This Is Why They Hate Us

De: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrado por: Alejandro Ruiz

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Never mind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Never mind 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.

©2022 Aaron H. Aceves (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

This was everything

Quique’s chaotic energy was everything to me. This feels like a book I would have held so close to my heart in high school and I loved every second of it today. It does certainly get heavy at times, but it leaves you with this happy, hopeful feeling and that’s all I wanted.

Good read.

A simple story about finding out who you are and who you want to be with. The only thing missing was details after they found love.

Incredible and Real

I would recommend this book to anyone questioning and discovering their own identity. I wish I had a book like this when I was 17, but even 18 years later it resonated so much. The characters are like able, imperfect but so relate-able. Very powerful and honest

wattpad but better

as the header implies, this story reads (listens?) as a Wattpad story but in the most realistic and relatable way possible. every character feels like a living, breathing person, and all of the events of the story feel believable, and well-paced. a very sweet book full of emotions and laughs as well as tears and heartache.

the reader has a very smooth voice and gives recognizable personality and tones to each character consistently. really liked him!

wow, I mean, this was just the right amount of,

everything.
I mean it was so good. I really loved listening to it.
I thought it was the perfect length, it honestly reminded me of so much of what I've gone through in life, mental health wise.

Obsessed!!

Need more brown queer stories like these! Can’t wait for the next book to drop.

Just BEAUTIFUL!

An incredibly relatable and touching story. Narrator, Alejandro Ruiz brought so much life to these characters! I found myself in tears several times. Highly recommend!

Love it!

Now that I finish this book I feel that I would never find something this good somewhere else, I feel represented I feel seen.and I love this story so much and I wish I can read it over and over again.

I loved this book

Ive never been able to relate to a character more. Im in love with this story and the way its told; the characters, the experiences and the emotions are all executed wonderfully. the voice actor did an Amazon job. This is now my favorite book ever! I need a sequel now and more from this author.

Sweet story!

I love these coming of age, gay, romance novels. Aaron H. Aceves weaves a beautiful story with wit, charm, humor and honesty.