"I am the Night"

I still remember how, as a boy, I came across this book by Gardner in the library. He took it and got lost in his room, reading page after page, plunging into the dark and gloomy world of Gotham.

This is a great novel where the author shows the noir Batman, sullen and still experiencing the death of his parents in early childhood.

I don't know what was created earlier: this novel or Tim Burton's film, but the book describes everything much deeper. You read about what you can't see on the screen, you get into it, you understand the motivation of the characters. On the one hand, a billionaire who creates an image of a simpleton and a klutz (more like Clark Kent), on the other — a dangerous avenger in a bat mask. And he is opposed by probably the most iconic and dangerous opponent, Jack Napier, aka the Joker, who in this incarnation is a gangster who, after an accident, becomes a mad joker.

I really liked Gardner's work. Atmospheric, gloomy, in the spirit of the times. An excellent description of an alternative universe, where everything is somewhat exaggerated, but the work and the plot only benefit from this.

10 out of 10