BUT I HATE HIM BY PAGE POWARS // blog tour book feature: you need to add this queer academic rivals to lovers to your TBR stat!!!

Oops I did it again. Turns out moving and working make me a bit of a zombie but enough of that because I want to screech about how excited I am to not only be on this tour but also read this book because omfg?!?!?!?!

Without further ado, welcome to my stop on the But I Hate Him tour <3<3<3

 

Title: But I Hate Him
Author: Page Powars
Page count: 304
Date published: 25 August 2026
Genre: Young adult contemporary romance

 

Synopsis:

Rory is academic royalty.

As the heir to the most successful tutoring company in the world, he can be nothing less than perfect if he wants to gain his parents’ approval. So it’s simple. Rory studies harder than anyone else. He does not make mistakes. And he never loses.

Except to Luca Melendez. The infuriatingly good-looking hockey player who wins every academic competition without even trying.

When Rory has a very public meltdown, throwing a smoothie at Luca and shattering his own public image in the process – it feels like one more thing Luca ruined.

To salvage his reputation, Rory has his sights set on winning the most cutthroat academic camp in the country, BRAIN. There is nothing standing between Rory and the final medal.

Until, Luca Melendez shows up.

This means war and Rory has the perfect plan: Make Luca fall in love with him.

And then break Luca’s heart right before the final competition.

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Big thanks to Colored Pages Book Tours for having me on the tour and to Fierce Reads for the eARC via Netgalley! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

🏒 queer YA romance

🏒 academic rivals to lovers

🏒 grumpy/sunshine

🏒 he’s a hockey player

🏒 trans representation

 

Page Powars is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Indie bestselling author of But I Hate Him, And They Were Roommates, and more gay books for both teenagers and adults. He was raised by video game lore that requires stringboard analyses to understand. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner.

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