BASIC PLOT
The peacefulness of a resort in paradise is shattered by two opposing factions.

DOCTOR
Fifteenth.

COMPANIONS
Ruby Sunday.

MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT
Pg 15 An empty cul-de-sac off the main street, the Gardens of Kubuntu, Yewa, the far future.

PREPARATORY READING
None.

CONTINUITY REFERENCES
Pg 2 "No matter the situation, whether it be giant lobsters hell-bent on world domination, alien cosplayers or sentient playgrounds manned by robot children, his smile was always a comfort to her." Alien cosplayers appeared in Rogue. The other references are unrecorded.

Pg 3 "'You played poker... with Charles Dickens's pet raven?' [...] 'Yeah, also did some ghostbusting with him...'" The Unquiet Dead.

Pg 4 "Then he whipped out his sonic screwdriver - a small sleek flourish of silver and blue curves" First seen in Fury From the Deep, first seen in this form in The Church on Ruby Rd.

Pg 6 "I don't know what the universe was doing when it designed humans. I mean... only one heart? Could never be me. Well. Was once, kind of..." The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

Pg 8 "Rome, been there, done that." The Romans.

Pg 10 "She knew the oxygen and mavity bubbles around the TARDIS would keep her safe" Wild Blue Yonder et al.

Pg 13 "And babe, I'm telling you, you haven't lived until you've had a Venusian deep-tissue massage." The Curse of Peladon, Venusian Lullaby, et al.

Pg 15 "'I hope this isn't another duck pond situ,' murmured the Doctor. 'That wouldn't be cute.'" The Eleventh Hour.

Pg 18-19 "The Gardens of Kubuntu are one of the 700 ancient wonders of the universe." Death to the Daleks.

Pg 32 "'Cirque de Soleil have nothing on these lot,' Ruby said, in awe of the dancers as they performed mavity-defying feats of acrobatics." Wild Blue Yonder.

"It's not like I'm wearring those psychic earrings" Similar to the psychic paper, no doubt. (The End of the World et al.)

Pg 38 "It reminded him of the Aztec pyramids" The Aztecs.

Pg 54 The psychic paper makes an appearance (The End of the World et al).

Pg 57 "Virtual reality system and an anti-mav bed" Wild Blue Yonder.

Pgs 60-61 "He had done a lot of work to erase himself from history" The Inforarium, Asylum of the Daleks.

Pg 67 "It reminded her of one Halloween when she was a kid. Cherry, her gran, was conked out in bed, and her mum, Carla, was out." The Church on Ruby Rd et al.

Pg 159 "Something in him switched, an old persona growing dominant for a moment, senses he had tried to deny so many times - the senses of the Doctor of War." This is a reference to The War Doctor (The Name of the Doctor et al) but also echoes the line in Twice Upon a Time.

Pg 187 "Orphan 55? A mess. Paradise Towers? Stressful! And don't even get me started on Midnight..." Orphan 55, Paradise Towers and Midnight, you'll be shocked to learn.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES
None.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES
Mya, Nazari, Fran, Bia Toh, Bia Tatu, Empire.

CONTINUITY COCK-UPS
None.

PLUGGING THE HOLES [Fan-wank theorizing of how to fix continuity cock-ups]
N/A

FEATURED ALIEN RACES
Pg 20 The Yewans are tall and tanned, with shimmering, bioluminescent tattoos.

Pg 23/30 The Bia are short and slender, with orange skin but no tattoos.

Pg 46 The Wraiths are spectral, shadowy creatures that are a security system.

Pg 175 Empire, a gestalt entity that can generate multiple forms at once.

FEATURED LOCATIONS
Pg 9 Yewa, in the Chimandran Galaxy.

IN SUMMARY - Stacey Smith?
This is a deeply frustrating book. It has some moments of real wonder and worldbuilding in the delightful paradise and the vivid descriptions of the Yewans. But it commits rookie error after rookie error: if you can disambiguate Fala and Fran, you're a better reader than I am. Worse, one of them is with the Firebrand and the other the fighters, so good luck figuring out who is who. There's a character with a name far too close to "Nazi" for comfort. Worse, the last quarter is a mad rush of exposition, which absolutely does not pay off the buildup. There are also a couple of weird moments, such as when Ruby is confronted with her privilege and responds in a way that no person with privilege ever has, or the Doctor deciding everything is the fault of the patriarchy. These are fine sentiments to express (and I'm a queer trans lefty from wayback myself), but what they lack is any elegance or embedding them into the story, as opposed to just dropping them on the page like awkward turds. It's a shame, because my frustrations should not have overwhelmed what is otherwise a potentially really interesting story with a fascinating alien culture.