Another entirely OK Scott Snyder Batman volume. 
 The characters of Bruce and Gordon are the strong heart of the book, and it's certainly fun seeing Gordon as Batman, but we all know how this is going to end, and that takes a lot of the interest out of the story. 
 Bloom continues to be a problematic villain because he falls into the totally-invulnerable-until-the-plot-needs-otherwise category, which never works. There's a big reveal for the mastermind behind Bloom, and I have no idea who it is; then there's a promised big reveal for who Bloom really is, which is never carried out. 
 There is one absolutely brilliant Bruce Wayne issue in this comic. #48, I think, though DC never numbers their collected issues any more. It reads like a grounded Morrison issue, which is wonderful. But the rest of the volume: it's OK. 
 Probably better than its immediate predecessor, at 3.5 stars or so.