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A review by sheyri
Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories by John Jackson Miller
4.0
3.5, rounded up
TW:
Rating per short story:
Precipice: 3 stars
Skyborn: 3 stars
Paragon: 3 stars
Savior: 3 stars
Purgatory: 4 stars
Sentinel: 2.5 stars
Pantheon: 4 stars
Secrets: 3.5 stars
Pandemonium: 4 stars
The book is roughly structured in three "generations".
The first (Precipice to Saviour) sets up the whole thing and gives us the first couple years from when the Sith crash on Kesh to taking over the native population. It was good enough, nothing special, but not bad either.
The next generation (Purgatory and Sentinel) are set a thousand years later, in the middle of political intrigue. I rather liked Purgatory, it was a nice little story. Sentinel was just meh. Too fast, so a lot wasn't set up very well.
The last (Pantheon to Pandemonium) was my favourite part, yet again a thousand years later. It sorted out the chaos of the previous years and then set off to do some new exploring!
Of course, those are stories about Sith. They're obviously not the nicest of people. But it was interesting to read about a Sith society. That is also completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy.
TW:
Spoiler
murder, oppression, slaveryRating per short story:
Precipice: 3 stars
Skyborn: 3 stars
Paragon: 3 stars
Savior: 3 stars
Purgatory: 4 stars
Sentinel: 2.5 stars
Pantheon: 4 stars
Secrets: 3.5 stars
Pandemonium: 4 stars
The book is roughly structured in three "generations".
The first (Precipice to Saviour) sets up the whole thing and gives us the first couple years from when the Sith crash on Kesh to taking over the native population. It was good enough, nothing special, but not bad either.
The next generation (Purgatory and Sentinel) are set a thousand years later, in the middle of political intrigue. I rather liked Purgatory, it was a nice little story. Sentinel was just meh. Too fast, so a lot wasn't set up very well.
Spoiler
Why did Ori change sides? Because Jelph told her she could be a Jedi? In which universe does that make sense?The last (Pantheon to Pandemonium) was my favourite part, yet again a thousand years later. It sorted out the chaos of the previous years and then set off to do some new exploring!
Of course, those are stories about Sith. They're obviously not the nicest of people. But it was interesting to read about a Sith society. That is also completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy.