Generally speaking, I'm not planning on reviewing fics until they're complete, but I do have a handful of exceptions. Shades of the Heart by Ecanus is one of those exceptions where I say...yes, it's unfinished and yes you MUST read it.
Provided you can enjoy no small amount of angst. Because I wept through my entire binge read and THEN wept because it stops on a cliffhanger. Ecanus wrote this in 2017 and there's been an entire global pandemic since they dropped a chapter, but who knows? Maybe if more reviews start rolling in...they'll pop back in to finish. Here's to hoping.
The best kataaangs begin with a seed of truth-- a demonstration of how they compliment each other, or an experiment where the writer presents them with a problem and answers what those characters would do in that situation.
The content here is serious stuff- child loss, death, the after life. Things that I personally really enjoying reading when I'm in a particular mood. I think Ecanus does an amazing job describing emotional conflict. At times, they take the character and supply them with an emotion that paints a scene almost as if every character has their own color.
It's such a cool premise! A twist ending that had me gasp out loud-- like I don't even want to explain what it is because it's SO GOOD.