Stories Book The Eighth Doctor Adventures [Books] The Adventuress of Henrietta Street 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes 2 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. Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Eighth Doctor Fitz Kreiner Sabbath Dei First Appearance The Mal'akh First Appearance Anji Kapoor Show All Characters (5) How to read The Adventuress of Henrietta Street: Books The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 4 February 2025 · 112 words Review by greenLetterT 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 Like Liked 0 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 Link to Quote Favourite 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. — The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Show All Quotes (2) Open in new window