Comfort Fiction

Lately I have been craving what I like to call 'comfort fiction'.  Stories that involve often dysfunctional families who grow apart and come back together and are full of love, family, and friendship. 'Comfort fiction' doesn't take long to read and you just feel a sense of calm and happiness during the story and after you have finished it.  You often feel the urge to relocate to where the story takes place (more often then naught, a small town where everyone knows everyone) and to meet and befriend these people.  I have officially found a new 'comfort fiction' author in Sherryl Woods and her Chesapeake Shores series.

This series takes place in the small community of Chesapeake Shores and centers around the O'Brien family.  Each novel centers on a different family member (though all the rest of the family appears in each novel).  Besides the central story, revolving around whichever O'Brien Woods has chosen to write about, there is always this idyllic town present.  I love reading about the small businesses, the relationships between townspeople, and the beautiful bay that the town sits upon.

This series is 'comfort fiction' at its best.  The reader is able to escape into this lovely town and into the lives of this family for a peaceful afternoon.

Sherryl Woods' Chesapeake Shores Series 

1. The Inn at Eagle Point
2. Flowers on Main
3. Harbor Lights
4. A Chesapeake Shores Christmas
5. Driftwood Cottage
6. Moonlight Cove
7. Beach Lane
8. An O'Brien Family Christmas