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''Dark Jenny is the third book in the ''Literature/EddieLaCrosse'' series. It was released in 2011.
The book mostly consists of a large {{Flashback}} to a time before the first book (but with Eddie telling the story to his friends in the present as a FramingDevice). Eddie was performing a minor job in the island kingdom of Grand Braun, and would mostly like to just leave again, but gets caught up in local intrigue when Queen Jennifer is accused of murder and adultery — with some saying that he himself was involved, to boot. Since the whole thing could easily turn to civil war, he's ordered to sort it out whether he likes it or not.
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!!''Dark Jenny'' provides examples of:
* DarkerAndEdgier: not that the series is exactly a sunlit meadow in springtime at the best of times, but the sheer ''scale'' of hearbreak and devastation that occurs over the course of the plot easily makes ''Dark Jenny'' the most harrowing installment
* ForegoneConclusion: Eddie's flashback of visiting Grand Braun shows it to be a beacon of civilisation and good government. However, the FramingDevice which introduces that flashback tells us that in the present, Grand Braun is "primarily known as the site of the most vicious ongoing civil war in the world", and that "more than half its population had fled or been killed, and the land was overrun with invaders, mercenaries and pirates". As such, we know quite well that things are going to go downhill, and that Eddie will probably be involved somehow. Not to mention, if you were reading ''Burn Me Deadly'' carefully, you might remember a couple of throwaway references to Grand Braun and Dark Jenny.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: it's right there in the [[spoiler: ''title''. The main reason to have a name paired with an identifier - like say, 'dark' paired with 'jenny' is because there is more than one person by that name!]]
* GeniusBonus: given the WholePlotReference (see below): if you've read Creator/MercedesLackey's book {{Literature/Gwenhwyfar}}, or are otherwise familiar with the Welsh tradition that [[spoiler: King Arthur had more than one queen named Guinevere]] the twist that there are [[spoiler: two Queen Jennifers]] might not be so shocking to you.
* WholePlotReference: The plot has extensive parallels to the story of Myth/KingArthur. Grand Braun is basically Britain (and its capital, Nodlon, is an anagram of London). Marcus Drake is Arthur; Elliot Spears is Lancelot. Belacrux is Excalibur (a near-anagram). There's a Merlin, a Morgan le Fay, and so forth. Perhaps the major difference is that [[spoiler:there are secretly two Guineveres]]. Or not: see GeniusBonus above.
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''Dark Jenny is the third book in the ''Literature/EddieLaCrosse'' series. It was released in 2011.
The book mostly consists of a large {{Flashback}} to a time before the first book (but with Eddie telling the story to his friends in the present as a FramingDevice). Eddie was performing a minor job in the island kingdom of Grand Braun, and would mostly like to just leave again, but gets caught up in local intrigue when Queen Jennifer is accused of murder and adultery — with some saying that he himself was involved, to boot. Since the whole thing could easily turn to civil war, he's ordered to sort it out whether he likes it or not.
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!!''Dark Jenny'' provides examples of:
* DarkerAndEdgier: not that the series is exactly a sunlit meadow in springtime at the best of times, but the sheer ''scale'' of hearbreak and devastation that occurs over the course of the plot easily makes ''Dark Jenny'' the most harrowing installment
* ForegoneConclusion: Eddie's flashback of visiting Grand Braun shows it to be a beacon of civilisation and good government. However, the FramingDevice which introduces that flashback tells us that in the present, Grand Braun is "primarily known as the site of the most vicious ongoing civil war in the world", and that "more than half its population had fled or been killed, and the land was overrun with invaders, mercenaries and pirates". As such, we know quite well that things are going to go downhill, and that Eddie will probably be involved somehow. Not to mention, if you were reading ''Burn Me Deadly'' carefully, you might remember a couple of throwaway references to Grand Braun and Dark Jenny.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: it's right there in the [[spoiler: ''title''. The main reason to have a name paired with an identifier - like say, 'dark' paired with 'jenny' is because there is more than one person by that name!]]
* GeniusBonus: given the WholePlotReference (see below): if you've read Creator/MercedesLackey's book {{Literature/Gwenhwyfar}}, or are otherwise familiar with the Welsh tradition that [[spoiler: King Arthur had more than one queen named Guinevere]] the twist that there are [[spoiler: two Queen Jennifers]] might not be so shocking to you.
* WholePlotReference: The plot has extensive parallels to the story of Myth/KingArthur. Grand Braun is basically Britain (and its capital, Nodlon, is an anagram of London). Marcus Drake is Arthur; Elliot Spears is Lancelot. Belacrux is Excalibur (a near-anagram). There's a Merlin, a Morgan le Fay, and so forth. Perhaps the major difference is that [[spoiler:there are secretly two Guineveres]]. Or not: see GeniusBonus above.
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