Forge of the Mind Slayers: The Blade of the Flame, Book 2 Review

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Forge of the Mind Slayers: The Blade of the Flame, Book 2 ReviewForge of the Mindlsayers by Tim Wagonner is the second of the Blade of the Flame series set in the world of Eberron. This installment picks up with the ex Assassin turned Priest of the Silver Flame Diran Bastiaan, and his half Orc companion Ghaji after they have defeated the ignominious Vampire Onkar (covered in the first book Thieves of blood). The pair are also joined by new companions Hinto, the halfling and Tresslar the aged Artificer.
The story begins with the group following Diran's calling to wipe out evil wherever they may find it. However, it is not long before they stir up the malicious interest of an ancient evil Lich. Diran and Ghaji also find themselves reacquainted with some old adversaries with whom they have some unfinished business.
The writing in this story is fairy tight. Events and places are fairly well articulated (although if I read the word "lupine" one more time I would have screamed) and his characters are fairly well fleshed out. Some may feel that the story wandered as in this series, unlike most Eberron trilogies, each story somewhat stands on its own. Second novels tend to be mere placeholders, and I found it refreshing that this novel was mostly a story unto itself.
This book also spent a fair amount of time filling in backstory on Diran and Ghaji. These stories not only embellished their characters a bit, but were also directly relevant to the ongoing story. This served character development well for Ghaji and Diran but at the expense of the additional companions (Hinto, tresslar), who remained fairly one dimensional.
The novel is paced well and the multiple antogonists was a nice touch. I also liked the inclusion of Diran's lover turned Vampire, Makala, as an interesting twist that certainly adds more to the story arc present and future. I wasn't too enthusiastic about the actual premise of the story, with the Kalashtar and the Forge. The Kalashtar character's motivations for an alliance didn't ring very true to me, and neither did the alliance of the three itself. On a side note, I am also getting a little weary of the Kalashtar, which are seemingly thrown into every eberron storyline at this point.
This was a decent novel, with its greatest strength being that it does stand alone, although there are certainly some things left for the last novel. I would have liked to see more character development for the other companions, though Diran and Ghaji are well defined, and they are worthwhile characters to follow in future novels. While the multiple plotlines were nice, they were not as ultimately compelling as they should have been.Forge of the Mind Slayers: The Blade of the Flame, Book 2 OverviewLiving in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaanand his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuffof nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Goodcould work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughoutthe archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but nonewere as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirateskidnaps Diran's former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), thepriest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countlessother abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are noordinary criminals; they're led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn servesa being unfathomably more evil than himself….

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