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Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu (Review #121)

"Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City.

The city's elites are being taken out one by one as their mansion's security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey.

Bruce Wayne is next on their list.

Bruce is about to become eighteen and inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Industries and the tech gadgetry he loves. But on the way home from his birthday party, he makes an impulsive choice and is sentenced to community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison that holds the city's most nefarious criminals. 

Madeleine Wallace is a killer... And Bruce's only hope.

The most intriguing inmate at Arkham is Madeleine, a brilliant girl with ties to the Nightwalkers. A girl who will only speak to Bruce. She's the mystery he has to unravel, but is he convincing her to divulge secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees?

Review:
Continuing our excavation into the DC Icons Series, our next journey is with Batman!

This was a very interesting read. Experiencing the Dark Knight as a teenager, and before he becomes the caped crusader is odd already, but one thing that stuck out to me about his character is his inability to be a teenager. I understand he is plagued with tragedy, we get it, but at the same time, plenty of teenagers have seen their fair share of struggle and still manage to be teenagers. It's just jarring to me that Bruce is in the setting of teenage-ness but lacks the capacity to be a part of it. 

Other than that, we see new characters as well as old, and we follow along an adult detective in the body of a teenage boy. That's essentially what this is. I go back and forth between the merits this book had and the character flaw that dominated the book. I don't know if it's the author's doing or the confines of the character she had to work with, but it was very hard to relate to the protagonist of the story!

Madeleine on the other hand was a great character. Yeah, sure she was basically a knock-off of Selina Kyle, but she was an enigma from the jump and I couldn't help but latch on to her. Honestly, figuring out her story and her motives throughout the book was what really drove me to read more. I won't give too much away, but we are ride or die for her until the end. I would honestly love to see her in comics and see how she'd fare in that universe. Overall, I have mixed feelings about the story, but have settled on general satisfaction.

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