3.5 starsTwo women, two timelines, what is their connection?Alex has left an abusive relationship with two children in tow. They go to Pine Ridge, an eco-village to start over. It's in a rural area and Alex believes that she and her children will be happy and safe there. There is belief, then there is reality. Renee is married to a farmer named Michael. They are having problems with their son...These two women don't sound like they have anything in common, and yet....This was a slow build, and I...

Rating: ⭐⭐ ½Genre: Mystery ThrillerA single mother (Alex) of two children is running away from an abusive boyfriend. Pine Ridge which is a quiet rural community seems to be the ideal place to live with her children safely. Her teenage son, Oliver is not happy at all with this place. Between her unsatisfied son, her teething little daughter, the new place, and incidents that keep happening Alex finds herself exhausted and has to deal with so many things at once. Was this place the right place aft...

So riveting I couldn’t go to sleep until reaching the end! This is a highly atmospheric, very unsettling—domestic/gothic/psychological/mystery, it’s got it all!—thriller, with some horror elements. It follows Alex, a single mother of two, that’s just moved her family to the secluded Australian eco-village of Pine Ridge for a fresh start. The Shadow House is told in two different time periods.. and in two women’s viewpoints.. Renee Kellerman and Alex, both mothers of teen sons. Renee’s family liv...

I loved this book- so creepy and suspenseful. This is my favorite kind of story, where even things that seem out of the realm of possibility end up being explained in a way that does not make me have to suspend my disbelief. It centers primarily on Alex, who leaves her abusive husband with her 2 kids to move to an eco-village. As soon as they arrive, creepy things start happening and she fears for their safety. You also get the story of Renee weaved in- Renee lived on the same plot of land a few...

4+ creepy starsA house- a bone - a doll - blood. Intriguing! Alex Ives arrives at Pine Ridge, a sustainable self build eco-village concept and slap bang in the middle of nowhere. In tow are her teenage son Oliver who has had issues at his Sydney school and he most definitely doesn’t want to be there with his hugely palpable negativity coming in tidal waves. She also has baby Kara who is teething leading to Alex being massively sleep deprived. Alex wants a fresh start, away from her ex Stuart , f...

⭐️5 Stars⭐️Oh my goodness I loved this from the first page, it was deliciously creepy, dark and addictive, it had my heart pounding and I couldn’t put it down. The author has nailed it and it deserves a well earned 5 Stars!The Shadow House by Anna Downes is set in Australia and is narrated by two mothers from two timelines, six years apart.Alex is a single mother of teenage son Ollie and baby daughter Kara, she escapes an abusive relationship and begins a new life at Pine Ridge. Pine Ridge is an...

I loved The Safe Place and was excited to get a copy of The Shadow House to read. The premise of the story had me intrigued and I spent a weekend devouring it. It is dark, creepy and unsettling. I could feel the characters fears and worries and had me turning pages way into the night to see what would happen next.Alex is looking for a new life. She wants better for herself and her children. She flees Sydney, packing up her life and moving to Pine Ridge. It is an idyllic, off the grid community a...

Alex Ives has arrived in Pine Ridge, an off-the grid eco village, hoping to hide out from her controlling husband and father of baby Kara. A few hours north of Sydney, the village is a peaceful place, built on an old flower farm and surrounded by woods. Predictably Alex’s teenage son Ollie is less than impressed with the isolated village, smack bang in the middle of nowhere, lacking all the places teenagers like to hang out. However, after Ollie left his last school in the shadow of a scandal, A...

Fleeing a toxic relationship, Alex, a single-mother of two, moves with her children, teenage-son, Ollie and infant-daughter, Kara, to the remote eco-village of Pine Ridge.Alex dreams of a fresh start for them. Things had gotten bad in their old life, with Ollie even having been expelled from school due to a scandal involving some classmates.Determined to make it work, Alex signs on to a 3-month commitment at Pine Ridge. They need this. They have to give it a fair shot.Once arriving, Alex begins

The Shadow House by Anna Downes is a 2022 Minotaur publication. Alex is starting over once again. She and her two children have left an abusive relationship to live in the rural community of Pine Ridge. Unfortunately, things get off to a bumpy start for Alex. Her teenage son, Oliver, is having trouble adjusting, while baby Kara, is keeping Alex awake around the clock. If that weren’t bad enough, the not always welcoming community also comes with its own legend about a witch that kidnaps children...

I listened to audiobook of The Shadow House by Anna Downes and found it be just the right amount of creepy and tense. It was pleasingly narrated by Natasha Beaumont. Anna Downes confessed at the end of The Shadow House how difficult and scary an undertaking it was for her to write The Shadow House, her second novel. She need not have worried so much because she was able to capture just the right balance between darkness, mystery, fear, hope and panic in this cleverly plotted book. The chapters a...

*https://mrsbbookreviews.wordpress.com‘There wasn’t a tiger. Of course, there wasn’t. But there was a lot of blood. The house was soaked in it.’International bestselling author Anna Downes returns with an intriguing new thriller. The Shadow House is filled with issues of trust, safety, protection, pressure and strain, as two mothers across two different timelines negotiate a threat to the safety of their respective families. The Shadow House is spine tingling read for fans of psychological thril...

The Shadow House by Anna Downes is a beguiling excursion into Australian gothic.The spooky story of a threatening presence in the bush, the appearance of threatening talismans and a series of strange marks carved into trees unfolds from the dual perspectives of two women, six years apart. Both are mothers to troubled adolescent sons, feeling a powerlessness as they struggle to communicate and protect their beloved children from the dangers and cruelty of the world. British-born protagonist Alex

Anna Downes' second novel is creepy, dark and downright scary at times. Tension builds just right and my heart was in my throat a few times. There are really two stories here - Renee's and Alex's, and the story is narrated by both of them. Both stories involve bones, dolls, and blood.Alex flees an abusive relationship and moves, with her teenage son Ollie and her baby daughter Kara, to an ecovillage community called Pine Ridge. The community seems welcoming, the leader is charismatic, and Alex i...

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com*www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr**4.5 stars**The Shadow House by Anna Downes. (2021). Single mum Alex has fled her abusive relationship and moved with her teenage son, Ollie, and baby daughter, Kara, to a rural ecovillage - Pine Ridge. It's idyllic: off-grid lifestyle, remote location, a welcoming (mostly) community and a magnetic founder (Kit). But Alex's arrival disturbs secrets, and she's shaken by a series of eerily familiar events that seem to be connected to th...