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Context Recap / EighthDoctorAdventuresTheAdventuressOfHenriettaStreet

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1	''On February 9, 1783, a funeral was held in the tunnels at the dead heart of London. It was the funeral of a warrior and a conjurer, a paladin and an oracle, the last of an ancient breed who’d once stood between the Earth and the bloodiest of its nightmares.''
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3	Her name was Scarlette. Part courtesan, part sorceress, this is her history: the part she played in the Siege of Henrietta Street, and the sacrifice she made in the defence of her world.
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5	In the year leading up to that funeral, something raw and primal ate its way through human society, from the streets of pre-Revolutionary Paris to the slave-states of America. Something that only the eighteenth century could have summoned, and against which the only line of defence was a bordello in Covent Garden.
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7	And then there was Scarlette’s accomplice, the ‘elemental champion’ who stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor.
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9	!!Tropes present in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' include:
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11	* AsleepForDays: The Doctor sleeps for a week after losing one of his hearts.
12	* BadBlackBarf: A symptom of the Doctor's illness. As his condition worsens, [[MonochromaticEyes his eyes turn black]] too.
13	* FictionalDocument: ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'', in a way, is one, since it's supposedly a piece of nonfiction involving the Doctor.
14	* GenreShift: This book was written to emulate a historical document, and reads quite unlike the rest of the series.
15	* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Juliette is an unusually young example; [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior she's only thirteen]]. It's implied she'd [[BungledSuicide attempted]] to hang [[DrivenToSuicide herself]], but not only did she not do it properly, [[InterruptedSuicide the Doctor showed up to rescue her]].
16	* MarshmallowHell: Lightly implied; Katya, whose buxomness is one of her defining characteristics, bids farewell to Fitz in such an affectionate manner he nearly suffocates.
17	* OldNewBorrowedAndBlue: The Doctor has to get married because it'll somehow save the world from extradimensional baboons. Fitz mentions it's too bad they can't bring the TARDIS into the chapel, because it would count as all four.
18	* PsychicSurgery: Some vague version of this happens to the Doctor, although the details/explanation are concealed by the semi-LemonyNarrator who basically admits he/she doesn't know exactly what happened.
19	* SickEpisode: The Doctor starts feeling a bit poorly at the beginning of the book, and things get really dramatic and life-threatening by the climax.
20	* SwitchingPOV: ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' largely averts this, being mostly narrated by an unnamed historian, but uses ScrapbookStory to get some of the same effect.
21	* ThisBedOfRoses: The Doctor, Fitz, and Anji are staying at Scarlette's brothel for most of the novel, and the young ladies working there help them to save the world from extradimensional apes and whatnot.

Context Recap / EighthDoctorAdventuresTheAdventuressOfHenriettaStreet