ARC REVIEW Should've Been You by Nicole McLaughlin

Should've Been You is book three of Nicole McLaughlin's Man Enough series but can be read as a stand alone. I think the blurb was a little misleading with this book, it says, 

"National Guardsman Jase Beckford wants to live a quiet life raising cattle and taking care of his mother. His childhood friend and neighbor Hannah is still his best friend, but when he walks into the Walters house one morning and sees her twin sister Becca for the first time in five years, he wonders if he missed out on something special."

Part of that is true he is a National Guardsman and he wants to raise his cattle and he's been best friends with Hannah, but it doesn't tell you that he's been harboring feelings for her sister this whole time. Or that Hannah is what I would call an attention whore, someone who has to have all the attention on her to the point she manipulates people so she gets her way. Hence why Jase and her are friends and nothing ever happened with Becca. To the point that Becca went away for college and hardly ever comes back home. It's not even like Hannah and Jase are an item, she can date and sleep with other people but she gets possessive when Jase does. Hannah basically leads Jase on a string with friendship as their main staple but with the idea that maybe they will settle down with each other someday. Until Hannah gets engaged to some hipster douche does Jase finally feel like he can move on with his life away from Hannah. Becca comes home for the holidays and sees Jase for the first time in five years and all the old feelings she hoped she was over are back and stronger than ever, only one problem is that she's dating another guy and expects to gets engaged over the holiday. Only after Hannah's surprise engagement do Jase and Becca talk and find out what Hannah did to them all those years ago and all that confessing leads to a kiss. Becca feels guilty over it she rushes home to tell her boyfriend what she did only to find out he cheated on her first and it ends. When Becca finally returns to her dad's house for Christmas with the news that she's single again Jase finally gets the feeling that they can finally start something but between Hannah and the sudden appearance of Becca's ex it turns out to not be as easy as that.

Overall, it had a nice ending and Hannah really seemed to turn over a new leaf at the end but the characters were all a mess and I really didn't empathize with them at all.