Review: A Tangle of Obsidian

A Tangle of Obsidian by Lydia M. Hawke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Well, what can I say? Another great look into the world of Sorcerers, Nuns, and Methuselah. Yep you heard right, kick ass Nuns! And the main character is a 69-year-old Sister Monica, an ex-nun, and some of her sidekicks are Nuns in their 80s. Thank goodness there is hope for us olde phartes!

Her other sidekicks are a police officer and a transsexual named Phoenix.

This book kicked butt. It had it all: fights, misunderstandings, Evil Mages, an alien, and even treachery.

It's too difficult for me to explain what's going on, and if you're interested in this book, I suggest you get the first one so you can follow this one without getting annoyed by not knowing what's happening and why.

This is the second book in this trilogy, and the last book (which I have already pre-ordered) is called "A Confluence of Obsidian (The Obsidian Sisterhood Book 3)" and will be published November 18, 2025.

This was a fast read, and most likely you can be done in a day or a day and a half, depending on how much other stuff you've got going on!


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DESCRIPTION:"Chasing shadows and saving the world at the age of sixty-nine? Not on her bingo card. Former nun Sister Monica Barrett is the reluctant keeper of a stone that holds immense dark magick. She’d abandon it if she could, but it’s become attached to her—literally—and there are five more like it in the hands of powerful, corrupt Mages determined to control the very fabric of the world. Even if they destroy that world in the process.

Fortunately, Monica’s foes haven’t been able to find the one thing they need to help them tap into the stones’ powers—a mysterious being named Methuselah, who brought the fragments to Earth millennia before.
Unfortunately, neither has Monica.

On her a fractured secret sisterhood, an off-the-clock cop, and a tech-less tech whiz. On the enemy’s? Unlimited financial resources, their own dark magick, and a host of terrifying monsters.

The race to find Methuselah is on—and the entire planet hangs in the balance.