Doll Bones by Holly Black ~ A Review

Doll Bones by Holly Black

Published: 7th May 2013, Margaret K. McElderry Books

Length: 256 pages (Kindle edition)

Genre: Children’s, Young Teen, Horror, Supernatural, Mystery

Where Did I Get It? Received for review from NetGalley

Summary (from Goodreads): Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her.

But they are in middle school now. Zach’s father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she’s been having dreams about the Queen—and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave.

Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay the Queen’s ghost…