IRISH WRATH (Kerrigan Mafia 4) by Savannah Rylan-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 20, 2026
For the first time in my life, I wasn’t running.
I had a home on the west coast of Ireland and three men who loved me. Then somebody put a price on it all.
No guns and no demands. Just a letter on expensive paper, naming a number for everything my family runs in this county, right down to my father’s folio, a book of secrets that could hang half the powerful men in Ireland. The money behind the letter is so far away it doesn’t have a face. It buys what it wants, and everyone knows what happens to families who refuse to sell.
We refused. This family has buried every enemy that ever came at it with a gun. Nobody ever came at it like this. Now houses are burning and people we love are being taken, and there’s nobody to fight, because you can’t put a bullet in a bank account.
But they made one mistake when they priced this family. They forgot to count the men.
Ronan hasn’t slept a full night since the letter came. He runs this county, and the last man who forgot that went into the sea. This enemy doesn’t have a body, and it’s driving him somewhere I can’t follow.
Tiernan keeps the whole house fed and laughing like nothing’s wrong. He looks like the harmless one, but he’ll kill you the moment you cross me.
And Cormac, the quiet one, sits up with the numbers night after night, closer to me than he’s ever let himself sit. He’s given me every hour he has for years and never asked for one thing back.
He’s about to ask.
The last time my world burned, I was fifteen. I ran for fifteen years under a name that wasn’t mine, and these men are the reason I stopped. They hold me like I’m the only thing in Ireland not for sale, and every night they prove it.
So the money can send its letters and its hired hands. It can come for everything we own. It can’t have my men, and it can’t have me. Nothing here is for sale
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REVIEW: IRISH WRATH is the fourth 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 WRATH 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 three IRISH BLOOD. I recommend reading the series in order as there is an ongoing premise and conflict throughout.
SOME BACKGROUND: Approximately fifteen 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 is about to become.
NOTE: If you have not read the previous instalments, there may be spoilers in my review. IRISH WRATH advances 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 intersecting paths, IRISH WRATH remains focused on the search for a missing teen who does not want to be found, and the apprehension and uncertainty surrounding a folio listing the sins of Ireland’s criminal underworld. As the foursome struggle with threats and an impending war with the families listed in her father’s folio, Sienna takes charge of the men with whom she has fallen in love but a missing teen will become a pawn between the players in the game, and in the end, no one will win if secrets are revealed.
Once again, the world building is complex and comprehensive using figurative and metaphorically designated language, correlations, and reflection adding internal dialogue as the family hunts for a missing boy and the people who have continued to make him a pawn. Doors, walls and sight, both figurative and real, are now used as turning points and questionable positions because to do nothing means possible death, and to act, may mean the end of everyone.
The relationship between Sienna and Ronan, Tiernan and Cormac continues to grow; to blossom into a tightly woven fabric that if pulled could unravel in the wake of feeling lost. Their hands are symbolically tied as a faceless enemy continues to pull at that string in the hopes of taking control from the people in charge. The $ex scenes are provocative, intimate and desperate.
There is a large ensemble cast of questionable, purposeful and dangerous secondary and supporting characters some of whom we met in the previous instalment. Betrayal comes from within as the foursome are always one step and one second out of the loop that is closing tighter with every action.
IRISH WRATH is another story of power and control, secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, desperation and violence. The character driven premise is detailed, complex, dramatic but continues to be more of a written narrative of reflection and introspection as the four main leads battle between head and heart; the romance is edgy and possessive; the characters are desperate, tenacious and resolute. IRISH WRATH does not end on a cliff hanger or HEA but ends with unresolved betrayals and a teen on the run.
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Reviewed by Sandy
