DEADLY ALOHA (RBMC: OAHU, HAWAII 1) by Elise Gedicke-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 25, 2025

Aloiki Ka’ana’ana lives life to the women, waves, and whiskey. But when Elrik Jameson calls in a favor, he has no choice but to ride with the Royal Bastards to hunt down the Bloody Scorpions. The last person he expects to find in their clutches is Lu, the woman he once nearly claimed as his own.

Aloiki will do anything to protect his paradise, especially when that paradise is the woman who got away.

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REVIEW: DEADLY ALOHA is the first instalment in Elise Gedicke’s contemporary, adult RBMC: OAHU, HAWAII dark, erotic, MC romance series, a part of the multi-authored RBMC series. This is president of the RBMC: OAHU Aloiki Ka’ana’ana, and Lu’s story line.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE MANY triggers for more sensitive readers. Some of the characters (Mal and Holly) were first introduced in the author’s VENGEANCE OF CHILDHOOD PROPORTIONS, a part of the TILL DEATH DO US PART collection.

The author includes a formulary of Hawaiian vernacular and terms.

Told from first person perspective (Aloiki) with a chapter or two from Lu, DEADLY ALOHA follows the search for Lu’s best friend Nishi, and the arrival of the Bloody Scorpions MC to the Hawaiian Islands. A call from the RBMC National President Jameson pulled Aloiki Ka’ana’ana into a life he did not want. A surfer by day, porn star and producer by night Aloiki left the MC life five years earlier but a favor, more like a demand, by Jameson meant Aloiki found himself in need of help, and a new chapter of the RBMC was formed but Aloiki never expected to find the woman he once loved, a woman who walked away without looking back. The Bloody Scorpions not only were dealing in drugs but human trafficking as well, and Lu set herself up as a target to save her friend who may not survive.

The world building is descriptive, dark, and graphic as Aloiki is determined to prove he is charge. Betrayal comes at a cost; punishment is painful and deadly when Aloiki metes out discipline, torture, and often forfeiture of life.

The relationship between Aloiki and Lu is one of second chances. Both Aloiki and Lu are hypersexual, often participating in voyeurism, exhibitionism, rough and questionable sex acts. Aloiki is determined to reclaim Lu as his own but our heroine is struggling with past betrayal and the need to find her missing friend. The $ex scenes are provocative, aggressive and unconventional.

There is a large and diverse ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters as Aloiki begins to amass a brotherhood for the newly established RBMC: Oahu,as well as several members of the RBMC National Chapter, Bloody Scorpions, and the animated and distinct personalities of the new membership of the RBMC.

DEADLY ALOHA is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, grief and loss, family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is dramatic, dark, edgy and gritty; the romance is limited; the characters are atypical, eccentric, and charismatic.

HEED the TRIGGER warnings-they are numerous and graphic.

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Reviewed by Sandy