This Is Why They Hate Us, Aaron H. Aceves
This Is Why They Hate Us, Aaron H. Aceves
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This Is Why They Hate Us

Author: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrator: Alejandro Ruiz

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2022


Synopsis

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to meet a girl his parents are trying to set him up with. Luckily, Quique’s prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. There’s stoner-jock Tyler Montana, who might be just as interested in Fabiola as he is in Quique; straitlaced senior-class president, Ziggy Jackson; and Manny Zuniga, who keeps looking at Quique like he’s carne asada fresh off the grill. With all these choices, Quique is sure to forget about Saleem in no time. But as the summer heats up and his deep-seated fears and anxieties boil over, Quique soon realizes that getting over one guy by getting under a bunch of others may not have been the best laid plan and living his truth can come at a high cost.

About Aaron H. Aceves

Aaron H. Aceves is a bisexual Mexican American writer born and raised in East Los Angeles. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in publications such as jmww, Epiphany, and them. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin. For more information, visit AaronHAceves.com.

About Alejandro Ruiz

Alejandro Ruiz is a bilingual non-binary indigenous Mexican-American voice actor based in Los Angeles. Their voice can be heard on award-winning audiobooks, video games, Netflix and Cartoon Network animated series, podcasts for NPR and Wondery, commercials for Amazon, as the Spanish voice of the US Census, on National Geographic and Disney+, and as the voice of the U.S. Center for Disease Control's national HIV campaign in both English and Spanish.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aaron on September 18, 2023

Funny, touching, gay af. Need I say more? Edit (8/3/21): I'll say more. If you don't laugh and cry at least once while you read this, I have failed as an author. Edit (12/20/21): I should have this book memorized by now. But it still makes me emotional. Edit (3/25/22): I started reading my book again o......more

Goodreads review by Aiden on August 23, 2022

Aaron Aceves is a breakout new voice in YA that’s equal parts lyrical and hilarious. THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US is an earnest story full of heart and heartache that explores how terrifying it is to share every part of yourself with someone and the complexity of juggling multiple identities. THIS IS WH......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on January 08, 2023

This is Why They Hate Us was one of my most anticipated 2022 reads, and I don’t even know why. Maybe because of the intriguing title, because of the stunning bisexual cover, or because of the compelling synopsis? What I do know is that I was scared to start reading this book. But I hadn’t need to wor......more

Goodreads review by micah ➳ canonicallychaotic on September 08, 2022

quique my sweet chaotic bisexual son......more

Goodreads review by Celine on September 06, 2022

going to bed with a giant fucking smile on my face because !!!!!......more