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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 . . .
Late post for this book because I'm FLYING through it!! I really love how their made up/story/game playing lives are interacting with and influencing their actually real lives. It is a really interesting concept that I've not come across before. Also.... This doll is HELLA CREEPY. 🙃
0Late post for this book because I'm FLYING through it!! I really love how their made up/story/game playing lives are interacting with and influencing their actually real lives. It is a really interesting concept that I've not come across before. Also.... This doll is HELLA CREEPY. 🙃
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0Dolls Bones, was a curious tale, but not enough actually focused on what I was expecting it to focus on.
We are introduced to 3, 12 year olds, who love making up stories and playing with their toys still. Everything changes one day when Zack says he longer wants to play, and the adventure of their lives get set into motion by Poppy.
Poppy has this doll, they call her The Queen, she is made of the finest porcelain, and Poppy says their is a ghost trapped inside the doll and they must find her grave site and bury her.
The story focuses more on the children and their adventure then it does the doll being possessed by a spirit of a dead girl. The bothersome thing was that the "doll" kept acting out, and people kept assuming there was a fourth girl with them, but none of this is ever elaborated on. Its never really explained if the doll really is moving about and thrashing the kids stuff [which is odd if the spirit living in the doll is asking to be buried and they are attempting to do this.] Weird things happen but no possible explanation ever gets told, and the kids never see it happen.
The story also focused a lot on the children and their anger towards one another, I don't mind character growth but when one of girl's crush on Zach is outed in a mean way and then a chapter or two later the boy goes ahead and asks the girl out, it just doesn't sit well with me. It made it come off as he only asked because he now knew and they were in a terrible situation. A lot of the fighting and arguing become repetitive for me, which killed the atmosphere of the story.
And then everything just kind of ends with their parents all being solemn about their kids having basically run away. None of them were angry which feels unrealistic, I would be scared, and angry if my daughter ran away, followed up by relieved.
Also they dig up a grave in broad daylight and no one sees this....
0Good, steady buildup to a climactic finish. The creep factor in this is great. Rare to find a truly unsettling MG book as an adult reader.
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