Review: Five out of Five stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
White Leaves is the first in Author M.P. Ness's E.L.F. series, and is beyond anything I could have expected.The book follows Shannon Hunter, an eco-terrorist working for an organization called E.L.F. (Earth Liberation Front) who unknowingly stumbles into the world of Elves. That sentence alone is enough to make you assume that this book will be singing and dancing and all the merry things that comes with the old Elf mythology. But the Elvine in this novel are by no means anything to underestimate.The Elvine are the strongest and oldest things in existence, other than the Great Tree who created them all. There are a select few Elves called the Black Leaves that have the power to level cities with a single swipe of their blade. These are not creatures to toy with, unless you want to be sliced into bloody bits. They don't mess around, and Shannon Hunter stands front row to watch them unleash their powers upon the world.Thick with fantasy and action, White Leaves is nothing I expected it to be. Author M.P. Ness creates a world so fascinating and wondrous it's hard to believe this hasn't been made into a movie yet. His ability to write a scene, to paint a picture, is unbelievable. I was captured by his style of writing and was sad to have it end. I look forward to the next book in the series with great impatience!