MAFIA WARS (Young Irish Rebels prequel) by Vi Carter-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 5, 2025
I’m the villain in most people’s stories.
Ruthless, wealthy—the O’Reagan name demands respect. No one would ever call me reckless. But when I discover my maid, Luna, bearing bruises left by her so-called boyfriend, I snap.
There’s a fragile beauty to her innocence, and her vulnerability does something to me I can’t ignore.
So I take matters—and the law—into my own hands.
In broad daylight, I walk right up to her boyfriend and pull the trigger, ending his life and starting a war I hadn’t anticipated.
He was the son of a powerful gangster, a man who wants Luna back and vengeance for his son’s death. But he’s getting neither. Luna is mine now. And I’ll scorch the earth to keep her.
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REVIEW: MAFIA WARS is the prequel instalment in Vi Carter’s contemporary, adult YOUNG IRISH REBELS Mafia romance series. This is Irish Mafia heir Cian O’Reagan, and Luna Tobin’s story line.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Cian and Luna) MAFIA WARS follows in the aftermath of the murder of Luna’s boyfriend Mark Fitzsimons. Years earlier, Luna Tobin ran when to escape a home life that threatened her freedom but having jumped from the proverbial frying pan into the fire, Luna found herself in a precarious position with a man whose temperament changed, and not for the better. On her first day of work as a cleaning person for the Irish mob, Luna’s boss seeks vengeance for the bruises on our story line heroine, vengeance that will pull the family into a gangland war but Luna struggles with the guilt, and offers herself up as collateral damage.
The world building is fast and furious as we are up close and personal as the family must come to terms with what happened and why. Cian exacted revenge for the abuse against our story line heroine but his revenge will come at a cost to the Irish mob.
The relationship between Cian and Luna is quick to develop as Luna finds herself a ‘target’ of our story line hero. From the outset, Cian is intrigued, interested and protective of our story line heroine, a woman who is a little TSTL in the face of a potential war. The $ex scenes are limited but impassioned.
We are introduced to Cian’s extended family including Cian’s father, uncle Liam, uncle Finn, cousin Jack and nan Eileen; Mark, and Richard Fitzsimons.
MAFIA WARS is a fast paced story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, obsession, relationships and family that introduces some of the players and backstory for the Young Irish Rebels.. The premise is captivating and engaging; the romance is limited but intense; the characters are determined and desperate.
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Reviewed by Sandy
