Really more 3.5 than 4, but I figured I'd give this volume the benefit of the doubt since parts of it are so good. Picking up right where Court of Owls left off, this entry in the New 52 Batman saga follows Bruce Wayne as he recovers from his last bout with the Owls and deals with a whole new onslaught from the group. I really dug the first half of this book, as it amped up from what was already a fantastic, mind-bendy storyline to a point where I genuinely believed Batman could lose. 
 However, as the book progresses, the shroud of mystery surrounding the Owls seems to dissipate and we're left with a pretty boring, been-there-done-that Mr. Freeze story that has pretty much nothing to do with the main plot, and then a final and very sudden-feeling wrap up to the Owls storyline. This wrap-up does something Batman comics do almost all the time, and every time it irks me: they make the whole thing about Batman and/or Bruce Wayne. I won't spoil the ending (unbelievable as it may be), but suffice it to say that this story of grand intrigue arcing all the way back to the inception of Gotham City, spanning multiple families and conspiring parties, ends up basically just being a whole thing aimed at Bruce Wayne specifically. It's the equivalent of if, every time Sherlock Holmes went out to solve a big mystery, it ended up being someone trying to take revenge on Sherlock Holmes. It's such a recurring theme in weak Batman stories that it immediately took me out of this mystery I'd been so invested in and made me not really care how it went. I think there's still some salvageable parts that could come to play later, but overall I found it to be a pretty disappointing ending to a great plot. Definitely hope Snyder's got more surprise in him than this.