Full disclosure: Batman's not my fave (exceptions: Batman '66 and Lego Batman), but I like Marie Lu and I like the trend of YA superhero prose novels, so I checked this out and enjoyed it honestly way more than I thought I would.

Like Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman novel before it, it does a great job of diversifying Bruce Wayne's world with great side characters of color, including here the compelling villain (OR IS SHE). It also brings in complex ideas of surveillance justice (CLOSE ARKHAM ASYLUM) while still being like....a Batman story (ARKHAM ASYLUM WILL NEVER CLOSE).