I am so glad this is available in one mass volume. I'm not the biggest fan of the short serial books. Most of these stories are 50-60 pages and until we get to a new character and time jump I don't get it. But when reading all at once, for a readathon, oddly made me feel more accomplished. This was such an interesting look into the Sith, especially as they carve their own path, separate from everything else known in the universe. It takes place over roughly three periods of time, spanning just over 1000 years (yeah, it takes a big jump at one point). I really liked the characters, and how different each could be. The biggest downfall was the last book. If just felt too unpolished and a bit all over the place. And I didn't like any of those characters introduced in it. But otherwise, this was very good and engaging.

This is my first foray into the time period of the Old Republic. I couldn’t stop thinking about how technology in the Star Wars universe hasn’t evolved much from this time, 5000 years before “A New Hope”. Hyperdrive, lightsabers, holograms, and blasters all seem to exist at this time. How could civilization be so stagnant for 5000 years that there haven’t been many advances? I may be missing pieces of the puzzle.

Had a lot of trouble getting into this. It was an interesting idea, but I just really had trouble with the narrative.

This book was a small collection of stories about the Sith. I actually enjoyed reading this one. The Sith have always been a mystery to me. They showed up in Phantom Menace and I really didn't know anything other than they were dark style jedi'esk beings. Its nice to finally have a little background.

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After the first story I was very skeptical about how exactly they were going to pull of star wars without stars or wars but this book pulled it off. Despite the jumps in the timeline the book is engaging and the characters are fantastic. I look forward to reading the Fate of the Jedi series to see what happens to the Tribe next.

The basic reasoning behind why these stories were written certainly makes readers want to read this series of short stories. However, this book fell a little flat for me because it was hard for me to connect with many of the stories before they ended. Such is the nature of short stories.

I did not expect to love this book, but it sucked me right in. I am a light-sider all the way, but somehow watching these horrible people try to out-maneuver each other was just fascinating (and often really entertaining). A few of the people were just less bad enough that I'd start to root for them. Good on you, John Jackson Miller.

My favorite stories were probably the Orielle/Jelph pair, but I enjoyed the multi-generational saga, seeing how people's actions shaped the later society, and how the story tied into the comics I'd already read (Tales of the Jedi and Knights of the Old Republic).

3/5 Reading chronologically through Legends, this is vastly different from Dawn of the Jedi, and, really, any other Star Wars novel there is; probably because it isn't one. Short stories tell the story of a Lost Tribe, spanning not only decades, but millennia. The real protagonists here are the Sith, the natives, and the planet where all this is set in.

An interesting concept, and if you don't know Fate of the Jedi as I don't yet you wouldn't suspect it to be written solely for that. It's fun to see protagonists from early chapters succumb to distorted legends in the later ones. The final chapter is well over a hundred pages and definitely the best of the bunch, followed by the one before (and the one before...). There's so much fun in a book which gradually gets more dynamic in quality, even if it's just subtle improvings. The second half of the book is undoubtely good fun, even if not really emotional.

I have also read the Tales of the Jedi comics somewhat preceding the events (but not really referenced) and found them to be dead-boring, but who knows, maybe the comics of Lost Tribe are a better read. In my opinion, sometimes it's more fun to have events remain a mystery, not have them told in detail.

Would I recommend this book? To a die-hard Star Wars EU fan, yes. Otherwise, mh, not necessarily. Its isolated nature obviously makes it feel very cut off (and the Fate of the jedi novels referring to this take place long after too), which is refreshing, but the reason why this book really has only its own ideas to prove its usefulness (...ignoring FotJ). The prose isn't mindblowing, and neither are the characters. But it works, and so do they.

For reference, my vague ranking of read SW novels so far (not so far in the past), this being on #4:

1. Cloak of Deception (4/5)
2. Rogue Planet (3.5/5)
3. Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void (3.5/5)
4. Lost Tribe of the Sith (3/5)