Sebastian by P.D. Cacek

Who doesn’t like a good creepy doll horror story? Well, Sebastian looked like it was going to be one of those, but it held the creep factor way down in favor of a family drama.
I didn’t mind it since I’m a fan of subtlety, literary horror and the author, but it’s easy to see how it may not work for more action-minded genre fans.
There is a doll. It’s kinda creepy. It’s meant to be a company and an art subject for a well-known photographer. Well-known enough so that flights of whimsy may and will be excused. At least, by others. For her son, it’s kind of difficult to deal with but he does.
Technically, Sebastian isn’t a doll, he’s a (faceless) manikin. And yes, there is a difference. Is he creepy? Well, no, not really, he’s more along the lines of Winston of the Travels with My Father fame.
So maybe don’t read it for the horror, at least not exclusively) although the ending is delicious. Maybe just read it as a literary novel, a mother/son relationship drama, or just a good slow-boiling story. Thanks Netgalley.