Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger

Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger is a 2015 gothic fiction novel by V.C. Andrews based on her Dollanganger series.^[1] It is the second installment of a set of novels that are spin-offs to the Dollanganger Saga.^[2]^[3] It is a sequel to Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth.

Plot

The story is set after the last book in the Dollanganger series Seeds of Yesterday and Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth. A seventeen-year-old girl, Kristin Masterwood, has a father who has been hired to renovate the Foxworth Hall after it has been abandoned after Seeds of Yesterday. When accompanying him during his renovation period, she discovers the remains of Christopher Dollanganger's diary which recorded the events in detail of his and his siblings captivity in the attic in the first book Flowers in the Attic. Kristen and her boyfriend then go on to re-enact these events and more secrets from the previous books are revealed. They go to find out more about the family and the person rebuilding Foxworth Hall.

Summary

Kristin Masterwood's mother was distantly related to the notorious Foxworth family—but she died when Kristin was a child, leaving her daughter to wonder how the ancestral link might affect her. Now that Kristin is the sole possessor of Christopher's diary, the story of the abandoned estate has her enthralled. Watching Christopher and his sister Cathy's forbidden love blossom is overwhelming, and shocking revelations about the family are more potent than she ever could have imagined. And when her boyfriend urges her to give in to desires as tempting and dangerous as those from the attic, the twisted world of the Dollangangers becomes Kristin's own burning obsession....^[4]

References

↑ http://www.completevca.com/lib_diary_diary2.shtml
↑ "Two Flowers In The Attic Spinoff Novels Planned, Titled Christopher's Diary". cinemablend.com.
↑ "Two more Flowers in the Attic sequels are in the works". Melville House Books.
↑ V.C. Andrews. "Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger (Diaries, #2) by V.C. Andrews — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.

Works by V. C. Andrews

From 1987 ghost-written by Andrew Neiderman

Dollanganger Series	Flowers in the Attic (1979) Petals on the Wind (1980) If There Be Thorns (1981) Seeds of Yesterday (1984) Garden of Shadows (1986) Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth (2014) Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger (2015)

Casteel Series	Heaven (1985) Dark Angel (1986) Fallen Hearts (1988) Gates of Paradise (1989) Web of Dreams (1990)

Cutler Series	Dawn (1990) Secrets of the Morning (1991) Twilight's Child (1992) Midnight Whispers (1992) Darkest Hour (1993)

Landry Series	Ruby (1994) Pearl in the Mist (1994) All That Glitters (1995) Hidden Jewel (1995) Tarnished Gold (1996)

The Wildflowers series	Misty (1999) Star (1999) Jade (1999) Cat (1999) Into the Garden (1999)

Other novels	My Sweet Audrina (1982) The Orphans series (1998)

Film adaptations	Flowers in the Attic (1987) Rain (2006) Flowers in the Attic (2014) Petals on the Wind (2014) If There Be Thorns (2015) Seeds of Yesterday (2015)

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