All Will Be Revealed by U.Z. Eliserio

81a58PZPHKL._SL1500_Title: All Will Be Revealed
Author: U Z. Eliserio
Genre: Science Fiction / Conspiracy
Length: Novel (165 pages)
ISBN: 9781610406659
Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc (March 12th, 2014)
Heat Level: Low
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥2.5~3 Hearts
Reviewer: Thommie
Blurb: Danton de Mesa lives a quiet life producing videos of the Equine Show with his boss, Mr. Cretar, for people to watch on the Cloud. But Corporation Agent Rashiva Panashi enters his life and turns it upside down.
With the Equine Show shut down, Danton goes to work for the Corporation, which is a daily dose of backstabbing, espionage, counter-terrorism, and really small cubicles. But when Mr. Cretar’s brother is assassinated, Danton’s old boss becomes the new Prince of Keramus. To make things even more complicated, Danton starts dating Rashiva, who, when he is not wearing his intergalactic man of mystery mask, turns out to be a pretty fun guy.
Tensions are high between the Keramus Kingdom and the Corporation, and humanity might get involved in another war with their more powerful neighbors. Rashiva is accused to assassinating Mr. Cretar’s brother. Worse yet, one of the men investigating the murder of the monarch happens to be Danton’s ex!
With an intergalactic war on the horizon, Danton has to choose between, peace, safety, loyalty, and the person who might just be the love of his life.
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Review: This is a weird surrealistic work of fiction where time is not defined, worlds exist without much information and the basic structure of them is somewhat vague. The story starts on an asteroid, property of the Cooperation and bound to its funds. Mr. Cretar and Danton, the owner and employer of the Show await final judgment and Rashiva comes to deliver the bad news. The Show is off, and a new era begins. Keramusians, humans and a whole lot of other creatures including robots are this universe’s inhabitants. Keramusians are depicted as the creators of the humans, some kind of Gods yet the war between creator and creature that raged for years was finally over twenty years ago. The Prince of Keramusians and the Prime Minister of Earth are pro peace, a peace fragile that is shattered the moment the Prince is killed…

A conspiracy theory plot with so many elements in a sci-fi fiction work with a lot of world’s details can make it awfully difficult for you to sit back and enjoy while comprehending. The fact that time slips by without being defined makes this reading a hardship though it never stops gripping you in its web. The romantic relationship that dominates the story is yet another element that makes your head spin. It escalates quickly and without enough roots or ground to be based upon, yet it comes almost as a predefined thing, as if destiny made it be so. The couple has no real ties to keep them together in loyalty yet that’s exactly where they remain.

Sometimes nothing ever makes sense and others there is a world of sophistication going on behind this weird relationship. No, there are no intimate scenes to strengthen the bond, it all comes from a self-sufficient source, and the love between this couple becomes stronger and stronger without reason or evidence, even as the relationship itself is drenched in lies and conspiracy. But the point that love will prevail insists upon existing and in the end, it does exactly that. Realistic? Hardly. Everything is beyond that. This world, this setting, this whole story is all fiction based upon some noble ideas that give it a hint of tangible, but ultimately it remains out of reach.

There is a controlled chaos that characterizes the writing style here. It’s not all dumped into you, it’s not a mere throw out of info and ideas. But the read surely isn’t what we call approachable. In the end, I must answer one question; did I like it?
Yes and no. The fact that I felt lost most of the time was not enjoyable. The time frame not being defined was a burden. I loved the conspiracy plot and how it went, though even that didn’t have a proper closure. I loved the creatures here a lot. They were something I’d like to read more about. But overall, everything needed a bit more for me, especially the relationship part, that needed a proper birth and blooming period, which it lacked. The end itself was frustrating as hell; was it a cliffhanger? I don’t know, I didn’t get the feeling a sequel is to come and shed a bit light to the many questions left behind.

So bottom end, it was a good read, but not good enough.