Beckett has to do what seems impossible—find Luna, but what if she doesn't want to be found?
Their world becomes bigger and the water becomes deeper. And one things becomes clear—a Nomadic paddleboarder without a family, without hope, is a catastrophe. And may be long gone.
H.D. Knightley loves weaving tales about characters who are in way over their head. People faced with huge environmental issues—light-polluted skies, droughts, piles of hoarded things, encroaching water—that rise above and carry on anyway.
She likes a story in which everything is a disaster, yet they kiss in the end, so it's all good.
Her characters are not perfectly strong, more like creatively ordinary, yet capable of amazing things.
They include Estelle (The Estelle Series) who becomes a celebrity dissident for starting a farm; the Princess Amelia (Fly: The Light Princess Retold) who discovers gravity and rescues her kingdom from a drought; Edmund who scales heights to rescue Violet (Violet's Mountain); and the paddleboarder Luna (the upcoming Leveling) who finds love, shelter, and possible disaster, at the edge of a rising ocean.
I really enjoyed reading Leveling 1 and 2. They are so unique and the characters seem so real that I found myself worrying about them and holding my breath through parts of it. Hoping for more!
This is a great continuation to part 1. We learn more about the characters and the reasons they act how they do. Some questions are answered while new questions take their place. It was a satisfying read and I look forward to part 3.