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Doll Bones

Holly Black

Start date: May 1, 2015

Finish date: May 31, 2015

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: YA Group Read - May 2015
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Group Read Archive 2014-16

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Oct 17, 2016 Rachel Bea rated it liked it

Shelves: books-of-2016, women-only, horror, young-adult, fall-into-reading, horror-i-read-in-2016

Poppy was a manipulative brat, borderline abusive IMO. generally the kids were unlikable and the story wasn't creepy. for example, like I don't get why the haunted doll would end up in a trash can hiding from the kids if she wanted them to bury her. I did like that it was about growing up and things changing, though. 2.5 stars tbh. ...more

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Jul 21, 2013 Stacey M rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, favorite, 2014, ssyra-2014-2015

The Doll Bones by Holly Black
This book is about three kids who acquire a haunted doll. Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends for a long time and they decide to go on a quest to discover who the ghost girl who is visiting and communicating with Poppy is and hat happened to her. This is a great coming of age story. The kids are in the painful stage of changing and growing up. When it is time to focus on becoming who you are and to start putting away childish things. They all struggle with what ...more

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Jul 31, 2018 Sean Harding rated it it was ok

Not one of my favourite outings from Holly Black, it was strange but rather uninvolving and not one that ever really grabbed my attention and certainly it was a struggle to hold it. Black is an intestine author no doubt, with a somewhat varied output but certainly uneven and this one was for me not her finest hour.

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