Ok so it's only been two days since my last post but I finished the series (well the free ones anyway). I'm probably going to go ahead and pay the $4.99 to get the ending.
Let me just say, I am impressed with this series. Jinglehimer-Schmidt did a great job and was better than I expected. I am excited to read other books that he wrote.
Paragon: This is told from a Sith woman, Sheelah's, point of view. She was married to the tribe leader's brother before the leader killed him and took her as his own. This is 15 years after they land on Kesh. They have made the Keshiri people submissive and Sheelah is in charge of purging the tribe from all those she deems unfit to uphold the standards that she set for the tribe. She wants the tribe to be beautiful and strong so anyone with the wrong skin color or deformities has got to go. She ends up killing a bunch of these Sith. These Sith also started poisoning the Keshiri people and the woman from the second book catches on and plots an overthrow.
Savior: Sheelah plots to overthrow her husband (Korsin) at the same time that the Keshiri are plotting to overthrow the Sith. Korsin succeeds in killing Sheelah's son, his stepson, but not before he is mortally wounded. His daughter takes over the thrown and banishes her mother, Sheelah. Adari, a Keshiri from the second book, leads a revolt but fails and ends up on a secluded beach. We never hear about her again.
Purgatory and Sentinel: These two novellas follow the story of Ori and Jelph a millennial after the Sith landed on Kesh. The tribe is strong and flourishing. Ori is the daughter of a Sith High Lord and Jelph is a slave. Ori and her mother get framed for attempted assassination and Ori runs away to safety with Jelph. When he goes on a hunting expedition, she is visited by the new High Lords and her lightsaber is taken. In an act of rage she starts to tear apart Jelph's barn and discovers he is hiding a starfighter. She runs off to tell the High Lords and regain her place in Sith scoiety. Jelph returns and it is revealed that he is a Jedi. Dum Dum Dum!!!! He accidentally landed on Kesh and discovered the Sith. He was fixing his starfighter to return to the galaxy. He runs after Ori but is too late. She has already told the Lords and they discover the starfighter. The High Lord tries to take off in it and blows it up. Jelph and Ori run away to the jungle on Kesh and we don't hear about them again.
Pantheon: The last e-book that was free. It is another millennial after the starfighter blew up. The Sith have started to destroy themselves with all of the in-fighting for power. There are multiple sects fighting for power. Eight days before Testament Day, when Korsin's last will and testament is read aloud, leaders from many sects come to the temple and try to convince Hilts, the dude who keeps all the records, to change the testament to support one or another faction. He can't because it is a recorded hologram. He plays the Hologram for the leaders of the factions and then they discover that there is a recording underneath that was never supposed to be seen. It is from the original Sith Lord that sent Korsin and the Sith on the mission that led them to crash land on Kesh. The tribe realizes that they are not the only tribe, but a lost tribe, once made of slaves. This leads to total destruction, with the tribe trying to kill everyone and themselves. In order to save the tribe, Hilts decides to go to the Omen, the ship Korsin and crew came in on and see if there is "power behind the throne" as Korsin said in his testament that can save the tribe.
Of course this is not the end. I am excited to read how this series ends, if Miller brings back in the people that ran away or were stranded. I don't think so but I would be interested to find out how he is going to end this. So far I like what I have read and am excited to read Knight Errant that he also wrote. I'll keep you posted.
UPDATE: The eighth book and finale are not due out until July 2012!! This is no bueno
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