Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

Batman: Nightwalker (DC Icons, #2)

by Marie Lu

The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu.

Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal's getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase.
Sentenced to community service in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city's most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City.
She's a mystery Bruce has to unravel but can he trust her? The Nightwalkers target the rich, and Bruce's name is next on their list.

Reviewed by readingwithwrin on

4 of 5 stars

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"If he was just Bruce Wayne, the boy next door, would anyone care?"


I've never been a big fan of Batman for some reason. I don't know why, but he's just never been one of my favorite superheroes.
Having said that though, I really liked this book. It was fun and entertaining all while showing a teenage millionaire doing good for a change and not just partying all the time. Wayne guardian Alfred is also one of my favorite characters ever.

"Either you hid from reality or you dealt with it. And over time, Bruce had built up a shield, had negotiated an unspoken truce with the press."

One problem I did have with this story is letting an eighteen-year-old who is in trouble cleaning an Asylum (this reminded me so much of how Aria from pretty little lairs volunteered at Radley to get info, and everyone was okay with it), like why is this a thing? It seems way to dangerous in my opinion and not very smart on the authorities part. Also using him to get info was just not smart considering the person is known to be a trickster.

"You should suspect me more than anyone... I may have the information you need, but you're the one who needs to use it."

His friends were so great as well, they truly wanted the best for him and didn't care about anything else. I loved that friendship was a big part of this novel and how it stayed that way for them.

The ending was so much of surprises that I was not expecting and I loved it! It made me give this book four stars and I would love to see more of this Batman in the future.

I think part of the reason I liked this book so much is because it helped me get out of a small reading slump I was in.

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