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A review by alexauthorshay
The Killing 3 by David Hewson
3.0
Each book got smaller than the last, so in terms of being able to remember everything that happened, this book was the best. It was based more heavily on action than psychology or motive, so it was easier to follow along and remember which players were which.
Some of the characters seemed to have inconsistent personalities this go round though. I questioned several character choices both for character consistency reasons and for blatant obviousness. It takes the cops a very long time to catch onto certain things that I saw right away. And while the ending is a surprise, it feels a bit like a character consistency as well.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about the ending, or about the book as a whole. Very tired of having politicians brought into everything, especially because it was almost all the same ones from before. Lund and Borch's relationship seemed a bit contrived in its convenience, and I was definitely worried that, with her track record of partners in previous books, things would not turn out well for Borch at all (not because I cared about him at all, because I didn't. It was just a pattern I was hoping I wouldn't see again). Throwing in Mark out of nowhere adds to her drama a little bit but also seems contrived and, especially with how dismissive Lund is of personal matters, it could have been cut out entirely and made no difference at all.
For the number of pages this book had, overall it felt like not very much honestly happened. I related very little to the characters and felt the farthest from them of the three books. The plot was alright but could have been paced better, with several reductions. It also read too similarly to the first book and the Birk Larsen's case. The connections were done on purpose, since Lund pulls that file and starts going through it again, but it felt like a rehash of the same thing done over again, and, as with any other series, the effect is lost the second time around.
Some of the characters seemed to have inconsistent personalities this go round though. I questioned several character choices both for character consistency reasons and for blatant obviousness. It takes the cops a very long time to catch onto certain things that I saw right away. And while the ending is a surprise, it feels a bit like a character consistency as well.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about the ending, or about the book as a whole. Very tired of having politicians brought into everything, especially because it was almost all the same ones from before. Lund and Borch's relationship seemed a bit contrived in its convenience, and I was definitely worried that, with her track record of partners in previous books, things would not turn out well for Borch at all (not because I cared about him at all, because I didn't. It was just a pattern I was hoping I wouldn't see again). Throwing in Mark out of nowhere adds to her drama a little bit but also seems contrived and, especially with how dismissive Lund is of personal matters, it could have been cut out entirely and made no difference at all.
For the number of pages this book had, overall it felt like not very much honestly happened. I related very little to the characters and felt the farthest from them of the three books. The plot was alright but could have been paced better, with several reductions. It also read too similarly to the first book and the Birk Larsen's case. The connections were done on purpose, since Lund pulls that file and starts going through it again, but it felt like a rehash of the same thing done over again, and, as with any other series, the effect is lost the second time around.