REVIEW: Consquences by Abrianna Denae & Leigh Kenzie (Crimson Bonds #4)

CONSEQUENCES

Crimson Bonds - Book Four

by Abrianna Denae & Leigh Kenzie

Release Date: August 7, 2025

Review

An amazing series - but also the most anxiety-inducing one I’ve ever read. The chase to find the bosses and figure out who’s after them, the shifting loyalties, broken hearts, new loves - all of it twisting and spiralling, and you get so many different perspectives, meaning you feel everyone’s emotions.

Seriously, I need a drink to even open each book!

And I still don’t know how I feel about the blending of the two families - I mean, I love that they are finding their people (all over the place), but then I worry about the families losing themselves, but also, I want to see them all in one big cuddle pile. I’m super curious to see how Abrianna and Leigh sort it all out at the end. Though I feel like I need them to slip me a spoiler before I completely spiral. LOL

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Synopsis

Family.

Mafia Bosses Allesandro Martelli and Cristian Amato are once again at the helm of their Families. Being kidnapped should have been the worst part of the plot against them, but as they settle back into their roles, not everything is as clear as it once was.

What should be an easy transition back into power turns into a battle of trusting themselves, and each other, to save the foundations they fought and almost died for.

Loyalty.

With their hearts and lives on the line, both the Families and the Bosses need to prove that while connections might have formed between them, nothing is more important than the vows they previously made.

Amato or Martelli. One or the other—never both.

Faced with the consequences of their actions, both the Amato and Martelli Families try separating their needs and desire from their trust and loyalty. Except, falling back into the status quo may not be the solution everyone believes it to be.

Ruin.

The Families must decide if an alliance forged through desperation and blood is enough to carry them through to the end, or risk their true enemy reducing them to nothing but ash…

Consequences is book 4 in the Crimson Bonds series and ends on a cliffhanger. All books in this series must be read in order. This is a dark MM and MMM+ story with various pairings and relationships. Please see inside for the full list of TWs.

This is an Amato Family (All's Fair Series by Abrianna Denae) and Martelli Family (Vendetta series by Leigh Kenzie) crossover. This is not a standalone story. At least one of the series, Vendetta or All’s Fair, needs to be read first to truly understand the dynamics of this story.

About Abrianna Denae

Abrianna Denae is a queer author living in Northern California. An English major, they have always had a passion for writing.

Deciding to sit down and write one of the many stories that had plagued their mind for years was the easy part—finding the time to do it was a different story.

Caffeine is their best friend, and sleep is their worst enemy.

A lover of books that make the reader feel something, Abrianna tries to incorporate as much of their real-world views and feelings into their stories as they can.

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About Leigh Kenzie

Leigh is a dark M/M romance author from Texas who writes villains of varying degrees. She considers coffee a major food group and her family fears broken coffeemakers. She writes in her spare time, forced to the keyboard by characters entirely too vocal in her opinion and often falls victim to plot monkeys. In between creating mayhem with her characters and friends, her hope is to transport readers to fictional places and provide darkness with a twist.

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