Skip to content
TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Monday, November 5, 2001

Written by

Lawrence Miles

Pages

284

Time Travel

Past

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Vampires

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, London

Synopsis

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.

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.

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.

And then there was Scarlette's accomplice, the "elemental champion" who stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor.

Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat

Edit date completed

Characters

How to read The Adventuress of Henrietta Street:

Reviews

Add Review Edit Review

1 review

Lawrence Miles is an Ideas Guy. He shows you an idea and says "pretty cool, right?" and you have to agree that yeah!, it's pretty cool.

Unfortunately his ability to write a story that doesn't annoy me is somewhat lacking. I couldn't say exactly what it is, but The Adventuress of Henrietta Street struck me as far too smug for its own good. It *thinks* it's much cleverer than it is, in a way that reduces a "fairly alright" plot to "irritating". Plus, he seemed to have just forgotten about Anji. I know the format meant the Doctor's companions weren't really the focus, but even compared to Fitz she just wasn't present


greenLetterT

View profile


Open in new window

Statistics

AVG. Rating217 members
3.86 / 5

GoodReads

AVG. Rating217 votes
3.86 / 5

Member Statistics

Read

33

Favourited

5

Reviewed

1

Saved

6

Skipped

1

Owned

3

Quotes

Add Quote

DOCTOR: I'd say it should take me about... ohhh... three thousand years. Less, if I could find a way of stopping myself getting distracted.

SCARLETTE: Three thousand years. To become a creature of pure light.

DOCTOR: I'm trying to decide whether it'd be worth the bother.

Open in new window