Lit The JC Lit Reviews Special: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: THE COLLECTED STORIES (spoilers)

Only halfway but it is intriguing to see the backstabbing

8.9 out of 10 so far

He's a new author to me, but I was very impressed!

9/10

Only 2 reviews? What the hell are you lot not doing posting here?

Oh well, onto business....

So many other writers could have taken on this project and royally screwed it up, either by making the Sith too vicious and so impossible to read about in any way that is enjoyable, or by being too sympathetic to them. It is testimony then to JJM's skills as a writer that he walks a razor fine line between either pitfall - he makes them vicious enough, with some truly nasty surprise acts, that you don't forget about Sith, yet neither are they so monstrous as to repulse the reader entirely.

At the same time, these 9 collected stories, have a truly soaring level of ambition - as they cover just over two thousand years, with the snapshots of the Sith at various points. The final tale, Pandemoium, brings it all back together and picks up the various pieces and coalesces them into a far more coherent whole.

In some respects, it is a shame that their final fate is to be cannon-fodder and cartoon villains in FOTJ - or that's what the majority of comments I've seen suggest.

Two things I especially liked:
The link to the Great Hyperspace War and the mention of Harbinger and Saes, that it also made Naga Sadow a more terrifying figure was good too.
The revelation the Jelph was a Jedi Agent of the Shadow Covenant! Now that's how the way to use continuity! It also continued JJM's revision of the Sith War into a much larger and far more devastating conflict.

9/10 - It's excellent stuff but they're still the bad guys, can't reward them for that! Now the upcoming Kenobi book however....

I'm giving this a 9. Great world building, prose and humor. JJM is a real gift to SW.

I'll give it a 9 as well.

I hope it's better than the bore fest that was Darth Plaguies

Look at the consistant scores of 9/10....

Yes, but i remember Plaguies getting good reviews as well. I must admit that i have wanted to read it since i heard about it.

I only bought it because it was backstory to FotJ, and I don't usually take to authors that I've never read before straight away! Without issuing spoilers, I was most pleasantly surprised both by the quality of the writing (I don't think that it's coincidence that JJM has been trusted to tell some of Obi-Wan's Tatooine story) and with the plotlines. To my mind, it's well worth a gamble!

Ok, i'm in!!

It is utterly excellent Greedo - and does not require you to go on and read FOTJ too!

It's also paperback, there are far worse ways to spend £5-6!

Is this book really hard to get, as it always seems to be unavailable on Amazon.com

Try checking if there's another version available.

There was a problem with Amazon not updating their original listing after the book got changed from a regular paperback to one of those flimsier trade paperback things, so your order might still be for the original book which now isn't coming out.

Cheers, thanks for the advice. Yeah, it is on my Amazon.com wishlist ... like you said, it might be an outdated version; I will have to check.

Try this ISBN Bib: 978-0-099-54294-0, though this is the UK version. There were quite a few games played on this one.

This was a top-notch book I really enjoyed.

I thought the writing and stories got better as new "chapters" were added. I read each story as it came out, and after I got the book, I went back and re-read those stories (it had been years since I initially ready some), In context of the larger whole, I liked those stories all the more.
I had some issues with the Knight Errant novel, but I thought the second half of book was really great. You can really see JJM grow as a writer in this series as well. I would not mind more of these type of collected anthologies, as long as they are done well. I think the single vision from one author of how this society progressed really helped, as opposed to the changing authors series that Del Rey has been utilizing for LOTF and FOTJ (that being said, I am among the seemingly few who liked both).

9.5/10

That serie of books was just amazing, as it always is with JJM. It shows us a new type of Sith, more human and less psychopath with a new setting that is Kesh and its mythology of the Destructors and the Protectors. It is a masterpiece, it is a well-written background to FOTJ, and it gives us an epic story to deal with. Plus, it links with the EU material such as the Great Hyperspace War, Crosscurrent and the Jedi Covenant (Kotor in fact). I won't spoil about Spiral but it sould be incorporated with the novels as it is the direct sequel. Anyway, every JJM's work is a masterpiece so I gadly recommend this book!

9,9/10