A review by mhoffrob
Cape May by Chip Cheek

3.0

Enjoyable and a quick read, "Cape May" presents honeymooners Henry and Effie visiting Cape May in the fall, when the town and the beach are practically deserted. Effie chose to bring Henry to the childhood summer place where she visited her Aunt and made many happy memories, but finds it a different place in the fall. Soon, the encounter someone else in for a weekend, and there time turns drunken and dangerous. Their neighbors throw parties and drink to excess; sail and dance; and draw them into a very different word than there home near Macon, GA. In the end it's a bit of a coming of age story and a family drama, although the ending wraps up a little too quickly and covers decades of their lives in mere pages.

WARNING: Some passages include very mature content and discussion of sex.