Debbie Jones and Rachele Newman, the friends and boarding school roommates introduced in Laura Cooper Rendina's Roommates, return in this third installment of the Debbie Jones series, each spending the summer, in their different ways, on Cape Cod. Determined to earn some money, and to help her family pay for her senior year at Pine Ridge School, Debbie takes a job as a waitress at The Manse, an old-fashioned Victorian hotel and restaurant run by an old friend of her mother's; while Rachele, newly returned from her year studying art in Europe, and desperately hurt by her quarrel with Phil (Debbie's brother), goes to stay with her socialite mother and her new husband, and spends her days at the local yacht club. Unable to contact one another - Debbie having lost Rachele's address, and Rachele not knowing Debbie's - the two friends are each unhappy in their own ways, until a surprise encounter begins the ball rolling toward the day when all will be well...

Although it provided pleasant enough of a reading experience, I cannot say that I enjoyed Summer for Two quite as much as Roommates or Debbie Jones, probably because it was missing the school setting of those earlier books - something which drew me to Rendina's series in the first place. There were moments I appreciated - most particularly, the scene in which Rachele realizes just who Harry Devereaux really is, after seeing his dehumanizing snobbery directed at someone (Debbie) for whom she genuinely cares - but having finished it, I do not think I will ever want to pick it up again. Which, since my Inter-Library-Loan copy of it came from the Cincinnati Public Library - as always, my hats off to you, oh librarians! - is probably just as well. Still, despite my lukewarm reaction to this one, I do plan to track down the fourth and final title, My Love for One, to see how it all ends. ( )