Alright quick book review since I read it in a day (not something that happens often with me)
Finding Noel is by Richard Paul Evans, it has an interesting storyline. I guessed at many of the outcomes and there was a weird sort of foreshadowing with portions of the chapters--maybe I'm just slow, it took me a few chapters to catch on to the ordering of events.
I wonder a little at Evans and his parental input. Each of the fathers mentioned in the story were... without real presence. Many of them lacked character. (In case you wondered there were 5 fathers).
At the very beginning the central character is close to the edge, contemplating suicide. I wonder--how close are we each day to people who no longer wish to live? What difference have we made in their lives? Or have we simply brushed by without leaving an impression.