Review Detail of SnowPenguin in The Seeker

This is a genuinely interesting story from the setting, to the main character and the writing style. It's very, very melodramatic with interesting writing and language choices. It might also be a parody. I mean, I'm pretty sure that its not meant to be one, but it kind of reads like one in some places when the melodrama just tops itself with all the dramatic monologuing and almost makes fun of the pretentious style of the writing. It's very well constructed with great use of parallels between setting and characters with awesome action pieces broken up by suspense. Author clearly has a mastery over pacing here, but in some places, it's almost like the main character and setting are being made fun of by the language. There's obvious great use of symbolism and references, but in some places, I can't help but stop to laugh. I'm sorry if this isn't supposed to be a parody and is supposed to be deadly serious through and through, and I know for a fact now that subtlety is a lost cause on this site, but there's some really good potential here to a classic so don't waste too much time on this review... so yeah.