First Impression Friday | Batman: Nightwalker

Welcome to another First Impression Friday. In case this is your first time, here’s the rundown:

• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions and predict what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
• Link back to Storeys of Stories so I can enjoy reading all the First Impression Fridays out there!

Enough about rules! Let’s talk about Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu!

Despite the fact that I have Legend and Warcross in my possession, this is my first Marie Lu book. And so far, it’s awesome.

To be fair, this book had a real leg up from page one. I’ve been a Batman fan my entire life. There was no ‘getting to know you’ phase for this book. Familiar characters, familiar setting, the book even opens with Bruce Wayne tearing around the streets of Gotham in a badass car. COME ON!

What I’ve been digging though, is that there’s enough new stuff to with the old. Characters I’m meeting for the first time that are really intriguing.

My prediction:

4 stars. I’d say 5, but it’s a Bruce Wayne story, not a Batman story…

Fun fact about this post: My local library bought this book on my recommendation, so I was the first one to get to borrow it!