Title: Rafts
Author: Utunu
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 177 Pages
Category: Romantic Fantasy, Erotica
Rating: 5 Stars
At a Glance: Utunu is an eloquent storyteller, his voice soft and reassuring, his writing evocative and provocative. Rafts is a book I consumed as much as read as much as suffered. Every moment and every emotion was so worth it.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: Kunet, a young human pearl diver from a small coastal fishing village, seeks to prove himself. Yet when the gods of sea and sky clash, it wreaks havoc on those caught between. In the wake of catastrophe, he finds himself adrift with an unexpected companion. Torn from their homes and everything they once knew, two strangers must now work together to survive, even as an unlikely relationship blossoms between them.
Review: How to explain my love for this book . . .
It wrecked me. It touched my heart and broke it unapologetically. It transcended the strictest definitions of the Romance genre and became romantic in spectacularly agonizing and beautiful ways. It is joyful. It is erotic. It is playful. And it is profoundly unsubtle in its intention.
Kunet and Shima are more than an opposites attract story, and yet they are not of the same species. Shima is a gnoll; Kunet is human. Their desert island is more than a case of forced proximity leading to intimacy. It is their desire to survive and to thrive on their desert island that becomes intimate in the most fundamental of ways. It is their home and their sanctuary. It is their choice, and they choose each other with the fullest of commitment.
Utunu is an eloquent storyteller, his voice soft and reassuring, his writing evocative and provocative. Rafts is a book I consumed as much as read as much as suffered. Every moment and every emotion was so worth it.
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The Novel Approach Reviews 
Thank you so much for the lovely review! I was alerted to it by a friend of mine, and was very pleasantly surprised–I’m happy you liked it! :)
I’m curious how you even found out about my book in the first place, since I’m self-published and don’t exactly have any marketing or much in the way of preexisting readership. May I ask how you learned about it?
Thank you again,
Utunu
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Hi Utunu! Thanks for the tears! :)
I wish I could recall specifically, but it was definitely a reader recommendation that I happened across on either BlueSky or Threads. I’m leaning toward BlueSky, but either way, that word-of-mouth promo from another reader hooked me :)
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