In my humble opinion I think this is the best part of the Tales of the Jedi stories. While Kevin J. Anderson seems to be the only scriptwriter working on the script now we still see that his script is influenced by his earlier cooperation with fellow scriptwriter Tom Veitch on TOTJ and that he uses characters and places Veitch wrote into existence into the EU and that both of them contributed to fleshing out the expanded universe and giving other scriptwriters more material to work on when they wrote EU stories or made roleplaying games and video games.
What was once considered a golden era of the Jedi, following the destruction and scattering of the Sith Empire (Its remnants were retconned later to be in hiding an reorganized before returning in the TOR era) with the Sith seemingly ceasing to be a major threat and opposition to the Jedi with only isolated pockets of Sith cults to be contained on planets like Onderon and mostly having to deal with small wars and criminals, is abruptly ended with Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma creating their own powerful Sith organization and starting a major war in the galaxies that would affect the galaxy and the Republic for years and setting the stage for new Sith organizations to rise.
One of the main highlights here are the introduction of the Mandalorians, a warrior organization who despite not able to use the Force are nonetheless are force to be reckoned with and that it sets the stage for further use of the Mandalorians in the EU by other scriptwriters like those working on the KOTOR era.
While critics may have a point that the story seems too rushed and chaotic, Veitch and Anderson can only do so much with a few issues and that other scriptwriters may exploit the plotholes in their work.
Hugh Fleming's cover art in TOTJ is still as impressive as earlier cover art I've seen from him while working on TOTJ.
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