Review: Very imaginative, very creative story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  I was really intrigued by this story as I hadn't heard of anything like this before.  I have read elf stories before, but nothing as imaginative and original as White Leaves.  Shannon Hunter is trying to help the environment by joining E.L.F., the Earth Liberation Front.  She is on an E.L.F. mission when things go terribly, terribly wrong.  There are explosions and people getting shot and she ends up in the hospital.  She's not sure if it's the drugs they are giving her or all of the stress of the night, but she is pretty sure that she saw something, someone at this mission site that didn't belong.  Shannon is pretty sure that he was shooting at people with arrows.  And he almost killed her.I found this story to be very interesting, complex and at times hard to follow.  But I loved it.  I actually messaged the author to ask him about pronunciation of some of the characters and found out that there is a Glossary at the back.  Cool!! That made things much easier. Michael has written a very complicated, multi-faceted, multi-dimensional story.  There are so many layers of this world that he has built that it is easy to get lost in all of the possibilities of the tales that could be told in them.  I hated that the story had to end and that I have to wait for the next one.  I highly recommend this story for anyone that is tired of the normal elf stories and wants to read something a lot more involved and that makes you think and dream.