And Poppy is desperate for the game to go on, unchanged and unchanging. The Queen, a porcelain doll with vacant eyes and blond ringlet curls, presides over the kingdoms from her position in Poppy’s mom’s glassed-in cabinet.īut now, things are changing.
For years, the three best friends have played a continuous, ever evolving game of make-believe embracing fictional kingdoms, characters and allegiances, using toy figurines and hastily assembled objects to stand in for the real thing.
In Holly Black’s newest middle-grade novel, “Doll Bones,” the main characters, Zach, Poppy and Alice, are at that intermediate stage between childhood and adolescence, when alliances shift and friendships subtly develop into something more, when children outgrow identities as quickly as they outgrow clothing, when boys and girls sometimes appear awkwardly patched together with emotional and physical features from various stages of development, like an evolutionary experiment gone haywire.
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