I really wanted to like this book more than I did because I am a huge fan of Jackie Ashenden normally. I've read a previous book in this series and really enjoyed it and I had been looking forward to Gideon's story. I'm with others unfortunately with the ick factor of the 13 years of being this young woman’s guardian and it might of worked out better had they recently gone years without seeing each other so we would know she had some years to mature and reflect on her own and then come back around a "grown woman", but without something like that I just couldn't do it. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to read the book and Thank Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for a honest review.

I have read several books by this author and have enjoyed them all. However, I really had a hard time with this book. It is a standalone but so many references were made of previous books that I felt stranded at times by what was going on. Beyond that, I also had trouble with the main characters of this story. Without giving any spoilers, I am only going to say that many scenes in this book made me very uncomfortable. Even though there was a great HEA at the end, I couldn't get over some of the previous scenes. This is just my opinion and if you have read the series, you may feel completely different about this book. It was just a difficult book for me to really enjoy. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book for an honest review. I wish I had liked it better as I usually love this author's work.

3.5 Stars

You know when a book has all the right things going for it except maybe a couple of things a reader personally dislikes? That's pretty much what happened here. I love Jackie Ashenden. I love her books. I love this series. I do not love when the heroine has to chase and beg the hero to love her. Now, I know Gideon loves Zoe. It was obvious with how much he did for her to keep her safe but he wasn't willing to look at her as more than a foster sister.

Zoe has loved Gideon her whole life. She's dreamed of more with him, but was constantly placed firmly as the little sister. Zoe is now 25 and realizing that Gideon will never see here the way she wants. She tries to move on but Gideon is so firm on protecting her, even if it's from herself, she isn't able to move on.

I didn't like the unequal balance in power between these two. Zoe is basically protected and sheltered so much that she is a 25 year virgin who has to completely rely on Gideon. She's in love with him but has to watch him treat her like she is a kid all the while he has his own piece on the side.

Eventually, the shift in their relation changes, but it still felt very one sided for me. I'm glad I read the book since I've been curious about them from the start. Personally I just didn't enjoy how much Zoe had to push, beg and give of herself to get Gideon to love her like he should.

ARC provided by Netgalley.

I always enjoy reading Jackie Ashenden and I liked this story, especially the part concerning the hero’s resistance and following surrender to the heroine. I liked how such an alpha hero suffers later in the story with the heroine’s absence, the “Zoe-shaped void”.
Despite that, this book is not one of my favorites by this author. Overall I liked the alpha tortured hero, possessive and domineering, a man with a violent and painful past that is now a mechanic. He’s fiercely protective, loyal and a doer and I liked those traits, but sometimes he was just too much (alpha, domineering) and bordered jerkiness. I didn’t read the previous books so perhaps I’m missing something in terms of characterization.
I also liked the family the main characters and their friends (who have stories in the series) made, more satisfying and strong than the dysfunctional biological families they had to endure as children.
The heroine, who has a crush on the hero since she was a kid, didn’t move me. All that blushing and insecurities and her worshiping the hero – justifiable in a way because Gideon was really her knight in shining armor – is not my type of thing. And the loss of virginity quest is so… childish?
There are a lot of sex scenes and I’ve skimmed most of them, didn’t interest me (I liked, though, the way Jackie Ashenden wrote the sex scenes in “The Billionaire Beast”, an awesome book!).
Some repetitions bothered me: Gideon calling Zoe “little one” (it sounds a bit fatherly) and the hero’s "dark eyes".
I also liked the setting (Detroit) and the world created in the story.

Zoe James has had a rough and different life. She was raised by a mother who never wanted her, until she was 6, when her mother was sent to prison on drug charges and she went into foster care. She was returned to her mother 4 years later, after bouncing around foster homes, where she remained for the next 3 years, until Gideon showed up and took her away with him.

Zoe’s character is immature. She just seems to accept Gideon’s over protectiveness. Until she turns 25. She’s a virgin and tired of living her life in seclusion. She wants to go out and live the normal life of someone her age. It takes her 12 years to realize this. Seriously?

Gideon Black grew up in an abusive home where he watched his father kill his mother. Then he was shipped off to multiple foster homes until he aged out of the system. He was an angry young man looking for ways to work out his issues. He got in with the wrong people and became an enforcer for hire.

Gideon met Zoe in foster care. She was a ray of sunshine for him. Even when he aged out of the system, he kept returning to visit her. He took a job to “take care of” someone giving an up and coming Senator problems. When he showed up at the address and realized it was Zoe and her mom, he took Zoe and ran. They settled in Detroit where he created his own family. He was an alpha male who never let Zoe go to college and she could only work for him at his mechanic shop. For her own good of course.

The first time Gideon and Zoe get together, he’s a total dick to her. Because he was upset with himself for feeling anything for his 12 years younger former foster sister, he takes it out on her. He takes her virginity on the hood of a car knowing the pain he’s causing her and making her cry without any second thoughts about it. He never apologizes for it either. Ever.

There is an excessive amount of internal dialogue. Him calling her “little one,” is just plain creepy, especially during sex. I don’t have a problem with the age difference between them, but the author just kept expounding on it, making it a problem. I struggled with things I wouldn’t normally struggle with because the author just kept making them an issue. While I liked Gideon a little more by the end of the book, it wasn’t enough. The ending was too abrupt.

I haven’t read the first two books in the series. While you get some background from the author, I think this would have been a smoother read if I had. There were still some gaps. I have read other books by this author and I have to say they are hit and miss for me.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC provided by NetGalley.

Sin for Me is the third and final book in Jackie Ashenden’s Motor City Royals series, and I am sad to see this dark, sexy series end. I’ve loved the prior two books, and Dirty for Me is on my Best of 2016 list. I eagerly awaited Gideon and Zoe’s story in Sin for Me, and their story exceeded my expectations. They are a great way to wrap up this excellent series.

Gideon has been Zoe’s protector and psuedo-big brother since they were teens who meet through a community center, and he’s attempted to shelter her from everything - seriously, everything. The two of them form a family unit with three other friends from the center, and Gideon has always been the patriarch of the group. He loves fiercely and has a powerful and commanding presence, but he is also sensitive and caring, especially when it comes to Zoe.

She is twenty-five and doesn't feel like Gideon's sister. She wants him physically and is half in love with him, but recently gave up on the hope that he will ever see her in a romantic light. She decides to step out of his protective shadow and enjoy the life of a young twenty-something (have sex for the first time,) but her independence and search for a man jolts Gideon unexpectedly causing him to reevaluate his feelings. He’s surprised and conflicted to realize that he desires Zoe.

While Gideon and Zoe have a long history, there are still secrets that lie between them that could damage their fledging romance. Mysteries come to a head in the Motor City reeking havoc, and both of them have to choose where they want their relationship to go.

Sin for Me has all of the steamy sexiness that Ms. Ashenden is known for. She has quite a talent for writing sex either in a car or on a car. :-) Gideon is one of my favorite of her characters. He’s such a bad boy, but he is also extremely loving and caring to his friends; he will do anything for them. There’s lots of angst, a little bit of mystery, and a big dose of romance in Sin for Me making it a highly recommendable read.

ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley, but this review was voluntarily and honestly written.

I hate having to write this but I did not like Gideon in this book. I guess he sort of redeemed himself at the end, barely. He was way to overpowering. I understand he was alpha and trying to protect Zoe and his other friends, but it sounded like Zoe couldn't do anything by herself. When she tried to speak up about anything, she was accused of acting like a spoiled teenager. She was basically a prisoner of a one block radius is what it sounded like. And not a single friend stood up for her either and told Gideon he was too overbearing. Zoe just took it, too. I wanted to scream at her in the beginning, but she finally grew a backbone. I loved the other two books in the series- loved them. This one? Not so much. My mind kept yelling, "This is signs of domestic abuse". I'll still be reading this author's books and looking forward to it.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

Starting this book I wasn't sure if I was liking Zoe because she was so persistent, but not long into the story I started to fall in love with her. I also understood her dedication to seduce Gideon even though he was fighting her at every turn. And I also understood Gideon's reasons to keep her at arm length while protecting her.
I found this book hot and fast paced. I didn't see Zoe and Gideon as foster brother and sister. I seen them more as roommates with Zoe wanting more from Gideon than what he wanted to give her.

When you've and your roommate think differently about your relationship it's gonna cause a few problems. Zoe doesn't think of Gideon as her foster brother. They were only in the same foster home for a year. And she knows one thing for certain, she wants Gideon to take her vCard. She just wants to be like any other twenty five year old woman and get laid. But there's one problem and that problem is Gideon.
Gideon rescued Zoe years ago, protecting her from a danger she doesn't know. But while he's trying to keep her safe from the danger she's unaware of, he's also fighting to keep her out of his bed. How much rejection can Zoe take before gives up on Gideon? And how much can he take from Zoe's before he looses control?

I enjoy Jackie Ashenden's books. The first book of her's I ever read was Dirty For Me, the first book in the Motor City Royals series. The gritty characters and steamy scenes always make for a great read. Sin For Me was no exception to this. Zoe and Gideon are both complex characters who throw off enough heat in bed, and the alley behind the bar, and the top of an old Chevy, and in the kitchen...to send the entire Royal neighborhood up in flames. However, the introduction of Zoe's father as a point of conflict feels a little stale. A wealthy father causing trouble in Royal? Sounds familiar... And while they are reunited for their happy ending in the end, there is so much leaving and coming back on the part of the protagonists that it's hard to keep track of who's leaving this time and why. A nice book overall, from an established romance novelist.

I really enjoyed this series. I'd have to say though Zee and Tamara were my favorite out of the three books. :)

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Amazingly complex and highly entertaining with raw, real characters. I love that Ashenden always seems to color outside the lines and she does it so well every single time. I really enjoyed the complicated characters and gritty feel of this novel and would recommend it to anyone looking for a not-so-cookie-cutter alpha hero. Really good!

2 1/2 Star review.........

Sin for Me is the third book in Ms Ashenden’s Motor City Royals, and while I’m happy to give a series time to evolve, this story just didn’t cut it for me.

I appreciate that some stories require a certain amount of internal dialogue, but Sin for Me took it to an unbearable level, and as much as I tried, I didn’t like Zoe and Gideon.

It seems that this author’s books are far too often hit or miss.

Zoe was in and out of foster care for years. That's where she met Gideon. He was the only constant in her life.. When she was eleven, Gideon was sent to kill her mother but instead he ran with her. Her mother died six months later of a drug overdose.
Gideon saw his father kill his mother and was put into foster care. Now they live in Michigan and he watches Zoe like a hawk. When he realizes Zoe's dad is in town, he goes into protective mode. Not wanting her out of his sight.
Zoe has been in love with Gideon but he still sees her as a child. So she sets out to find a man and get rid of her virginity. When he finds out he goes ballistic. He decides to prove she can't handle him but the tables get turned when she is everything he could want but doesn't believe he deserves it.
She meets her father and he gives her an ultimatum....leave the state and never tell she is her father or he'll destroy Gideon and her friends. She takes it and tells Gideon, who has decided to turn himself and the info he has on her father to the police. She realizes he was always there for her, so she goes back to be there for him. Even if she has to wait for him.
I read this in one sitting. It bothered me how bad Gideon treated Zoe during and after sex. Exciting, very erotic, edge of your seat book.

Gideon's done a lot of things in the past that he's not proud of but he is a fiercely loyal friend. Zoe is in danger and making sure she is safe is the only thing Gideon cares about. Once his foster sister for a year, Zoe has always looked up to Gideon and loved him. Now that she's an adult she resents his over protectiveness and that's when Gideon finally sees her as a woman. He can fight against it all he wants but that won't change the outcome. Their chemistry is too strong and their passion explosive. Red hot romance!

I loved this story! I've read all three books in this trilogy and they've all been amazing. Glad to finally have Gideon and Zoe's story. Jackie Ashenden never fails to amaze me with the complex and raw characters she develops. If your looking for a nice gentle alpha hero this isn't the book or series for you. There are times in this book that Gideon is downright cruel. There is no OW drama or physical abuse triggers to worry about but he is gruff, rough, and cold at times. Getting past that and down to the reasons why he is that way is what makes this story so good. The fact that Zoe can love him through all of it is amazing. In the end, the heart you know he has deep inside comes out and he's just fantastic. Definitely a book I recommend.

I’ve been waiting for Sin for Me. I’ve wanted to read Gideon and Zoe’s story since the series started. These two have a very long history starting when Zoe was a very young child. As they matured their relationship hasn’t in some ways. Zoe’s certain her feelings have changed from the idolization of Gideon she felt as a child to adult love of the man. Gideon is slower to look at Zoe as the 25 year old woman she now is and subsequently treats her like a child still. He hasn’t even noticed her in a sexual way which is good. If he’d been attracted to her much earlier it would have been creepy. This story was in large part an exploration of ͞where do we go from here͟. They both have a lot of introspection to do and it’s not easy for them to move from their childhood closeness to forge a relationship as man and woman.

Gideon has always looked after Zoe since they shared a foster home when she was six. He
hasn’t been in the habit of explaining his motives to her. In today’s environment, his not letting Zoe go to college or leave his home probably rubs a lot of people the wrong way. He is high-handed with her for some very good reasons though. She willingly allows him to be controlling without forcing him to explain himself. They both need to learn to communicate.

Ashenden often writes outside the lines of what’s comfortable to readers. Her characters are gritty, not always likeable and that can be said of Gideon and Zoe. Their first sexual encounter is rough. The way Gideon treats Zoe isn’t the loving, caring, sweet sex you’d expect a man who cares so much to give his virgin lover. Zoe’s OK with that. Because she’ll take Gideon any way she can get him or because she genuinely likes it? It’s hard to say…probably some of both. The entire course of the book these two struggle. It’s not a clean and easy rode to their happily
ever after.

Personally, I like that this book, and the series, has not been full of politically correct romance and characters. It’s refreshing to read something with an entirely different angle to it. I will admit, it’s harder to identify with the characters but maybe we don’t always need to the rote hero and heroine of typical romance novels. I suspect far more real life relationships work like Gideon and Zoe’s than the Cinderella stories we love so much. I get tired of stories where some little, silly misunderstanding is all the challenge the beautiful heroine and Alpha-
but-caring hero must overcome.

reviewed by Jem Stone

WOW! Quite an emotional story! This was my first Motor City Royals book, but NOT the first by this author! I had no trouble following the storyline even though this is the 3rd book in the series. Having said that, I would very much like to read the entire series.

Is this a somewhat dark story? Is there a lot of tension and drama? Does Gideon treat Zoe in a manner that is both insensitive, overbearing and sometimes rough? Does he, at times, feel so worthless that he doesn't expect any better of himself? And Zoe, does she see Gideon as someone who is holding her back, or as someone who just wants to protect her? This is not a happy-go-lucky romance. These two characters live in a gritty world. They come from very broken pasts.

Although quite a bit of the book details their struggles both in their relationship with one another and within themselves, with each struggling through their own insecurities and self doubts, in the end they both realize how much they complete one another. It's a very beautiful moment when that happens. I think that's the surprise of this story, that two very broken people can heal and accept that they deserve happiness, deserve each other.

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing me with a free copy for an honest review.

I was given ARC copy in exchange for an honest review by Netgalley and Loveswept .The chemistry between Gideon and Zoe is so intense it just leap off the page.
A MUST READ!!!!!

I want to start off by saying I love Ms. Ashenden’s books and I have read a lot of them. Unfortunately, this one I did not and I was looking forward to Gideon’s story. Gideon’s treatment of Zoe was insensitive. Normally Ms. Ashenden’s females are very strong but I did not find that with Zoe. Everyone treats her as a child and she stays childlike which brings me to what really bothered me about the story. It was uncomfortable. Being out of your comfort zone is okay, it just did not work for me in this story. That being said, Ms. Ashenden’s books are extremely well written and you fall right into the characters.

**My thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

I really liked this book and have been waiting to read Gideon and Zoe's story.

Yes they are foster brother and sister, so as long as you can get over that then you should have no problems reading this book. It's a little on the dark side and there are explicit sex details, but if you have read books from this author then you already know this.

We get a lot of internal dialogue from both characters as they struggle with their changing relationship and the threat to their way of life. We see a little of the characters from the previous book, however they play a more minor role this time round.

Glad that i had the change to review this book which is the last in this series.