any sort of reaction from him.
I wouldn't inflict a 600-page manuscript on him in the evening - or expect some reaction from him, which maybe he can't, or doesn't want, to give..
A "no" vote would be a crushing rebuke to the Turkish President, and, in the short-term, could provoke a violent reaction from him.
Epworth told the BBC's Lizo Mzimba that seeing the music orchestrated and performed, was quite a moment and seeing the reaction from people made him feel that they had "nailed it".
Bink! commented on the first time he showed the composition to West, saying "the reaction I got from him after I played the beat for the first time was real intense".
The reaction from customers, though, caused him to think twice.
Although the protest Jones organized figured to be sparsely attended -- at one point he said he expected only five participants -- the news of his plan triggered a huge reaction from locals opposed to him and sympathetic to the mosque.
His comments triggered an angry reaction from remain campaigners, who accused him of reaching for the "Farage playbook".
