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This book wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but I can’t say that I was disappointed. Having watched the batman cartoons growing up, and having seen every Batman movie of the last 30 years, I was expecting the caped crusader running around and beating up bad guys. What I got from Lu was much more cerebral. Much more about the psychology of reading people and understanding who they are. About digging deeper than what you see on the surface, and finding out what lies underneath.
If I were to have a complaint about Nightwalker, it’s that the pacing is a little slow for the “superhero” genre. Though it was there, I felt that there wasn’t quite enough ass kicking for it to feel like a superhero book. Also, I don’t feel like it took Bruce’s character quite far enough to give me the “Batman” feel. Where I was expecting a Batman origin story, I instead feel like we just got a snapshot of the journey…and I didn’t get the journey’s end that I was looking for.
But the characters and the plot were great. I was surprised by how much I came to enjoy the interactions between Bruce and Madeleine, even as I knew he was playing with fire. And seeing other cannon characters, such as Alfred, Lucius Fox, and Harvey Dent, was great. Overall, a fun read.