Comfort Books... Anyone?
- Queen Dee
- Mar 12, 2024
- 3 min read
Have you heard of comfort movies? Movies that you can watch when you're feeling down, to help you fall asleep, movies that quiet your mind in times of stress, movies that bring you joy and contentment (because yes, they are two different feelings) , and just your favorite movies that you always go back to. If you've never heard of comfort movies... now you have. The next time you turn on Monsters Inc. and relive happy moments of your childhood, just know that you're indulging in a comfort movie. Every time I turn on Pride & Prejudice (The one with Kiera Knightley, of course), I do it knowing that I'm going to quiet my mind and destress in a way that exercising or indulging in sweet doesn't always provide.
Now let's think about 'Comfort Books', same concept but in book form. Books that quiet the mind, books that you always come back to, books that bring you such joy and contentment, and books that can help change any mood because they're so familiar(like a best-friend). I want to talk about those books and share some of my favorite individual books as well as series that I always come back to.
In no particular order:
Fallen Crest High by Tijan
I have been rereading this first book, not the whole series, just the first book over and over again since first reading it back in high-school. There's something about Samantha and the way that she's written that just resonates inside of me and keeps me coming back to reread it over and over again. There's something about the way that Mason loves her, selfishly (I say selfishly because he wanted her and did not care that his brother might have wanted her too.), and with such intensity, that draws me back in every-time.
Significance Series (Significance, Accordance, Defiance, Independence) by Shelly Crane
This series is a series that I can read anytime. It drew me in the first time I read it with this concept that one touch can awake a bond to your soulmate. The whole world that they're living in, is modern, they are part of normal society, but the society of "Aces" (That's what they call their people) had almost fully given up on the idea that they would imprint. People had started to get married to people from other "clans" because of how long they had gone without imprinting. Then imprinting comes back with the two main characters and everybody loses their minds. The heroine gets kidnapped (in a way multiple times) and a whole clan of people (let's be honest, they're the villains) tries to 'recreate the imprint for themselves, tests on humans, all that she-bang. There's a prophecy. It just draws you in. I love the familiarity of the excitement at this point because I've read it so many times.
The Prophesized Series (Blackmoon Beginnings, Scorching Secrets, Descending Darkness, & Reaching Retribution) by Kaitlyn Hoyt
When I read this series, it sucks me in so fast, that I HAVE to read all of the books in the series before I can return to reading new books. The action, the adventure, the sheer craziness of everything that happens in the book. Enemies that become 'friends' in the end. The trauma of what happened to her mother and the shocking revelations about her father. The push and pull of her relationship with the male main character. The "will they or won't they?" that is so prevalent in the first book. The friends that turn enemy, out of pettiness or protection of family, it's hard to tell, and I think that's another draw too. (The "Wait, what? I thought this person was in love with this person and isn't she this girl's twin sister?!") Well written, truly a gem of a series, and one of my favorites.
These are the books that I read when I need a break from new books. (If that makes sense.) Sometimes I don't want to read something new. Sometimes I want to lay down or sit down on my couch bring up a book that I know, I KNOW, will pull me in and keep me engaged but is also familiar and comforting and just RELAX for a couple of hours while I get lost in a familiar tale. A familiar story.
Now I invite you to share some of your comfort books or comfort series!
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