Don't Tell Me No

Forbidden Tastes #1

by Honey Chanel

All debts must be paid. No matter the cost... Raya White was payment for her husband’s crimes. The thief had pawned her off to his billionaire boss to pay back the money he had embezzled. Unknowingly, she was an accomplice, living off the false wealth she’d thought he’d earned. Backed into a corner, she has no choice but to submit to pay the debt. The word ‘no’ was no longer able to be in her vocabulary. What started out as a sentence, turned into so much more. She fell for the woman. Craved her. Now she doesn’t want to leave.

Genres: Lesbian, Romance, LGBT, Novella, Smut, Erotica, Queer

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 9, 2021

Reviews

[gloria .☆ﾟ. · Rating 1 out of 5]

➥ 1 Star *:･ﾟ✧

"Please fuck me with your big cock, hailey."

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I don't even want to talk about it, really. The day people start writing better smutty sapphic novellas (with good strap-on scenes, please, like do I have to beg or what) is the day the world becomes a better place. (I volunteer Haley Cass, Fiona Riley, Penelope Douglas and Ashley Herring Blake)

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[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was so entertaining and very steamy, but the writing wasn't that great. A lot of the same phrases were used over and over again. If you want something sapphic and steamy, pick this up. The writing isn't the best and things turn into love a little too quickly, but I had fun reading it!

[Netgyrl (Laura) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - spicy!

It's erotica so the set up is a bit sus but, just go with it and you will have a good time. Who doesn't want to spend 6 months with a gifted lady-lovin' billionaire who has decided that the woman she wants should get everything. It was a fun, saucy read.

[CLAR · Rating 3 out of 5]

WARNING

This book is pure lesbian erotica. Hot, steamy sex will fill the following pages. If you are looking for characters with much depth and a full length novel—this isn’t the book for you.

☝🏻 That should've been included in the blurb 🙂

This was a good book for what it promised. The sort that's got details you shouldn't inspect too closely. It involves cheating though, and some of the sexy talk felt weird to me. But it's perfectly fine for a short smutty read.

Love the cover!

[Sab · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise sounds fun enough but it ended up not being for me. The dialogue was really cringey and I hated the overuse of pet names and the smut wasn’t anything special. Lots of tension was missing to make the smut work for me.
Also super annoying to come for the smut but instead get characters professing their love for each other after less than 100 pages pretending to be in love when they so clearly aren’t. I mean come on, that love declaration was so weak. Hope this isn’t the best of the best sapphic novellas out there.

[babygyalreadit · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is what sold me on Ms. Honey Chanel. This story follows Raya a writer whose husband was stealing millions of dollars from his boss… Hadley. Instead of giving him over to the authorities she offers him a deal to hand his wife over for 6 months as a way to pay off his debt😃😃😃

Raya was nervous at first because Hadley has always been pretty forward and flirty with her each time they would meet so she knew the contract came with sex and that it fucking did bitch. She gets whisked away to her compound where she can’t leave unless it’s with Hadley or to go see Hadley. She’s told she should only wear lingerie that was purchased for her around the house at all times and she can never say the word “no”.

Bitch this shit was hot as fuck and I mean that in the most dramatic way possible but like all jokes aside I was sweatingggg. Hadley takes her to Paris on vacation and they visit a lesbian sex club where she’s a member I just about died. Voyeurism + toys + exhibitionism & KEWCHIE!!! I’ve never been uncertain of my sexuality before but this just further proves to me how damn queer I am. Please read it😃😃

[25 Readings Or More · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
This is my first FF romance and i loved it !!!😍😍😍
It was a fast steamy novella that really made me sweat 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three words: sapphic smut novella.

The premise is Raya’s husband embezzled from his boss’ company and in exchange for his boss not going to the police, she requires that his wife be her ~companion~ for six months.

I wanted a little more angst, a little less “love” but dang there was some good spice.

CW: betrayal by husband, being "sold" for six months, going to a sex club, technically cheating since she's married

[Iman (hiatus) · Rating 3 out of 5]

hey, look what i just read! it’s FF 👀😳

i totally don’t understand hypersexual people, but at least that was hot. it was giving a little wattpad vibes which i find hilarious and mehh at the same time hahah ://

[Jenn (The Book Refuge) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was exactly what it promised. Lesbian sexy times. And I thoroughly enjoyed them. No thought, no plot, just spicy.

3.5 stars
4 on the spice scale

[lauraღ · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Let that be the last time you use that word around me.”

2.5 stars. No thoughts, head empty, just vibes and good smut. Raya is an author and wife of a wealthy man, but then she finds out that not only has her husband been stealing from his boss, but he's also struck a deal to loan her to said boss for six months so that charges won't be pressed. Hadley Hamilton is dominant, suave, and wants nothing more than to give Raya everything she wants. I wanted this to be a full length book so bad; the setup is obviously ridiculous, but since we're running with it, there's a foundation for a really interesting dynamic here? Especially since Hadley has been lowkey pining for years? It would have been great if we could have gotten more scenes of them in the mansion, getting to know each other. But there was very little development to the romance and there was nothing scintillating about the writing. There was just good chemistry and really good smut. Paris... whew. And I have to admit, because the story was so shallow, I found myself not having the same qualms/complaints I usually do about billionaire romances.

(Though I still had some. Massive wealth isn't that hot.)

Content warnings: BDSM elements, exhibition/voyeurism, sharing

[•.~*Izzy*~.• · Rating 3 out of 5]

super quick read, not anything special, the sex scenes were mostly meh, but still entertaining enough to finish

[🐉 PrinZessBookDragon 👑🌶️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I MUST admit, the story was a bit predictable BUT deliciously predictable and i loved the plot even still. i have read this author's work in the past and didn't realize it. this story was romantic, sweet and will make you wish you were Raya with the way Hadley treated her and had her back. the sex scenes were superb. i will definitely be reading book 2 at some point soon!

[Marcy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was prepared to suspend my disbelief to get past the problematic set up for the sake of the story but the biggest problem wasn’t the taboo nature but the writing itself.

The whole thing is told to you instead of shown. It’s like reading a recap of a story someone else read. The dialogue is unbearably cringey and the characters’ behaviour reads like it was written by a 14 year old boy trying his hand at lesfic smut on wattpad.

There’s absolutely no tension which was honestly a crime because the whole ridiculous premise exists specifically to create a scenario where there should be a lot of it. Raya literally goes from being incredibly anxious and wanting to cry about the situation, to being very comfortable and wanting to jump into Hadley’s pants. Overnight. Without any further interaction between the two. What? Did she have a personality transplant while she slept? Where’s the buildup?

Maybe you’re thinking, sure the dialogue is cringey and the story structure is rubbish but I’m here for the smut so who cares? I would probably respect that enough to give a second star if the smut was anything in the realm of even ‘just okay’ but it’s terrible. I would be truly shocked if the author wasn’t a cishet guy using a pen name. It’s that bad.

Sometimes writing can be bad in a junk food kind of way that’s still fun but this was not that.

DNF 38%

[Curiosity · Rating 2 out of 5]

Listen, I really wanted to love this book. A story about a shitty husband getting his wife taken away from him by a hot businesswoman who's also his boss? Sounds right up my alley! Sadly, the execution doesn't live up to the premise.

When it come to the romance, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around how quickly Raya fell for Hadley. Still, I was willing to ignore it. I enjoyed the intimate scenes as well as how devoted Hadley was. She perfectly conveyed the more caring and attentive partner option for Raya.

As for the writing, I was disappointed. I don't mind a few typos or errors, but this one had too many for my liking. At a certain point, it started taking me out of the flow of the story. One thing I found even more difficult to ignore was the club scene in which (supposed) adults are participating in adult activities. Raya sees a young woman and doesn't think that person is of age but doesn't say/do anything. Raya keeps participating in the voyeuristic/exhibitionist festivities. No trigger warning given. Let's just say I was SHOCKED. 🥴

[Grendaycita Segovia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,4

[freyleyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was lesbian erotica and that’s all it was. zero character development, and why was it 3rd POV?

3/5⭐️
4.5/5🔥

[Sofija · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was solid but I had issues with the writing style. The dialogue was too stilted at times. I think I found a new favorite trope...

[Kemi · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5⭐️
Well... that was strange, to say the least.

Okay so, Raya and Brandon are married right. But Brandon has stolen millions from his billionaire boss & she has found out. So naturally, Brandon and Raya are thinking 'wtf what are we going to do?' So Brandon, the idiot, thinks it's a good idea to give his wife for six months to his BILLIONAIRE boss to pay off his debts. Men 🙄. So unnecessarily long story cut short, Raya basically becomes Hadley's sex slave for like 3 months until she apparently realises she loves her and vice versa.

Please don't tell me this is the best of the sapphic novellas? because I went on TikTok and searched and this is what y'all recommended me. now I'm mad. don't get me wrong it did not start off bad at all, I found the whole premise quite funny. But then the timeline of everything started fading together and I was like huh? like if you're going to smash, just smash... there's no need to pretend you're in love because that love declaration was so weak. It's okay I was only here for the smut anyway. And then I was utterly confused as to why Hadley kept on referring to her tits as mounts? when did we approve that in editing? AND when she took her to Paris she let her friends feast on her coochie like it was the last supper😭 All in all, this novella was so funny to me but yeah it was steamy too, so I guess it served its purpose.

[emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

oh, cmon, she calls her "my love" since the day one, i can't give it less than 5 stars

[Ericaperez007 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spicy spicy spicy!! Jesus Christ I went in blind! I didn’t know it was w4w and I’m not mad about it!

[Raen☁️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars this was everything I needed and more the club scene omg!!

[nika · Rating 2 out of 5]

kinda terrible but fun and silly at the same time

[Sapphic Bookshelf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don’t Tell Me No is an Adult Erotic Romance I thoroughly enjoyed! 🔥

Four stars for the ✨vibes!✨

{Raya is the payment for her husbands massive debt, but it doesn’t take long for Raya to realize her time with Hadley isn’t exactly a punishment}

Look, as long as you don’t look at things too closely, this is the perfect steamy read. Glossing past the initial set up for Reya and Hadley’s arrangement, I liked the way their relationship developed.

And, seriously, who wouldn’t enjoy being doted on by a billionaire?? Raya’s every need was anticipated and taken care of. She was spoiled inside and outside the bedroom by a gorgeous woman.

So, yes, it was fun to suspend disbelief and embrace their romance. And if you’re looking for a steamy short read, this one is perfect for you!

[vxhexn reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this story written in third person, which surprised the heck out of me. Normally these are near automatic DNF’s. If like me you aren’t a third person POV fan, don’t let that hold you back from sampling this story. You won’t regret finding out exactly how attentive and loving Hadley can be.

I first enjoyed this story in the Girl’s Night anthology and upon a second read, it lives up to everything I originally thought.

Raya White’s husband’s underhanded actions have led to an indecent proposal - requiring she surrender herself to his boss for six months and forfeit the ability the utter the word “no”. Seventeen years Raya’s senior, Hadley Hamilton knows what she wants and will not stop until she gets it.

What caught my attention was the way the story played out. At the root of it all Raya was neglected and dissatisfied with her marriage and Hadley swooped in and cherished her. Raya became the center of Hadley’s world. Regardless of money, Hadley went out of her way to make Raya happy. This is all anyone wants and desires in a relationship - to feel loved, cherished, and appreciated through ever day acts of kindness and mind blowing orgasms.



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[hannah ♡ · Rating 1 out of 5]

*1.5 rounded down*
if you're going to write a very short, smutty story, the sex scenes actually have to be good. in this, they were cringe and so were the characters. no tension, no chemistry, no plot.

if you're looking for a quick fix, and don't care that there's every cringe nickname for boobs under the sun, then check this out.

wasnt a fan that this also seemingly painted lesbians as a free-for-all.

[— nova · Rating 1 out of 5]

again, i need a little more plot, which is on me. also lost points for every times breasts get called "mounds"

[Izzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow. hot.

[Anjali · Rating 1 out of 5]

no comment. 🙂

[bella fazzati · Rating 1 out of 5]

wtf was this? 🫠😂