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

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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

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IRISH WRATH (Kerrigan Mafia 4) by Savannah Rylan-review

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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

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Irish Oath / Irish Crown/Irish Blood by Savannah Rylan-reviews

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Irish Oath / Irish Crown / Irish Blood (Kerrigan Mafia 1, 2 & 3) by Savannah Rylan-reviews

IRISH OATH
(Kerrigan Mafia 1)
by Savannah Rylan
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, Mafia, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 10, 2026

They buried me fifteen years ago.

I let them.

My family and the Kerrigans were supposed to become one empire. Their heir would marry a Madigan daughter, and two crime families would run as one. I was the daughter. Then someone burned my whole world down to stop that wedding, and being a Madigan became a death sentence for anyone who got close to my name.

So I stayed dead. New name. Quiet bar in Chicago. Good locks on every door. Because the day a living Madigan walks back into a Kerrigan’s life, the arrangement looks real again, and everyone I love ends up the way my family did.

Then they found me.

Tiernan chased my family’s name across the world to get to me.

Ronan, the heir, the only Kerrigan by blood, looked at me like he already knew. The man I was promised to before I had any say.

And Cormac clocked my lie before I poured his first drink. He’s the one holding himself back like touching me would cost him something. Maybe it would.

I should have run. It’s the one thing I’m good at.

I let them take me home instead.

I was promised to one of them. I’m falling for all three. And someone out there still wants every Madigan in the ground.

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REVIEW: IRISH OATH is the first instalment in Savannah Rylan’s contemporary, adult KERRIGAN MAFIA why choose, reverse harem Irish Mafia romance series focusing on the Kerrigan brothers Ronan, Tiernan and Cormac, and bar owner Sienna Madigan.

Told from four first person perspectives (Ronan, Tiernan, Cormac and Sienna) IRISH OATH introduces the backstories and players in the world of the Kerrigan Mafia. 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.

The world building follows the hunt for the truth as the foursome battle the odds and search through the clues. At every turn , someone is targeting our story line heroine, but the years of accumulated betrayal and lies has manifest in the ultimate crime.

The relationship between Sienna and the brothers begins acrimoniously as our heroine as always believed the Kerrigan Crime family was guilty or complicit in the death of her parents but the brothers will produce their proof of innocence, as Sienna begins to uncover the clues and evidence her father left behind. Ronan has always believed Sienna was the woman promised at birth but Sienna is about to discover that all three men are worthy of forever. The $ex scenes are passionate, yet mostly implied, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters are limited as the majority of the story line focuses on the building of suspense, backstories, histories and evidence pointing towards a familiar face.

IRISH OATH is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family and loss, relationships and growing love. The character driven premise is dramatic and edgy; the romance differs between each couple; the characters are desperate, determined and tenacious. IRISH OATH ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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IRISH CROWN
(Kerrigan Mafia 2)
by Savannah Rylan
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, Mafia, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 22, 2026

The man who taught me everything is alive.
He’s always been alive.
And he wants me married to the Kerrigan heir.

The arrangement my father signed should have burned with the rest of my family. It didn’t. Now the man behind it has crawled out of fifteen years of dark to collect, and he’s certain every move I’ve ever made was one he set up for me.

The groom. The vows. The whole performance.

Fine. He’ll get his wedding.

Ronan stands across from me as the groom, the only true Kerrigan in a house full of men who’d burn for the name. Tiernan, close enough to wreck me. Cormac, working every exit, refusing to look at me the one time I need him to.

One of them is the groom.
All three of them are mine.

He thinks I’m walking into this with no way out.

He’s never seen what I do when someone tries to take my choice from me.

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REVIEW: IRISH CROWN is the second instalment in Savannah Rylan’s contemporary, adult KERRIGAN MAFIA why choose, reverse harem Irish Mafia romance series focusing on the Kerrigan brothers Ronan, Tiernan and Cormac, and bar owner Sienna Madigan. IRISH CROWN 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 one IRISH OATH.

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.

Told from four first person perspectives (Ronan, Tiernan,Cormac and Sienna) IRISH CROWN focuses on the promise, the unwritten contract meant to merge the Madison and Kerrigan Irish Crime Families-an heir from one house was to marry the heir from another but a deadly betrayal would push the families apart. With Sienna’s return to Ireland, and with the help of the Kerrigan brothers, the foursome would continue their deep dive into the past to uncover the who and why. An arranged marriage is about to come to fruition, and with it, the revelation of the truth, and forty years of friendships and betrayals will surface to the top.

The world building is complex and detailed using figurative language, metaphors, and idioms adding color and idiomatic expressions as the family hunts for the truth. Doors are meant to be opened, threads are meant to be pulled, pathways walked where others have walked before.

The relationship between Sienna and the brothers continues to be passionate and intense. As the eldest, Ronan has been promised to Sienna but Sienna loves each man equally although Cormac is slower to accept than the rest.

The secondary and supporting characters include ghosts from the past, some thought to be dead, while others thought to be family and friends including Sienna’s father’s right hand man Eamon Brennan and crime lord Lorca Doyle.

IRISH CROWN is another story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, obsession and madness, acceptance and love.The character driven premise is a dramatic narrative of internal thoughts and suppositions; the characters are desperate and determined; the romance is limited but fated and edgy. IRISH CROWN ends on a bit of a cliff hanger-your have been warned.

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IRISH BLOOD
(Kerrigan Mafia 3)
by Savannah Rylan
Genre: adult, contemporary, dark, Mafia, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 5, 2026

Three men chose me. Two of them share my bed.

The third has watched me from behind a shut door since the night I walked in bleeding. He has wanted me every night since. He has never once reached, and I have never once knocked.

That door is about to open. All the way.

For the first time since I was fifteen, I have a home. Ronan, who holds my whole weight like it’s nothing. Tiernan, who talks me out of my own head and never stops. And Cormac, down the hall, with the lamp still burning. The war is won, and still I stand in my warm kitchen at four in the morning, counting the exits. Nobody warns you that when the running ends, you’re a woman with nothing to be afraid of and no idea what to do with her hands.

Then a photograph arrives before dawn. A stolen boy on a ferry. On his shoulder, a hand that walked out of my family’s fire and was never charged.

The man who holds him isn’t Doyle. Doyle killed for meaning. Fearghal Mahon invoices. He doesn’t want the boy. He wants what the boy is worth, and he’s patient, and he’s cheap, and he’s the first hunter I’ve ever met who reads people the way I do.
I can’t outplay him. The boy in that box is me at fifteen, back to a wall, counting exits. The only way to reach a child who trusts no warm room is to finally walk all the way into mine. All three doors. Even the one that never opens.

Especially that one.

It’s the whole door or the cold.

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REVIEW: IRISH BLOOD is the third 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 BLOOD 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 one IRISH CROWN

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

Told from four first person perspectives (Ronan, Tiernan, Cormac and Sienna) IRISH BLOOD focuses on the continuing relationship between Sienna Madigan-Kerrigan, and the men whom she loves. As part of the family contract, Ronan and Sienna were promised to one another as children, and Ronan is determined to see it through. Married to Ronan but in love with all three, Sienna finds herself at peace until a photograph of a young fifteen year old boy threatens all sense of happiness. Meant to be a pawn in exchange for a powerful crime world folio, the young boy with connections to the past, finds himself on the run, hiding in plain sight as the Madigan-Kerrigan family struggle to keep him safe.

The world building, once again, is complex and comprehensive using figurative language, analogies, contemplation and locutions adding color and internal dialogue as the family hunts for a missing boy and the people who have made him a pawn. Doors, both figurative and real are left open to welcome a fifteen-year old young man looking for a safe landing but trust must be earned, and the family is no longer confident in their conviction to save what does not want to be saved.

The relationship between Sienna and Ronan, Tiernan, Cormac is a why-choose, reverse harem in which Sienna loves all three, and all three in return. Cormac is the quiet one, the ‘door’ who sees all and the last man to take what is freely offered. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative.

The secondary and supporting characters are limited as we are reintroduced to Eamon Brennan, a man who has been controlled by someone else but a man who is about to lose everything he once loved; fifteen-year old Oisin, Cathal Mulryan, and Mahon. Desperate men behave desperately, and a fifteen-year old will pay the price.

IRISH BLOOD is another story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dark, dramatic and edgy, but more of a written narrative of reflection and introspection as the four main leads search within for the truth. The characters are desperate, determined and controlled; the romance is seductive and spicy. IRISH BLOOD does not end on a happily ever after or a cliff hanger but a sense of loss and a need to move forward.

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Reviews by Sandy

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