IRISH REIGN (Kerrigan Mafia 5) by Savannah Rylan-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 4, 2026

Every criminal in Ireland wants what I’m holding.

In five weeks, I’m burning it in front of them. My father’s folio, three hundred pages of secrets that kept me alive and priced. When it’s ash there’ll be nothing left to buy, and the last war for the Madigan name ends on the ground where it started.

But the folio was never the most dangerous thing I own.

That would be my three men.

Ronan, my husband. He’s raising a hall on my family’s burned ground out of stone the county’s feuds tore down, because he decided our wedding would happen there, and that man has never once failed to hold what he builds. The county calls him the wall. The wall sleeps with his body between me and the door.

Tiernan, who fed half of Clare into loving me one kitchen at a time, who talks me apart in the dark and calls it conversation. He’s feeding three hundred at my wedding. He says the whole county’s coming. He says it like a threat, grinning.

And Cormac. Three years of after. Three years of a man holding himself one word away from me, keeping the account open on purpose. He’s drawn the contracts, priced the cords, planned every inch of it. He’s done waiting. God help anyone standing between that man and his wedding day.

Five weeks from now I marry all three of them in front of every house in Ireland, with a price on my head that goes up every time the folio doesn’t sell.

The market thinks the fire is a bluff. My men are counting the days until someone tests that.

I was promised to one of them. I married him. Now I’m marrying all of us. For good, for the record, forever.

Let them come to the wedding.

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REVIEW: IRISH REIGN is the fifth and final instalment in Savannah Rylan’s contemporary, adult KERRIGAN MAFIA dark, why choose, reverse harem Irish Mafia romance series focusing on the Kerrigan brothers -Ronan, Tiernan and Cormac, and bar owner Sienna Madigan. IRISH REIGN is the continuing story of our foursome, and should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book four IRISH WRATH. I recommend reading the series in order as there is an ongoing premise and conflict throughout.

SOME BACKGROUND: Approximately eighteen years earlier, a seven year old Sienna Madigan lost everything when her parents were murdered but escaping to America has come to an end when one of her former neighbors in Ireland, Tiernan Kerrigan, walks into her bar, and recognizes the girl he knew years before. A promise meant to merge the Kerrigan and Madigan crime families ended with the death of Sienna’s parents, and together with Ronan, Tiernan and Cormac, Sienna was about to dive deep into the world she never knew but a world of which she will become their queen.

NOTE: If you have not read the previous instalments, there may be spoilers in my review. IRISH WRATH and IRISH REIGN advance the series three years from Sienna’s return to her home country of Ireland.

Told from four first person perspectives (Ronan, Tiernan, Cormac and Sienna) following several intersecting paths IRISH REIGN picks up after the events of book four, and focuses on Sienna’s need to end the power vacuum her father held over the people she now calls neighbors and friends. Not everyone is happy with Sienna’s pronouncement, and those looking to influence and control by extortion and blackmail refuse to watch as the world burns.

Once again, similar to the previous instalments, the world building is complex, detailed and extensive. Using figurative imagery and language, correlations, and internal dialogue, the family intend to stop a war by setting fire to the past; to the extortion and blackmail used to keep the county quiet. Proverbial doors and walls , both figurative and real, are again used to take a stand against those taking aim

The relationship between Sienna, Ronan, Tiernan and Corma continues to be a why choose, reverse harem in which Sienna has fallen in love with all three men, and they in return. Each of the brothers has their own way of handling the world in which they have been thrust, and each has a different approach as it pertains to the woman they love. The $ex scenes are provocative and passionate.

There is a large ensemble cast of desperate and sometimes questionable secondary and supporting characters who would benefit greatly by the destruction of the past but not everyone is willing to let go, fearing reprisals with no benefit of proof. As the day approaches to set the past ablaze, the Madigan-Kerrigan family will be targeted in an effort to reclaim what doesn’t belong.

IRISH REIGN is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, secrets and destruction, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is multi-layered, elaborate, and dramatic but continues to be more of a written narrative of reflection and introspection as the four main leads battle for survival; the characters are entangled, determined, yet quietly headstrong and dangerous; the romance is provocative and seductive.

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Reviewed by Sandy