The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

By: Adam Sass

Narrated by: Max Meyers

A charming YA rom-com perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue and What If It’s Us.

Micah Summers runs a popular Instagram full of drawings of his numerous imaginary boyfriends (ninety-nine so far)—though he's never had a real boyfriend before. But when a meet-cute with Boy 100 goes wrong, Micah embarks on a Prince Charming-like quest throughout Chicago to find true love—for real this time.

Will Boy 100 be the One?

Micah is rich, dreamy, and charming. As the “Prince of Chicago,”—the son of local celebrity sports radio host known as the King of Chicago—he has everything going for him. Unfortunately, he’s also the prince of imaginary meet-cutes, since he’s too nervous to actually ask boys out.

Instead, Micah draws each crush to share on Instagram with a post about their imaginary dates. Ninety-nine “boyfriends” later, his account is hugely popular, and everyone is eagerly awaiting Boy 100. So is Micah. He’s determined that Boy 100 will be different. This time, Micah will sweep the boy off his feet, for real!

So when Micah flirts with a hot boy on the L who’s wearing a vegan leather jacket and lugging a ton of library books, he is sure this is Boy 100. But right before he can make his move and ask for the boy’s number, the guy rushes off the train, leaving behind his pumpkin-embroidered jacket. The jacket holds clues to the boy’s identity, so Micah and his friends set off on a quest to return it. Along the way, Micah will discover that the best relationships aren’t fairy tales. In fact, the perfect fit—and true love—might be closer than he thinks.


* This audiobook contains a downloadable PDF of the images included in the Epilogue.

Stellar performance!

Max Meyers absolutely swept me away with their dynamic, soaring narration of this sweet romcom!

Oh Micah!

The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers was such an enjoyable book! I adored Adam Sass's debut novel, Surrender Your Sons, and had been patiently waiting for his sophomore offering, and I'm thrilled to say it was worth the wait. It was messy and sweet, and everything you'd want in a young adult novel about first love.

Micah wants to be in love so badly, it's really quite endearing. He's on a mission to find boyfriend #100, the one he hopes will be real this time, not just a sketch on his Instagram page. After a chance meeting on the L, he thinks he might just have found the one, What follows is an entertaining romp through the city, as Micah, with a little help from his friends, tracks down BF #100.

Micah had all these hopes and dreams about what it would be like to be in love, but he slowly comes to realize the fairytale might not be all it's cracked up to be, and he has to rethink everything he thought he wanted.

I just have to say, Elliot is the sweetest little cinnamon roll, ever!

I liked that this story was messy and chaotic, it made it that much more realistic. It was also sweet and funny and heartfelt. I think Adam perfectly captured what it's like to be a teen falling in love for the first time.

Max Meyers is a new to me narrator and I really enjoyed his performance. He sounded age appropriate, not like someone changing their voice to sound younger. He did a great job with all the different characters he had to voice, without making any of them sound over the top or like he was trying too hard.

modern cinderella story

really got you in the feels. I love it. slow start and abit triggering for emotion abuse but really great book and narrator

Waste of a credit

I almost returned it a few times but I tried to stick with it. The narrator was driving me nuts with his whiny voice. The storyline was hokey and so drawn out.

Charming

If you know you’re fairy tales, you know where this one goes. Not so much a surprising twist as much as an obvious story structure, but the journey is cute. The good: large cast of characters all with their own storylines to give enough action the keeps you interested. The way fairytales are woven in is romcom material at its best. The bad: we verge away from charismatically cute into painfully naive and childish sometimes. I can’t say I was particularly rooting for the main character so much as I was just waiting for him to figure his shit out. Not a time waster, but not a heavy thinker. I will say that the performance of the narrator was playing a bit too young for me to connect fully, but generally I was able to look past it.

Tl;dr: this was fairytale fluff and has the makings of a very cute romcom, if you’re into that.