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)