BATMAN: NIGHTWALKER (D.C. ICONS, BOOK 2) (audiobook) by Marie Lu

 








Published by Listening Library in 2018.
Read by Will Damron.
Duration: 8 hours, 39 minutes.
Unabridged.


The books in the D.C. Icons series are a re-writing of the origin stories of D.C. Comics' iconic characters. To be fair, these YA stories are not complete re-writes. Instead, they are basically about the largely unexplored teen years of these characters (the exception being the 10 year run of the Smallville TV show featuring a teenaged Superman.) 

In this book we meet Bruce Wayne in the 12th grade and he is turning 18 - the age where he inherits the Wayne family fortune and the family business. He may be a legal adult, but he is still an impulsive teen. Bruce joins in on a police chase with a high-tech car created by Wayne Industries. He helps catch the bad guy but he gets arrested for getting in the middle of a police chase.

Wayne gets assigned community service in, of all places, Arkham Asylum. Can you imagine why anyone would assign anyone community service at Arkham Asylum? 

As expected, Bruce Wayne discovers something going on in Arkham that could mean the end of everything as he knows it...

This book requires a bit of suspension of disbelief (as noted above - who would put anyone assigned community service in Arkham?) but it was entertaining. We also meet a teenaged Harvey Dent, giving a bit of insight to his later incarnation as Two-Face. 

It does serve as a natural bridge to Bruce Wayne's eventual transformation to Batman and leaves the door open to more books. I know I would be up for reading more. 

I rate this audiobook 4 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: BATMAN: NIGHTWALKER (D.C. ICONS, BOOK 2) (audiobook) by Marie Lu.

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