Holly Black
Hardcover | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 3.69 | 23437 Users | 3880 Reviews
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| Title | : | Doll Bones |
| Author | : | Holly Black |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | May 7th 2013 by Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Horror. Mystery. Young Adult. Adventure |
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Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and stop being friends with Poppy and Alice. But one night the girls pay Zach a visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity . . .Specify Books Conducive To Doll Bones
| Original Title: | Doll Bones |
| ISBN: | 1416963987 (ISBN13: 9781416963981) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Zach, Alice, Poppy Bell, Tom Bell, Nate Bell |
| Setting: | Ohio(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2014), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (2014), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades 3-6 (2015), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2015), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High (2016) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2013), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014) |
Rating Out Of Books Doll Bones
Ratings: 3.69 From 23437 Users | 3880 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Doll Bones
I ended up having a good time reading this book, but I didn't love it. I often had a hard time believing these kids were twelve and not in their late teens, the crush between two of the main characters felt shoe-horned in, and the way Zach reacted to his dad throwing out his toys (refusing to tell his friend what happened and just closing off) seemed... I don't know. Extreme. Unnecessary. While the plot was fun, it felt like a book trying to achieve A Series of Unfortunate Events levels ofWhile this was an interesting read and even a bit creepy, it didn't completely grab me like I'd hoped it would. The romance in this book felt so out of place and unnecessary. It didn't do anything for me and I didn't find that it did anything for the plot. I also felt like the pacing of this book seemed a bit off. I am happy that I took the time to read this, but to me it just wasn't anything spectacular.
Sure, this book is about creepy dolls and bone china made with real bones, which would be reason enough to read it. But it's also a story about pretend games and story telling, how we need them, how we struggle to hang on to them as we get older, and how their role changes and doesn't change as we do. Lovely stuff that hits the right buttons for those of us who never gave up on playing pretend ourselves.
3.5/5I really enjoyed this book! I haven't had much luck with other Holly Black books in the past, so this one surprised me. It's a book that I would have loooooved as kid. I was super into spooky stories. I really liked both the characters and the writing. I just wish there'd been a little more ghost activity. The story felt like it was missing something for me. But, overall, I thought this was really cute and I had a lot of fun reading it.
Pretty boring. The characters weren't very interesting or likeable, all they did was snap at each other, and the MC was so unbelievably generic and dull. There was nothing remotely scary, creepy, adventurous or dramatic about the story, it was all so blah.The illustrations weren't impressive either, they didn't really add anything to the book.
Doll Bones is simpler than I expected. Elements of it were ambiguous, and those elements seem to mask a complexity that has not completely sunk in, but for now, for me, what I loved, or almost loved, or would have absolutely loved, remained undeveloped.Oh, well.Those undeveloped things include the interesting dynamic between Poppy, Zach and Alice. Zach narrates. They have been friends for years but theyre entering a time of change and their friendship seems unlikely to last. This was fascinating
I didn't place this on any of my shelves as it comes to us in the clothes of a ghost story but I would say that it's not truly that. Mostly I believe this is what I'd call a "coming of age story". The book is more the story of three young people growing up and trying to move from childhood into adulthood (with the cards often stacked against them) placed in the atmosphere of a ghost story.We meet the 3 young people that we will "travel" with as the book opens. A young man and two young women (or
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